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Mesomeloe coelatus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), C / José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
- 2. Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes, Paseo del Revellín 30, 51001 Ceuta, Spain.
Description
Mesomeloe coelatus (Reiche & Saulcy, 1857)
Meloe coelatus Reiche & Saulcy, 1857: 271. Type locality: “trouvé sur la rive gauche du Jordain”.
Meloe nudus Wollaston, 1864: 514. Type locality: “ Habitat in Fuerteventura, rarissimus” (Canary Islands).
The main morphological traits of M. coelatus were originally described by Reiche & Saulcy (1857); however, their description is relatively brief and does not include some important diagnostic characters such as those related to the shape of the protarsi or to the male genitalia. For practical purposes, and to facilitate the identification of the taxon, we provide below a detailed and expanded description based on the specimens studied.
Notes
Published as part of Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Ruiz, José L. & García-París, Mario, 2021, Taxonomic study of Mesomeloe coelatus (Reiche & Saulcy, 1857) (Coleoptera Meloidae: Meloini), with the description of an overlooked new species, pp. 365-381 in Zootaxa 5016 (3) on page 369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5222238
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.3.3 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5222238 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF0FF8AFFC0FFE5FFE4FFDFFFF6FF95 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/912AE258-E2D0-4C04-B446-111F2CF1F296 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C987F2FFC4FFE1FF73F966FB90F87C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Reiche & Saulcy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Meloidae
- Genus
- Mesomeloe
- Species
- coelatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesomeloe coelatus (Reiche, 1857) sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Ruiz & García-París, 2021
References
- Reiche, L. J. & Saulcy, F. H. C. (1857) Especes nouvelles ou peu connues de coleopteres recueillies par M. F. de Saulcy, membre de l'Institut, dans son voyage en Orient. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Series 3, 5, 169 - 276.
- Wollaston, T. V. (1864) Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London, 648 pp.