Homothyrea inornatipennis Gahan 1903
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Homothyrea inornatipennis Gahan, 1903: 269. Type locality: ‘Sokotra: Hadibu plain’.
Published record. Sokotra, 10.16 Dec. [18]98, Hadibu plain, W. R. O.Grant, Lectotype, BMNH (ANTOINE 1993).
Material examined (112 adult specimens). Yemen, Soqotra Is., 22.xi.2003, ca 20–170m, Suq, E env. – sand dune, N12°40′02′′ E54°03′45′′ (GPS), David Král lgt., Yemen – Soqotra 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král, 2 spec. in NMPC; Yemen, Soqotra Is., 5.–6.xii. 2003, Noged plain, Qaareh (waterfall), 57 m, N12°20′10′′ E 53°37′56′′ (GPS), David Král lgt., Yemen – Soqotra 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král, 3 spec. in NMPC; same data but Jan Farkač lgt., 1 spec. in NMPC; Yemen, Soqotra Is., 5.–6.xii. 2003, Noged plain (sand dunes), 11 m, N12°21′09′′ E54°01′47′′ (GPS), David Král lgt., Yemen – Soqotra 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král, 18 spec. in NMPC; same data but Jan Farkač lgt., 26 spec. in CULS, 23 spec. in NMPC; same data but Petr Kabátek lgt., 18 spec. in NMPC; Yemen, Soqotra Is., 6.–7.xii.2003, Noged plain, Wadi Ireeh, 95 m, N12°23′11′′ E53°59′47′′ (GPS), David Král lgt., Yemen – Soqotra 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král, 9 spec. in NMPC; Yemen, Soqotra Is., 9.xii.2003, Qalansiyah env., Ditwah (lagoon), 23m, N12°41′42′′ E 53°30′08′′ (GPS), David Král lgt., Yemen – Soqotra 2003 Expedition; Jan Farkač, Petr Kabátek & David Král, 5 spec. in NMPC; Yemen, Socotra Island, 10.–11.xi.2010, Noged plain (sand dunes), Sharet Halma vill. env., 12°21.9′N, 54°05.3′E, 20 m, Jan Batelka leg., 26 spec. in JBCP; same data but Jan Bezděk leg., 2 spec. in NMPC; same data but Jiří Hájek leg., 7 spec. in NMPC.
Natural history. This species is probably associated with sandy habitats, including sand dunes. The above material was taken predominantly from flowers of Asteraceae, trees and shrubs of Adenium Roemer & Schultes, Tamarix Linnaeus and Mimosoideae (formerly referred to as genus Acacia Miller).
Distribution. Endemic to the Socotra Island, see map on Fig. 1.
Remark. Old records of Homothyrea helenae from the Socotra Island (WATERHOUSE 1881, TASCHENBERG 1883) are most likely related to H. inornatipennis. These records come from the time when H. inornatipennis had not yet been described and more recent records (MIKŠIĆ 1982, SMETANA 2006) only seem to repeat the older sources.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CULS, NMPC , JBCP , NMPC , R, BMNH
- Material sample ID
- ANTOINE 1993
- Event date
- 2003-11-22 , 2003-12-05 , 2003-12-06 , 2003-12-09 , 2010-11-10
- Verbatim event date
- 2003-11-22 , 2003-12-05/06 , 2003-12-06/07 , 2003-12-09 , 2010-11-10/11
- Scientific name authorship
- Gahan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cetoniidae
- Genus
- Homothyrea
- Species
- inornatipennis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Homothyrea inornatipennis Gahan, 1903 sec. Šípek, Vendl & Král, 2012
References
- GAHAN C. J. 1903: Insecta: Coleoptera. Pp. 261 - 292. In: FORBES H. O. (ed.): The natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898 - 9. Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, xlvii + 598 pp.
- ANTOINE P. 1993: Mimetisme et resemblance: le genre Homothyrea Kolbe (Coleoptera: Cetoniidae). Sciences Nat Bulletin 79: 22 - 26.
- WATERHOUSE C. O. 1881: On the coleopterous insects collected by Prof. I. Bailey Balfour in the island of Socotra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 469 - 478 + plate XLIII.
- TASCHENBERG O. 1883: Beitrage zur Fauna der Insel Sokotra, vorzuglich nach dem von Herrn Dr. Emil Riebeck aus Halle a. S. gesammelten Materiale zusammengestellt. Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft 56: 157 - 185.
- MIKSIC R. 1982: Monographie der Cetoniinae der palaarktischen und orientalischen Region. Coleopter: Lamellicornia. Band 3, Systematischer Teil: Cetoniini I. Teil. Forstinstitut in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 530 pp.
- SMETANA A. 2006: Family Cetoniinae Leach, 1815. Pp. 283 - 312. In: LOBL I. & SMETANA A. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dasciloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 690 pp.