Zonitoschema oculatissima Peyerimhoff 1929
Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
- 2. Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Roma, Italy
Description
Zonitoschema oculatissima Peyerimhoff, 1929
(Figs 10–14, 24, 47, 48)
Zonitoschema oculatissima Peyerimhoff, 1929: 125.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀ (MNHN, Peyerimhoff coll.), ALGERIA: Tassili ouest, Tin Tahart, 25.iv.1928, Mission du Hoggar Février− Mai 1928.
Additional material examined. CHAD: 1 ♂ (MNHN, general collection), Tibesti, E. du Kohoz, 700 m, 10.−12. xi.1949, Ph. de Miré lgt.
Remarks. The holotype is partly dark brown; it is possible that this is not its natural colouration, and it was possibly caused by some treatment of the specimen after collecting.
Differential diagnosis. This species is closely related to Z. iranica (see above) and differs from it only in its more parallel pronotum; it is distinguishable from other Zonitoschema distributed in the Saharo-Sindian Region by the characters listed in the key. For comparison of this and other species with unicolour elytra, partially red femur and antennomere I yellow, see also above the remarks on Z. iranica and Z. kaszabi sp. nov.
Distribution. Described only from the holotype from western Tassili Mts. in Algeria, and recorded here from the Tibesti (Chad) for the first time; this species is probably widely distributed in the Sahara.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN
- Event date
- 1928-04-25
- Family
- Meloidae
- Genus
- Zonitoschema
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Peyerimhoff
- Species
- oculatissima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1928-04-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zonitoschema oculatissima Peyerimhoff, 1929 sec. Batelka & Bologna, 2014
References
- PEYERIMHOFF P. DE 1929: Nouveaux coleopteres du nord Africain. Soixante-septieme note. Fauna du Hoggar et des massifs voisins. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 1929: 123 - 126.