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Dorcadion pusillum subsp. tanaiticum Kasatkin 2002

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Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum Kasatkin, 2002

Figs 4P, 5L.

Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum Kasatkin, 2002: 277 –280 (original description). Type locality: Rostov area, Miasnikovsky distr., near Nedvigovka (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, ZIN).

Dorcadion pusillum tanaiticum; Lazarev, 2009: 198, 199.— Danilevsky, 2010: 251.— Lazarev, 2011: 257.

Description. This subspecies was described in detail and illustrated by its author (Kasatkin 2002).

Remarks. Unlike the nominal subspecies, in males of D. p. tanaiticum elytra have a darker pubescence with dark elytral stripes, almost as dark as the background pubescence and hence hardly visible; no dark spots of pubescence are present on elytra except the subsutural stripe which is visible only under certain angles of light.

Distribution. South of European Russia (Rostov area) (Fig. 7).

Material examined: S. Russia, Rostov region, Nedvigovka env., 19.IV.2008, leg. A. Abramov (3♂♂, 1♀) [MDCO].

Notes

Published as part of Dascălu, Maria-Magdalena, 2018, The subspecific structure of Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) pusillum Küster (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with description of two new subspecies from Romania, pp. 43-62 in Zootaxa 4442 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1301410

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MDCO , ZIN
Event date
2008-04-19
Verbatim event date
2008-04-19
Scientific name authorship
Kasatkin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Dorcadion
Species
tanaiticum
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Dorcadion pusillum subsp. tanaiticum Kasatkin, 2002 sec. Dascălu, 2018

References

  • Kasatkin, D. G. (2002) New subspecies of Dorcadion pusillum Kuster, 1847 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from South Russia. Russian Entomological Journal, 11 (3), 277 - 280.
  • Lazarev, M. A. (2009) Armenian Dorcadion (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of " cinerarium - group ". Studies and reports of district Museum Prague-East, Taxonomical Series, 5 (1 - 2), 197 - 220.
  • Danilevsky, M. L. (2010) Tribe Dorcadionini. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Fol. 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 241 - 264.
  • Lazarev, M. A. (2011) A revision of the taxonomic structure of Dorcadion cinerarium (Fabricius, 1787) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series, 7 (1 - 2), 255 - 292.