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Timarcha (T.) intermedia Petitpierre & Anichtchenko 2018, s. str.

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T. (T.) intermedia s. str.

ehlersi Weise, 1882b: 319 sericea Fairmaire et Allard, 1873: 153

Material: 2 ♂, 1f ♂: Cabo de Gata, San José, Almería, 10.02.2004, leg. A. Anichtchenko (AAC); 2 ♂: Cabo de Gata, 6 km N San José, Almería, 12.01.2004, leg. A. Anichtchenko (AAC); 2 ♂: Faro de Santa Pola, Alicante, 0 6.1963 leg. E. Petitpierre (EPC); 4 ♂: isla de Tabarca, Santa Pola, Alicante, 27.12.1973, leg. E. Petitpierre (EPC).

Description: THE ENdOpHALLI fROM THESE THREE dIffERENT LOCATIONS ARE ILLUSTRATEd (fIGS 4A–f). AS NOTICEd, THE BASAL pROTUBERANCES ARE MORE OR LESS pROMINENT BUT THE MAIN fEATURES ARE MAINTAINEd. IT dIffERS fROM THE MOUNTAINOUS SUBSpECIES, T. intermedia carmelenae, T. intermedia kiesenwetteri ANd T. intermedia lugens, BY A LESS SCLEROTIZEd fLAGELLUM.

Notes

Published as part of Petitpierre, Eduard & Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2018, Endophallus structure: a promising tool for cryptic species identification in Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), pp. 361-383 in Zootaxa 4446 (3) on page 365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1444255

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