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Cetonia kemali DELPONT 1995

Description

Cetonia kemali DELPONT, 1995

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Antalya: 20.V.1984, ♀; Korkuteli, 700 m, 22.VI.2013, 3; Isparta: Çobanisa, 01.VII.1998, 3♀♀, 333.

N o t e s: This taxon is very close to C. delagrangei and, as pointed out by TAUZIN (2009b) it may represent a local form of the latter, or even an hybridogenetic taxon arising from C. delagrangei and C. aurata pallida. In addition, we note that the characters differentiating C. delagrangei from C. kemali are not well defined: the supposedly diagnostic condition of hairs on the head (that should be present in C. kemali and absent in C. delagrangei) is not constant, as we could study specimens obviously referrable to C. delagrangei with well-developed hairs on the vertex from Lebanon, Bsharri, as well as others from Topaktas (Hatay), as mentioned under this species. Also the purported differences in the morphology of the aedeagus illustrated by DELPONT (1995 figs. 6 and 18) are not reliable: in C. delagrangei specimens examined by us the apex of paramera (dorsal view) is not regularly curved until the apical hook as illustrated by DELPONT (1995: fig. 18), but has an evident notch parting the soft pre-apical part from the more sclerified area, producing a profile of the sclerified area much like that drawn for C. kemali (1995: fig. 6).

Notes

Published as part of Polat, Alper, Yildirim, Erol & Uliana, Marco, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the Glaphyridae and Cetoniinae (Scarabaeidae) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) fauna of Turkey, pp. 1505-1522 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (2) on page 1512, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5419712

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Biodiversity

Event date
1984-05-20 , 1998-07-01 , 2013-06-22
Verbatim event date
1984-05-20 , 1998-07-01 , 2013-06-22
Scientific name authorship
DELPONT
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cetoniidae
Genus
Cetonia
Species
kemali
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cetonia kemali DELPONT, 1995 sec. Polat, Yildirim & Uliana, 2017

References

  • DELPONT M. (1995): Contribution a l'etude du genre Cetonia FABRICIUS, 1775. Description d'une nouvelle espece (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Cetoniinae). - Lambillionea 95 (3): 340 - 344.
  • TAUZIN P. (2009 b): Contribution a la connaissance du genre Cetonia FABRICIUS, 1775 au Proche-Orient et Moyen-Orient. - Cetoniimania 6 (1): 3 - 24.