Drilus rectus Schaufuss 1867
| Main Authors: | Kobieluszova, Lucie, Kundrata, Robin |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6112432 |
Daftar Isi:
- Drilus rectus Schaufuss, 1867 (Figs 7, 27, 39) Drilus rectus Schaufuss, 1867: 84. Type material. Not available. Type locality. Beirut (Lebanon) and Antiochia (southern Turkey). Material studied. Male, " Turkey, 975 m, Toros Dağları, 9.6. 1987, Lundberg lgt." (LMBC); male, "South Turkey, prov. Hatay, Harbyie env., 400m, 36 °07'N 36 ° 10 'E, 31.3. 2010, E. & P. Hajdaj lgt." (PCRK); 2 males, " Turkey, 13.– 14.VI. 2003, Adana vil. (ca 45 km N), Boztahta env., 37 ° 23 ' N, 35 ° 15 ' E, 460 m, Jiří Hájek & Josef Hotový leg."(NMPC); male, " Turkey, 5. 1990, Iskenderun, leg. Krajčík, coll. general, National Museum Prague, Czech Republic " (NMPC); male, " TR mer., province Hatay, Karaçay, Hatay env., valley of Asi Nehri river, 7.5. 2005, J. Vávra leg." (PCJV). Diagnosis. Drilus rectus is similarly colored as D. akbesianus, D. nemethi and D. iranicus (Figs 1, 7, 12). It differs from D. akbesianus and D. nemethi in relatively smaller eyes and from D. iranicus in the lightly colored abdomen and shallower transverse groove near the frontal prosternal margin. Remarks. Drilus rectus occurs in Cyprus, southern Turkey and mainland Levant, which makes this species relatively widespread in comparison to the vast majority of its congeners. Similarly to other widely distributed Drilus species (D. concolor Ahrens, 1812 and D. flavescens; personal observation), the different populations and in some cases even the specimens within a single population vary in the body size, coloration, and several morphological characters including e.g. the head surface, shapes of frontal depression, pronotum and paramera (Schaufuss 1867, Kundrata et al. 2014 b). The detailed DNA-based study together with knowledge of the biology and ecology is important for understanding the taxonomic status of the geographically distant D. rectus populations. This species was recently redescribed and figured by Kundrata et al. (2014 b) so we are not repeating the description here. Female and immature stages are unknown. A female specimen from Cyprus collected by H. M. Morris and determined as D. rectus (Tab. 1) is deposited in the Natural History Museum in London, but without any further details this determination must be confirmed by future studies. Distribution. Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey (Adana, Hatay; Fig. 55). Given the current distribution of this species, its occurence in Syria is highly probable.
- Published as part of Kobieluszova, Lucie & Kundrata, Robin, 2015, Taxonomic review of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Asia Minor, with descriptions of seven new species and comments on the female antennal morphology in Drilini in Zootaxa 4012 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/232879