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Contribution to the Asian and Afrotropical species of the genus Dyschiriodes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae)
No full textBulirsch, Petr (2009): Contribution to the Asian and Afrotropical species of the genus Dyschiriodes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 49 (2): 559-576, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.446813
A taxonomic revision of the Australian genus Setodyschirius with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae)
No full textBulirsch, Petr (2011): A taxonomic revision of the Australian genus Setodyschirius with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (1): 55-81, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.450371
Dyschiriodes (Dyschiriodes) jelineki Bulirsch 2009, sp. nov.
No full textDyschiriodes (Dyschiriodes) jelineki sp. nov. (Figs. 6, 12) Type locality. Southern Iran, 15 km NE of Bandar Lengeh. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁, ‘S. IRAN, 15 km NE / Bandar Lengeh / 25.–26.iv.1977 // Loc. No. 313 / Exped. Nat. Mus. / Praha // Dyschiriodes / sp. n. / det. D Fedorenko 2006’ (NMPC). PARATYPE: IRAN: 1 spec. with the same locality data as HT (PBPC). Description. Habitus as in Fig. 6; both HT and PT 3.70 mm long; HT moderately immature, fuliginous, anterior part of head, elytral base and apex lighter; surface of head and pronotum with distinct bronze lustre, surface of elytra with slight bronze lustre; legs rusty red, antennae and mouth-parts slightly lighter; PT very immature, rusty brown, head and pronotum with indistinct bronze lustre. Head. Anterior margin of clypeus with sharp, moderately protruded lateral lobes, between them straight, clypeofrontal area with 4–6 dense and irregular transverse furrows; facial furrows deep, long, parallel in anterior half, moderately divergent posteriorly; distance between them shorter than eye length. Surface vaulted, smooth, with fine and sparse micropunctures. Eyes large and moderately convex. Antennae submoniliform. Pronotum. Moderately convex; outline moderately and evenly rounded in posterior half, slightly rounded in anterior half; attenuated anteriorly; in HT 1.03 times and in PT 1.04 times as wide as long, in HT 1.44 times and in PT 1.41 times as wide as head; widest in posterior fourth.Anterior angles blunt, not rounded, posterior ones broadly rounded.Anterior transverse impression deep, without punctures and cross striae; median line deep, narrow; lateral channel distinct, reflexed lateral margin extended slightly below posterior setiferous puncture. Surface mirror-like, shiny, with very fine micropunctures. Elytra. Laterally slightly flattened, ovate; HT 1.64 (HT) to 1.65 (PT) times as long as wide, 1.24 times as wide as pronotum; humeri strongly protruded, each elytron with blunt humeral tooth; base slightly sloping; outline slightly and regularly broadened on sides, broadest just before midlength; suture slightly depressed at base. Base without basal border and tubercles; BSP small, deeply connected with stria 1. Striae 1–7 very deep in basal three fourth (inner ones) or basal two thirds (outer ones), slightly weakened apically; striae densely and moderately roughly punctate anteriorly; punctures gradually disappearing apically, striae in latero-apical area impunctate; stria 7 deeper before apex; stria 8 very fine, consisting of a row of minute punctures in second third of length, just recognisable in posterior third before apical stria; intervals strongly vaulted in basal two thirds, slightly flattened latero-apically. Three PHSP, three DSP (anterior one in interval 3, middle and posterior ones near stria 3) and two ASP (in deep apical stria). Protibia.Apical spine thin, moderately curved downwards and slightly inwards, as long as apical spur; the latter slightly curved; distal marginal tooth large, sharp, proximal one much smaller, blunt. Aedeagus. Crumpled due to immaturity, ca. 0.58 mm long in HT. Apical lamella narrowed apically in lateral view (Fig. 12). Paramere asetose. Differential diagnosis. Dyschiriodes jelineki sp. nov. belongs to the D. chalybeus group sensu FEDORENKO (2000) (= D. bengalensis group sensu FEDORENKO (1994, 1996)). It can be distinguished from the most similar D. (D.) mortchaensis (Bruneau de Miré, 1952), known from Tchad and Arabian Peninsula, by several transverse, more or less parallel furrows on the head (indistinct oblique furrow and irregular rugosity below it in D. mortchaensis), absence of cross-striated or roughly punctate anterior transverse impression on the pronotum and especially by the much shorter elytra (length/width ratio equal to 1.64–1.65 in D. jelineki sp. nov. and 1.73–1.82 in D. mortchaensis) with deeper and much more roughly punctate striae. The structure of head and stria 8 is similar to D. (D.) chalybeus resli (Bulirsch, 1996), known from the Eastern Mediterranean. Dyschiriodes jelineki sp. nov. can be distinguished from the latter subspecies by much larger body (3.70 mm in D. jelineki sp. nov., 2.65–3.45 mm in D. chalybeus resli); no cross striae in the anterior transverse impression of the pronotum, laterally more flattened elytra without basal tubercle and more densely and roughly punctate elytral striae. Finally, D. jelineki sp. nov. can be distinguished from most of the Afrotropical and Oriental species of the D. chalybeus group sensu FEDORENKO (2000) (= D. bengalensis group sensu FEDORENKO (1994, 1996)) by having stria 8 strongly weakened at elytral apex. Etymology. Dedicated to Dr. Josef Jelínek (NMPC, Praha), specialist in Nitidulidae, on the occasion of his 70 th birthday. Distribution. Southern Iran.Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr, 2009, Contribution to the Asian and Afrotropical species of the genus Dyschiriodes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae), pp. 559-576 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 49 (2) on pages 572-573, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446813
Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species
No full textBulirsch, Petr, Guéorguiev, Borislav V. (2008): Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species. Zootaxa 1679: 39-53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18038
Dyschirioides (Eudyschirius) Fedorenko 1996
No full textSubgenus Eudyschirius Fedorenko, 1996 The subgenus was established and partially revised by FEDORENKO (1996, 1997b, 1999a). It contains about 80 widely distributed species and can be divided into at least 11 species groups.Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr, 2009, Contribution to the Asian and Afrotropical species of the genus Dyschiriodes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae), pp. 559-576 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 49 (2) on page 568, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446813
Reicheadella smetanai Bulirsch & Guéorguiev, 2008, sp. nov.
No full textReicheadella smetanai sp. nov. (Figs 3, 15, 16) Type material. Holotype & labeled: “ Albania mer. Liqueni i Butrintit, 1.V. 1958; A. Smetana leg.”; “ Holotype, Reicheadella smetanai sp. n. Bulirsch et Guéorguiev des., 2006 ” (NMP). Description. Body yellowbrown, legs, antennae and mouthparts rusty yellow, front legs slightly darker (Fig. 3). Length 2.05 mm. Head. Moderately broad, long, anterior margin of clypeus almost straight, frons with facial furrows shortened, shallow, broad. Impressions on clypeus oblique, broad, shallow. Eyes absent, genae with median part short, regularly vaulted, their hind angles rounded. Vertex with slightly reticulated microsculpture. Antennae length 0.69 mm; antennomere 2 slightly longer than 3 and 4 combined, antennomeres 6–10 as long as wide. Mandibles rather long, their apical part slightly curved. Terminal maxillary palpomeres moderately long, with apex slightly narrowed, not acicular. Pronotum. Moderately convex, microsculpture regular, but reticulation hardly visible. Sides regularly, moderately rounded, slightly attenuated posteriorly; maximum width before middle; posterior angles moderately rounded. Reflexed lateral margin entire, extended from blunt, rather protruding anterior angles to base as fine prebasal groove. Median line narrow, distinctly impressed almost towards prebasal groove; anterior transverse impression shallow, slightly deeper laterally. Episterna just visible from above in apical part. Reflexed lateral margin with 2 pairs of standard lateral setiferous punctures; disc with 2 pairs of submedial setae; the first very distinct pair in middle of fore third and the second, much finer pair in posterior third, close to median line. Ratio length: width 1.00; pronotum 1.42 times as broad as head. Legs. Protibia with apical spine bent outwards in dorsal view, apical spur of almost equal length, slightly curved. Lower marginal tooth large, prominent, upper one distinct, sharp. Hind tarsi length 0.23 mm; first tarsomere not elongated. Elytra. Convex, disc slightly flattened, outline almost oval, maximum width at middle. Base slightly bordered, slightly sloping, without distinct granules; prescutellar setiferous punctures isolated; suture not depressed; humeri rounded, not protruding. Lateral channel very wide, reflexed lateral margin with several (about 30) denticles; in basal two thirds denticles very dense, sharp, apically much finer, but recognizable up to apex with slightly protruded suture. Striae coarsely punctate; first striae deeper than striae 6–7; all striae strongly diminish apically, first striae in apical fifth, lateral ones in apical third; apically with only traces of fine punctures. Striae 1–5 distinct up to base, striae 6 and especially 7 shortened. Intervals 1–5 in basal part convex, lateral ones flattened. Intervals 3, 5, 7 with rows of setae. Ratio length: width 1.77; ratio elytra: pronotum length 2.34; ratio elytra: pronotum width 1.32. Venter. Last visible ventral segment in female with moderately reticulated microsculpture in apical two thirds. Aedeagus. Unknown. Female genital armature. Ovipositor as in Fig. 15; apical and basal stylomeres of both styli tightly fused; dorsal ensiform setae varied in number; two dorsolateral ensiform setae long and thick; nematiform not visible (probably absent); valvifer long and thin. Differential diagnosis. R. smetanai sp. nov. belongs to the genus Reicheadella; it can be easily distinguished from R. bischoffi, the only other known Albanian species, as well as from the Greek species of this genus, by the smaller size of the body, by only 2 pairs of the discal submedial setae and by several elytral lateral denticles. Etymology. The species is named in honour of Aleš Smetana, Ottawa, Canada, collector of the holotype. Type locality. South Albania: Liqueni i Butrintit, more precise data not available.Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr & Guéorguiev, Borislav V., 2008, Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species, pp. 39-53 in Zootaxa 1679 on pages 45-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18038
Dalmatoreicheia maderi Bulirsch & Guéorguiev, 2008, sp. nov.
No full textDalmatoreicheia maderi sp. nov. (Figs 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 16) Type material. Holotype ɗ labelled: “Kruja, Alban., Mader”; “ Holotype, Dalmatoreicheia maderi sp. n., Bulirsch et Guéorguiev des. 2006 ” (NMW). Description. Body rusty brown, elytra slightly darker, antennae and mouthparts rusty yellow, legs light rusty red, front legs slightly darker (Fig. 1). Length 3.20 mm. Head. Narrow, long, anterior margin of clypeus moderately and regularly emarginated; frons with facial furrows shortened, shallow and broad. Impressions on clypeus oblique, broad, shallow, interrupted in middle. Eyes absent, genae with median part long, slightly vaulted, their hind angles distinct. Vertex rather shiny, with moderately reticulated microsculpture. Left antenna length 1.20 mm (right antenna missing except antennomere 1); antennomere 2 just longer than 3 and 4 combined, antennomeres 6–10 slightly longer than wide. Mandibles rather long, their apical part moderately curved. Terminal maxillary palpomeres moderately long, with apex slightly narrowed, not acicular. Pronotum. Moderately convex, microsculpture distinct, reticulation regularly diffused. Sides regularly and moderately rounded, attenuated posteriorly; maximum width before middle; posterior angles very broadly rounded. Reflexed lateral margin entire, extended from short, sharp, rather protruding anterior angles to base as very distinct prebasal groove. Median line deep, distinctly impressed almost towards prebasal groove; anterior transverse impression shallow, slightly deeper laterally. Episterna just visible from above in extreme apical part. Lateral channel on each side with 2 setiferous punctures, anterior pair slightly separated from lateral margin; neither sublateral nor submedial discal setae. Ratio length: width 1.08; pronotum 1.60 times as broad as head. Legs. Protibia with apical spine bent outwards in dorsal view, apical spur of almost equal length to spine, slightly curved. Lower marginal tooth large, prominent, upper one distinct, sharp. Hind tarsi length 0.50 mm; first tarsomere elongated. Elytra. Convex, disc flattened, outline almost oval, maximum width at middle. Base distinctly bordered, strongly sloping, without distinct granules; prescutellar setiferous punctures isolated; suture broadly depressed; humeri very broadly rounded, not protruding. Lateral channel very wide, reflexed lateral margin with about 30 denticles; 6–8 humeral denticles sharp, lateral and especially apical ones much finer, just recognizable almost up to apex with slightly protruded suture. Striae 1–5 distinct, slightly punctate, striae 6–7 finer, moderately punctate; all striae strongly diminish apically: first striae in apical fifth, lateral ones in apical third; apically with only traces of fine punctures. Striae 1–3 distinct almost up to base, striae 4–7 slightly to moderately shortened. Intervals 1–5 in basal part slightly convex, lateral ones flattened. Intervals 2–7 with rows of setae; punctures in first intervals broader than striae punctures. Ratio length: width 1.71; ratio elytra: pronotum length 2.11; ratio elytra: pronotum width 1.35. Venter. Last visible ventral segment in male with slight reticulate microsculpture in apical half. Male genital armature. Ninth postabdominal sternum (urite) as in Fig. 4; ovate, short, widely rounded in basal part and briefly rounded in apical part; sclerites fused. Median lobe as in Figs 7, 9; arcuate in lateral view, apical part wider than basal part; apical orifices straight, basal orifice concave; internal sac situated in subapical part; copulatory piece forming inside four more or less visible lamellae; median lobe in ventral view with both apex and basis slightly bent to left side. Parameres dissimilar in shape and size as in Fig. 12; left one smaller, strongly bent at about middle, apex with one short, distinctly removed preapical seta, and two long apical setae; right paramere massive, with two long apical setae. Female genital armature. Unknown. Differential diagnosis. D. maderi sp. nov. can be distinguished from D. janaki Magrini & Bulirsch, 2005, the single hitherto known species of this genus, by its narrow pronotum (ratio length: width 1.08 versus 0.96); by the strongly oblique base of the elytra and indistinct humeri and by the presence of rows of setae in intervals 2–7 (versus in intervals 2, 3, 5, 7 only). Etymology. The species is named in honor of the collector, the Austrian coleopterologist and biospeleologist Leopold Mader (1886–1961). Type locality. Krujë is a wellknown historical town, 32 km north of the capital Tiranë, in the centraleast part of Albania. The town is situated on an isolated spur of a limestone mountainwall of the massif of Sari Salltiku, part of the Krujë Range (altitude ca. 550 m above sea level). The exact place of finding is unknown. Remarks. We suppose that the holotype of D. maderi sp. nov. had been collected before 1922, judging by the year of printing of Mader´s paper in the Wiener Entomologische Zeitung (Mader 1921). There the author described Epierus krujanensis Mader, 1921 (currently junior synonym to the histerid beetle Carcinops pumilio (Erichson, 1834)) from a type locality identical with our new species. The genus Dalmatoreicheia is known only from two specimens: a female of D. janaki from Croatia, the type species, and a male of D. maderi sp. nov. It is necessary to find further material to verify the congeneric status of both taxa.Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr & Guéorguiev, Borislav V., 2008, Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species, pp. 39-53 in Zootaxa 1679 on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18038
Figs. 15–22. 15–18 in A taxonomic revision of the Australian genus Setodyschirius with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae)
No full textFigs. 15–22. 15–18 – aedeagus, right lateral view: 15 – Setodyschirius pseudozonatus sp. nov. (HT); 16 – S. storeyi sp. nov.(HT); 17 – S. monteithianus sp. nov. (PT); 18 – S. weiri sp. nov.; (HT). 19–22 – apex of aedeagus, ventral view: 19 – Setodyschirius pseudozonatus sp. nov. (HT); 20 – S. storeyi sp. nov. (HT); 21 – S. monteithianus sp. nov. (PT); 22 – S. weiri sp. nov. (HT).Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr, 2011, A taxonomic revision of the Australian genus Setodyschirius with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae), pp. 55-81 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.450371
Discovery of Antireicheia in Cameroon with description of four new species and discussion on phylogeny and distribution of endogean Reicheiina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae: Clivinini)
No full textGrebennikov, Vasily V., Bulirsch, Petr, Magrini, Paolo (2009): Discovery of Antireicheia in Cameroon with description of four new species and discussion on phylogeny and distribution of endogean Reicheiina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae: Clivinini). Zootaxa 2292: 1-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27529
Dyschiriodes (Paradyschirius) ruthmuellerae Bulirsch 2009, sp. nov.
No full textDyschiriodes (Paradyschirius) ruthmuellerae sp. nov. (Figs. 3, 9, 15) Type locality. Namibia, Caprivi, 20 km SE of Divundu, 1000 m a.s.l. Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁, ‘ NAMIBIA; CAPRIVI 1000m / 20 km SE Divundu / 18.06 S – 21.40 E // 17.iii.2006; E-Y: 3726 / light trap / leg. R. Müller’ (TMSA). Description. Habitus as in Fig. 3; length 3.70 mm. Colouration dark rusty-brown, surface without metallic lustre, elytra in basal two thirds slightly darker; legs rusty red, antennomeres and mouth-parts rusty yellow. Head. Anterior margin of clypeus with sharp, distinctly protruding lateral lobes, between them slightly emarginate; clypeofrontal area with two distinct and parallel transverse ridges, connected at their midlength by equally distinct longitudinal ridge (forming together a letter H turned sideways); facial furrows deep, moderately long, parallel anteriorly and slightly divergent in posterior third, distance between them slightly larger than eye length. Surface vaulted, even, smooth, with very fine and sparse micropunctures. Eyes moderately large, convex. Antennae submoniliform. Pronotum. Strongly convex, outline moderately rounded in posterior half and almost straight in anterior half; moderately attenuated anteriorly; 1.00 times as wide as long, 1.41 times as wide as head; widest just before posterior setiferous punctures. Anterior angles obtuse, posterior ones moderately rounded. Anterior transverse impression deep, impunctate, with very sparse and fine cross striae; median line moderately deep, slightly deeper posteriorly; lateral channel distinct, reflexed lateral margin extended markedly beyond posterior setiferous puncture. Surface mirror-like, shiny, with very fine micropunctures. Elytra. Strongly convex, long-ovate, 1.77 times as long as wide, 1.16 times as wide as pronotum; humeri moderately protruded, each elytron with indistinct humeral tooth; base slightly sloping; outline slightly broadened on sides, broadest at about midlength; suture not depressed at base. Base without basal border and tubercles; BSP large, distinctly connected with stria 1. Striae 1–7 equally deep, striae 2–6 slightly finer just before apex, striae 2–3 finer basally, striae 4–5 deeper basally; striae moderately deeply punctate in anterior half (striae 1–4) to two fifths (striae 5–7); stria 8 superficial, finely punctate in second third and barely recognisable apically; intervals moderately vaulted on disc. Three PHSP, three DSP (anterior one near interval 3, middle and posterior ones in interval 3) and two ASP (in deep apical stria). Protibia.Apical spine distinctly curved downwards but not inwards, longer than apical spur; the latter uncinate before apex; distal marginal tooth large, sharp, proximal one indistinct, very blunt. Aedeagus. Shape as in Figs. 9, 15; 0.69 mm long in HT (base of median lobe cracked, full length probably about 0.74 mm), lower margin of median lobe in apical half straight. Apical lamella as in Fig. 15; moderately long, asymmetric, narrowly rounded. Paramere not setose. Differential diagnosis. Dyschiriodes ruthmuellerae sp. nov. belongs to the D. verticalis subgroup of the D. substriatus group (sensu FEDORENKO 1996, 1997a). It can be distinguished from the West African D. (Paradyschirius) devroeyanus (Burgeon, 1935), the only known Afrotropical species of this (sub)group, by its much larger size (3.70 mm in D. ruthmullerae sp. nov., 2.70–2.90 mm in D. devroeyanus), H-shaped carina on the head (T-shaped in D. devroeyanus), slightly narrower pronotum (ratio width/length equal to 1.00 in D. ruthmullerae sp. nov. and 1.03–1.07 in D. devroeyanus), with almost no cross striae on the transverse impression of the frons, slightly longer elytra (ratio length/width equal to 1.77 in D. ruthmullerae sp. nov. and 1.69–1.74 in D. devroeyanus) and much finer and in basal half finely punctate elytral striae. Dyschirioides (P.) dispar (Péringuey, 1896), the second Afrotropical representative of the subgenus Paradyschirius Fedorenko, 1996 known to date, belongs to the monospecific and very different D. dispar group (sensu FEDORENKO 1996) characterized by transverse furrows but no keel on the head, a longer and subparallel pronotum and elytra, slightly bordered elytral base and reduced number of elytral setiferous punctures (one PHSP, one DSP and one ASP). Etymology. Dedicated to the discoverer of the new species, Ruth Müller (TMSA, Pretoria, South Africa). Distribution. Namibia (Caprivi).Published as part of Bulirsch, Petr, 2009, Contribution to the Asian and Afrotropical species of the genus Dyschiriodes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae), pp. 559-576 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 49 (2) on pages 565-568, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.446813
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