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12Humanity space International almanac VOL. 6, No 5, 2017: 837-842
http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AF8E4D24-FEC8-4D16-8FCA-BB34E425025E
A new subspecies of Cortodera colchica (Faldermann, 1836) from Lebanon (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
M.L. Danilevsky1, T. Németh2
1A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky prospect 33, Moscow 119071 Russia
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
^Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology Baross u.13, Budapest H-1088 Hungary e-mail: [email protected]
Key words: new subspecies, taxonomy, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae, Cortodera, Lebanon.
Abstract: Cortodera colchica libanensis Danilevsky, ssp. n. is described from Lebanon: Northern gov., Bcharre env., 4 km E Ariz, 34°14.645'N, 36°5.166' E, 2830 m and from Tannourine env., 2 km
N Harissa, Tannourine Cedars Nat. Reserve, 34°12'28.75"N; 35°56'01"E, 1802 m and Barouk, Maasief el Mir, 1700-1950 m.
Introduction
Within the framework of a mutual agreement between the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK; Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon) and the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM; Budapest, Hungary) for exploring biodiversity, entomological trips were organised between 19-27 May, 2015, 16-29 of June, 2016 and 1-13 May, 2017 visiting Mount Lebanon. The first author identified a new subspecies of Cortodera while studying the Cerambycidae materials collected in these trips.
Cortodera colchica Reitter, 1890 was described from "Caucasus, Araxesthal". The type locality of the species is situated (Danilevsky, 2014: 176) in Nakhichevan Republic of Azerbaijan. The area of the nominative subspecies C. c. colchica is limited by Nakhichevan Republic and the nearest regions of Armenia (Sisian pass). It is characterized (several hundreds of specimens are known -MD) by equal number of males and females in the population, small
size of specimens, wide range of individual variability, but legs and abdomen in males are always black.
Now the species consists of 17 subspecies distributed from Caucasus to Near East (Danilevsky, 2017).
A new subspecies described bellow belongs to a very special group of taxa, which includes males with totally or partly red legs. Such character is very rare in C. colchica. Males with partly red legs are known in a single Caucasian subspecies (C. c. bulungensis Danilevsky, 2014 from North Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria) and in a single Turkish subspecies (C. c. aksarayensis Ozdikmen & Ozbek, 2012 - Aksaray, Konya, Antalya, Mu§, Malatya, I?el, Sivas).
Abbreviations used in the text:
MD - collection of M.L. Danilevsky, Moscow, Russia
HNHM - Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
PCAM - private collection of András Márkus, Gyula, Hungary
PCAK - private collection of Attila Kotán, Budapest, Hungary
PCKSZ - private collection of Kálmán Székely, Budapest, Hungary
PCNN - private collection of Nabil Nemer, Tannourine, Lebanon
Material and Methods
Cortodera colchica libanensis Danilevsky, ssp. n. Figs. 1-14
Cortodera colchica colchica, Cocquempot et al., 2016: 95; Márkus & Németh, 2016: 27.
Type locality. Lebanon, Northern gov., Bcharre env., 4 km E Ariz, 34°14.645'N, 36°5.166'E, 2830 m.
Description. The new subspecies is very close to C. c. aksarayensis Ozdikmen & Ozbek, 2012, which was described as a species from Aksaray province, but then downgraded to a subspecies rank by Danilevsky (2015).
Body considerably tapering posteriorly in males or about parallelsided in females; head rather short; last palpal joints strongly dilated apically, axe-like (in females less dilated); temples strongly angulated; antennae always totally black (in C. c. aksarayensis antennal bases sometimes lightened), relatively short; in males
surpassing elytral middle, in females hardly reaching elytral middle; 3rd joint about as long as 4th and shorter than 1st, which is about as long as 5th (in C. c. aksarayensis 3rd and 4th joints relatively longer, 3rd joint nearly as long as 1st, 4th joint a little shorter); prothorax transverse, usually less narrowed anteriorly than in C. c. aksarayensis; in males and in females about 1.2 times shorter than basal width; pronotum convex, with shallow depression along middle, with distinct regular punctation denser than in C. c. aksarayensis; central smooth line very short and narrow, sometimes indistinct; erect pronotal pubescence distinctly shorter than in C. c. aksarayensis; elytra in males and in females about 2 times longer, than basal width; usually black, or sometimes in males brown, or brown with black triangle behind scutellum; never brown in females; covered by short semierect black setae; elytral punctation less dense than in C. c. aksarayensis; legs usually black, but sometimes (in males and in females) red with dark tarsi, or red with back femora apices and darkened apices of middle and hind tibiae; abdomen always black (often red in C. c. aksarayensis); in males pygydium, postpygydium and last abdominal sternit rounded or with very small emarginations; in females posterior margins of last abdominal sternit also rounded or with small emarginations; body length in males: 7.2-8.0 mm, width: 2.4-2.7 mm, body length in females: 8.0-9.0 mm, width: 2.6-2.9 mm.
In general C. c. libanensis, ssp. n. is darker than C. c. aksarayensis; pale forms of C. c. aksarayensis have much lighter elytra, red abdomen, pale elytral and pronotal pubescence (never in C. c. libanensis, ssp. n.).
Material. Holotype, male, Lebanon, Northern gov., Bcharre env., 4 km E Ariz, 34°14.645'N, 36°5.166'E, 2830 m, 24.VI.2016, leg. P. Nemes - HNHM; 242 paratypes with same label, but leg. M. Boustani, A. Kotan, P. Nemes, T. Nemeth, M. Rehayem & W. Yammine (227 males, 15 females): 6 males, 2 females - MD; 52 males, 3 females - HNHM; 151 males, 10 females - PCAK; 12 males - PCAM; 5 males - PCKSZ; 3 paratypes (2 males,
1 female): Lebanon, Tannourine, 30.IV.2016, leg. N. Nemer -PCNN; 1 paratype (male), Lebanon, Northern gov., Tannourine env.,
2 km N Harissa, Tannourine Cedars Nat. Reserve, 34°12'28.75"N, 35°56'5.01"E, 1802 m, from Centaurea, 11.V.2017, leg. P. Nemes -
HNHM; 3 paratypes (1 male, 2 females), Barouk, Maasief el Mir, 1700-1950 m, 20.V.2006, T. Tichy leg. - PCAM. Distribution. Three populations from Lebanon are known: Northern gov., Bcharre env., 4 km E Ariz, 34°14.645'N, 36°5.166' E, 2830 m; Tannourine env., 2 km N Harissa, Tannourine Cedars Natural Reserve, 34°12'28.75"N, 35°56'5.01"E, 1802 m; Barouk, Maasief el Mir, 1700-1950 m
Biology. Imagoes are active in May and June. The beetles were observed on flowers of Centaurea triumfettii (det. C. Tawk).
Acknowledgements. Thanks are due to Nabil Nemer (USEK) and Charbel Tawk (Committee of Cedar Forest Friends, Bcharre, Lebanon) for the organisation of the travel in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the accomplishment of the project and hospitality. We are grateful to Mira Boustani, Attila Kotan, Petra Nemes, Martine Rehayem, Challitah Tanios and Wael Yammine for the tireless and unselfish help in the field work. We thank Gabor Csorba (deputy general director, HNHM) without whom these trips could not be realized.
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Figs 1-6. Cortodera colchica libanensis ssp. nov.:
1 - holotype, male; 2-4 - paratypes, males; 5-6 - paratypes, females.
Figs 7-9. Genitals of Cortodera colchica libanensis ssp. nov., holotype
7 - parameres, dorsal view; 8 - aedeagus, dorsal view; 9 - aedeagus, dorsolateral view.
Figs 10-14. Cortodera colchica libanensis ssp. nov.: 10 - living specimen; 11 - habitat at Bcharre, 4 km E Ariz, 2830 m, in June of 2016; 12 - Centaurea triumfettii, at Tannourine Nature Reserve, 1802 m, in May of 2017; 13-14: collecting site at Tannourine Nature Reserve, 1802 m, in May of 2017.
Received: 10.09.2017 Accepted: 08.10.2017
