Revisión Sistemática del Género Berberomeloe Bologna, 1988 (Coleoptera, Meloidae) y Diagnosis de un Endemismo Ibérico Olvidado.
[EN] A review of 376 individuals of Berberomeloe, an African-Iberian genus of Meloidae described by Bologna (1988), reveals that the genus is composed of two species: B. majalis (Linnaeus, 1758) and B. insignis (Charpentier, 1818). The geographic range of B. majalis covers most of Spain and Portugal...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1998 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/46411 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/46411 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Coleoptera Meloidae Berberomeloe B. insignis B. majalis Sistemática Morfología |
| Sumario: | [EN] A review of 376 individuals of Berberomeloe, an African-Iberian genus of Meloidae described by Bologna (1988), reveals that the genus is composed of two species: B. majalis (Linnaeus, 1758) and B. insignis (Charpentier, 1818). The geographic range of B. majalis covers most of Spain and Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula, a portion of Southern France, and the northern regions of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwestern Africa. B. insignis is a little known taxon endemic of a narrow coastal zone in southeastern Spain, along the provinces of Granada, Almería and Murcia. Although B. insignis has been usually included as a synonym of B. majalis, its distinctive morphology, which includes among other traits, elongate IV to X antennae segments markedly dentate in males, prominent anterior angles of the pronotum, and a red-orange coloration on the posterior portions of the head, favour its recognition at the species level. |
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