Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 197–198, 2023
Title: Editorial
Authors: Barna Páll-Gergely and Attila Hettyey
DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.197.2023
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 199–211, 2023 Title: Three amazing new species of the genus Chrysolina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) from China
Author: Andrzej O. Bieńkowski Author's address: Tver State University, Faculty of Biology, Tchaikovsky Avenue, 70, Tver, 170002, Russia; E-mail: bienkowski@yandex.ru Abstract: Three new species of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860, namely Сh. caspari sp. n., Ch. melchiori sp. n., and Ch. balthazari sp. n. are described from Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces of China. These species have rare or unique features. In Ch. caspari sp. n. the shape of the last maxillary palpomere (it is shorter and narrower than the penultimate one) is a rare case in the genus Chrysolina. Among Chinese species, this shape of maxillary palpi is known only in one species, Ch. pieli Chen, 1936. In Ch. melchiori sp. n. the relief of elytral surface (strongly reticulated irregular funnels bearing a puncture at the bottom, separated by smooth intervals) is unique for the genus Chrysolina. In Ch. balthazari sp. n. the relief of elytra (alternation of wide convex intervals between pairs of rows and very narrow flat or slightly convex intervals between rows of one pair) is well distinguishable from most Chrysolina members. Due to this feature, the new species can only be close to Ch. jinxiaoae Ge in: Daccordi, Ge, Cui, Yang, 2011 from North Sichuan. Photographs of habitus, external characters, and male aedeagi are presented. Key words: leaf-beetles, taxonomy, Sichuan, Yunnan DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.199.2023
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 213–245, 2023 Title: The supraspecific structure of the subtribe Blaptina Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae)
Authors: Ivan Chigray and Alexander Kirejtshuk Authors' address: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 1990343, Russia; E-mails: chigray93@bk.ru; agk@zin.ru, kirejtshuk@gmail.com Abstract: Years of research of the subtribe Blaptina made it possible to clarify relations between some species and propose changes in supraspecific structure of this subtribe. Blaps scabiosa Baudi di Selve, 1874 is designated as a type species of Caraboblaps Bauer, 1921, the new synonymy is proposed: Blaps Fabricius, 1775 = Caraboblaps Bauer, 1921, syn. n. Blaps nitens nitens Laporte, 1840 is designated as a type species of Periblaps Bauer, 1921, Blaps ominosa Ménétriés, 1832 is designated as a type species of Holoblaps Bauer, 1921; type species of Periblaps and Holoblaps are transferred here to genus Lithoblaps, as a result the following new synonymy is proposed: Lithoblaps Motschulsky, 1860 = Periblaps Bauer, 1921, syn. n. = Holoblaps Bauer, 1921, syn. n. The similarity of the structure of the aedeagus of Ablapsis compressipes Reitter, 1887 and some species of the subgenus Prosoblapsia Skopin et Kaszab, 1978 (genus Blaps Fabricius, 1775) gives a base to transfer the taxon Ablapsis Reitter, 1887 into the genus Blaps as a separate subgenus (Ablapsis stat. resurr.). Blaps tentyrioides Seidlitz, 1893 (= Blaps socia Seidlitz, 1893) is designated as a type species of the subgenus Protoblaps Bauer, 1921. As the genera Protoblaps Bauer, 1921 and Genoblaps Bauer, 1921 have one type species and the aedeagal structure of type species of Ablapsis, Protoblaps and Prosoblapsia is similar, the new synonymy is proposed: Ablapsis Reitter, 1887 = Protoblaps Bauer, 1921 syn. n. = Genoblaps Bauer, 1921 syn. n. = Prosoblapsia Skopin et Kaszab, 1978, syn. n. Analysis of imaginal and larval structures of the species here united in the taxon Lithoblaps Motschulsky, 1860 and other members of Blaps showed that differences between these two groups are comparable with those between other genera of the subtribe and, therefore, the former taxon is here regarded as a distinct genus Lithoblaps gen. resurr. Thus, 100 species and subspecies (marked as comb. n. or comb. resurr.) are transferred from Blaps to Lithoblaps. The additional new combination is established: Dila platythorax (Gemminger, 1870), comb. n. (from Blaps). The key to genera and the catalogue of the subtribe Blaptina are given. Key words: Blaptina, sections of Allard, imaginal and larval characters, new synonymy, new combinations DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.213.2023
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 247–264, 2023 Title: Big-eyed bugs of the Malagasy Region (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae)
Author: Péter Kóbor Author's address: Centre for Agricultural Research, Plant Protection Institute, H-1022 Budapest, Herman Ottó u. 15, Hungary; E-mail: kobor.peter@atk.hu Abstract: A synopsis of the geocorine true bugs distributed in the Malagasy biogeographic region is presented, including the description Geocoris (Piocoris) petofii sp. n. and proposal of the new synonymy Geocoris (Geocoris) insularis China, 1955 = Geocoris (Geocoris) pallidipennis mauritii Stål, 1854. Keys, diagnoses, taxonomic notes, and distribution data for discussed species are provided. Key words: Geocorinae, Malagasy region, new species, synonymy, keys DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.247.2023
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 265–301, 2023 Title: Contributions to the taxonomy and biogeography of the genus Dichagyris (subg. Dichagyris) Lederer, 1867 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae) II. The review of the D. forficula species group
Authors: Zoltán Varga1, Gábor Ronkay2 and László Ronkay2 Authors' addresses: 1Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary; corresponding author, E-mail: varga.zoltan@science.unideb.hu
Abstract: The forficula species group of the Holarctic genus Dichagyris is revised based on the survey of type specimens and relevant materials of state and private collections. D. turana (Staudinger, [1892]) stat. rev. and D. furiosa (Bang-Haas, 1912) stat. rev. are elevated to specific status and lectotypes are designated, D. forficula devota (Christoph, 1884) stat. rev. is downgraded to subspecies. The specific status of D. erubescens (Staudinger, [1892]) and D. contermina (Corti, 1930) is confirmed. The junior synonymy of D. devota eremica (Amsel, 1935) with D. forficula devota (Christoph, 1884) was constated. Seven new subspecies (D. forficula akdagestana ssp. n., D. forficula pseudoturana ssp. n., D. forficula chitralensis ssp. n., D. turana cisiliensis ssp. n., D. furiosa kugitanga ssp. n., D. furiosa griseoerythra ssp. n. and D. contermina melanographa ssp. n.) are described, with considerations on the phyletic lines and biogeography of the taxa of the D. forficula species complex. With 79 figures. Key words: review of Agrotini, taxonomy, lectotype designations, new specific statuses, subspecies descriptions, genital characters, phyletic lines, geographical distributions DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.265.2023
2Heterocera Ltd; H-1137 Budapest, Szent István krt 4, Hungary, E-mails: gaborronkay@gmail.com, laszlo.ronkay2@gmail.com
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Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 69 (3), pp. 303–312, 2023 Title: Radix rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1822) (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae), a new species
for Oman and Arabian Peninsula
Authors: Andrzej Falniowski1, Aleksandra Jaszczyńska2 and Sebastian Hofman3 Authors' addresses: 1Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30–387 Kraków, Poland, E-mail: andrzej.falniowski@uj.edu.pl
Abstract: The fauna of freshwater gastropods of the Arabian Peninsula, a desert land, is neither rich nor extensively studied. Only five species of the family Lymnaeidae have been recorded from this subcontinent so far. In February 2023, a few specimens of Radix rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1822) have been collected from the stream at Wadi Tiwi, NE Oman. The shell, female part of the reproductive organs, prostate, paraeputium and phalloteca are presented. Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences confirmed the assignment of these specimens to R. rufescens, known from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, not from the Arabian Peninsula. Either R. rufescens is the sixth lymnaeid species inhabiting Arabia, or at least some of the records of R. natalensis (Krauss, 1848), whose shells are hardly discernible from the ones of R. rufescens, should be interpreted as misidentified R. rufescens. Thousands of years of the trade relations between Oman and India suggest accidental transportation of this snail by trade vessels. Key words: shell, reproductive organs, cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), mtDNA, molecular relationships DOI: 10.17109/AZH.69.3.303.2023
2Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland, E-mail: a.jaszczynska@uj.edu.pl
3Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30–387 Kraków, Poland; E-mail: s.hofman@uj.edu.pl