A new Aristogethes pollen beetle from Oman, with a commented and updated checklist of the species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F24%3A10136694" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/24:10136694 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-1990/2043-64_2_337.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-1990/2043-64_2_337.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2024.024" target="_blank" >10.37520/aemnp.2024.024</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A new Aristogethes pollen beetle from Oman, with a commented and updated checklist of the species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Original language description
An unexpected new species of the genus Aristogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009, A. pelikani sp. nov., is described from southern Oman (Arabian Peninsula). This new species appears to be morphologically rather closely related to a couple of species known from southern Africa (northern South Africa, Botswana and southern Namibia): A. eremita (Audisio, Kirk-Spriggs & Kirejtshuk, 1998) and especially A. rufofuscus (Audisio, Kirk-Spriggs & Kirejtshuk, 1998), with which it shares several morphological traits and some interesting eco-ethological adaptations; these three species are, in fact, all specialized to live in stony sub-desert environments, with phenology mostly in August-September in both areas (southern Africa and southern Arabian Peninsula); they are also all associated for larval development with sub-desertic Malvaceae: Sterculioideae of the genus Hermannia L. The new species is otherwise easily distinguished from its two southern African relatives by the peculiarly shining and coarsely punctuated elytral surface, smaller average body sizes, narrower and at base much more acutely toothed tarsal claws, and the different male and female genitalia, more like those of Aristogethes rufofuscus.The larval hostplant of the new species is represented by Hermannia (Mahernia) paniculata Franch., a small eremic southern Arabian and Northeast African species, typically growing at low altitude in stony sub-desert habitats, close to the sea. An updated and commented checklist to known species of Aristogethes is presented.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
ISSN
0374-1036
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
337-344
UT code for WoS article
001379893200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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