A new species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of the M. aeneus group from Greece, with review of the M. subaeneus complex.
A new species of the pollen-beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of the M. aeneus group from Greece, with review of the M. subaeneus complex.
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来自希腊的 M. aeneus 组的花粉甲虫属 Meligethes（鞘翅目：Nitidulidae）的一个新种，并对 M. subaeneus 复合体进行了回顾。
DOI：
10.11646/zootaxa.1275.1.4
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
A. Biase
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作者：
P. Audisio;E. Mancini;A. Biase
通过形态学分析，结合田间昆虫/寄主植物关系数据，阐明了古北界Meligethes subaeneus复合体（鞘翅目，Nitidulidae，Meligethinae）的分类地位，包括3个欧洲种和3个高加索种（M. subaeneus，M. matronalis，M.埃佩洛西;种）与菊科植物的花有关，用于幼虫发育。分析重点是对一个新种M.的诊断和正式描述。埃佩洛西; sp.来自希腊西北部（Pindo Chain），在碎米荠属Cardamine（s.字符串）格劳卡·斯普伦格尔真M. subaeneus在欧洲也进行了分析;相结合的形态学和生态学证据表明，该种是在欧洲人口，这可能是更新世分化的结果，表明一个正在进行的过程中的初期物种形成的三个主要群体的结构。
A morphological analysis was performed, combined with field data on insect/host-plant associations to clarify the taxonomic scenario of the Palaearctic Meligethes subaeneus complex (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Meligethinae), including three European and Caucasian species (M. subaeneus, M. matronalis, M. epeirosi n. sp.) that are associated with flowers of Brassicaceae for larval development. The analysis was focused on the diagnosis and formal description of a new species, M. epeirosi n. sp. from NW Greece (Pindo Chain), which develops on Cardamine (s. str.) glauca Sprengel. The morphological variation of the true M. subaeneus in Europe was also analysed; the combined morphological and ecological evidence suggests that this species is structured in three main groups of European populations, which are probably the result of Pleistocene differentiation, suggesting an ongoing process of incipient speciation within this taxon.