Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna

Belarima violacea (Lucas) is an uncommon species of the Galerucini tribe (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) distributed in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and recorded here for the first time for the European fauna. One male and one female were found, not far from each other, wandering on the sa...

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Autores principales: Violi, Michele, D’Alessandro, Paola, Biondi, Maurizio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33958909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.61846
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author Violi, Michele
D’Alessandro, Paola
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description Belarima violacea (Lucas) is an uncommon species of the Galerucini tribe (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) distributed in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and recorded here for the first time for the European fauna. One male and one female were found, not far from each other, wandering on the sand among the vegetation of the shifting dunes of the Tuscan coast (Rosignano Solvay, Spiagge Bianche). Some hypotheses are proposed to explain the presence of B. violacea on the Italian coast. Morphological descriptions of external habitus, aedeagus and spematheca, the latter here described for the first time, are also provided, accompanied by micro-photographs.
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spelling pubmed-80623872021-05-05 Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna Violi, Michele D’Alessandro, Paola Biondi, Maurizio Zookeys Research Article Belarima violacea (Lucas) is an uncommon species of the Galerucini tribe (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) distributed in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and recorded here for the first time for the European fauna. One male and one female were found, not far from each other, wandering on the sand among the vegetation of the shifting dunes of the Tuscan coast (Rosignano Solvay, Spiagge Bianche). Some hypotheses are proposed to explain the presence of B. violacea on the Italian coast. Morphological descriptions of external habitus, aedeagus and spematheca, the latter here described for the first time, are also provided, accompanied by micro-photographs. Pensoft Publishers 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8062387/ /pubmed/33958909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.61846 Text en Michele Violi, Paola D'Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Violi, Michele
D’Alessandro, Paola
Biondi, Maurizio
Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title_full Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title_fullStr Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title_full_unstemmed Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title_short Belarima violacea (Lucas, 1847) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the European fauna
title_sort belarima violacea (lucas, 1847) (coleoptera, chrysomelidae), a new genus and species for the european fauna
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33958909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.61846
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