Cholovocera maderae Wollaston 1854 ...

• Main Authors: Delgado, Juan A., Palma, Ricardo L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Endomychidae; Cholovocera; Cholovocera maderae; Ricardo; Wollaston; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10424588; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10424588

Cholovocera maderae Wollaston, 1854 This taxon has a convoluted history regarding both its generic placement and its original geographic distribution. It was described from a single specimen, collected in the island of Madeira, in the North Atlantic Ocean. In the original description, Wollaston (1854: 180) wrote that it differed from the other two members of Cholovocera by its larger size (“Long. corp. lin. 7/8”), no punctuation, a more rounded outline, and described the eyes as “prominent”, “being composed of merely few large facets, set widely apart upon a convex surface”. Firstly, the given body length would be equivalent to 1.86 mm, a much longer measurement that the longest species of Cholovocera (see above); secondly, the multifaceted eye is not a generic feature of Cholovocera, which has only one facet, protected by a lateral rim (Fig. 24E). “ Cholovocera ” maderae has been recorded from several localities around the world, always associated with the longhorn crazy ant, Paratrechina longicornis ... : Published as part of Delgado, Juan A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2023, A revision of the genus Cholovocera Victor, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae), pp. 1-71 in European Journal of Taxonomy 906 on pages 53-58, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.906.2329, http://zenodo.org/record/10424508 ...