Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)

Maurizio Biondi; Paola D’Alessandro

doi:10.3897/zookeys.547.9375

Research Article

Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)

Maurizio Biondi^‡, Paola D’Alessandro^‡

‡ University of L`Aquila, Coppito-L’Aquila, Italy

Corresponding author: Maurizio Biondi ( maurizio.biondi@univaq.it )

Academic editor: Michael Schmitt

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Citation: Biondi M, D’Alessandro P (2015) Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). In: Jolivet P, Santiago-Blay J, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 5. ZooKeys 547: 63–74. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.9375

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Abstract

The Afrotropical flea beetle genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 is reviewed. Notomela joliveti sp.n. from Principe Island is described. The following new synonymies are established: N. cyanipennis Jacoby, 1899 = N. viridipennis Bryant, 1941, syn. n. = N. cyanipennis macrosoma Bechyné, 1959, syn. n. In addition, the new combination is established: Notomela fulvofasciata Jacoby, 1903 is transfered to Amphimela [A. fulvofasciata (Jacoby, 1903), comb. n.]. Micrographs of male and female genitalia, scanning electron micrographs of some diagnostic morphological characters, a key to identification, and distributional data for all species of Notomela, are provided.

Keywords

Coleoptera , Chrysomelidae , Afrotropical region, Notomela , new species, new synonymy, new combination, taxonomy, faunistics

Introduction

Notomela Jacoby, 1899 is an endemic flea beetle genus occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2012). Prior to this study, four species and one subspecies were attributed to it: N. cyanipennis Jacoby, 1899 and N. fulvofasciata Jacoby, 1903 from Western Africa; N. fulvicollis Bryant, 1931 from Kwazulu-Natal and N. viridipennis Bryant, 1941 from Uganda; N. cyanipennis macrosoma Bechyné, 1959, from Democratic Republic of Congo.

In this paper, a taxonomical review of the known species and the description of a new species, Notomela joliveti sp. n., from Principe Island are reported.

Materials and methods

Material examined consisted of dried pinned specimens preserved in the institutions listed below.

Specimens were examined, measured and dissected using WILD MZ12.5 and LEICA M205C binocular microscopes. Photomicrographs were taken using a Leica DFC500 camera and the Zerene Stacker version 1.04. Scanning electron micrographs were taken using a HITACHI TM-1000. Geographical coordinates of the localities are reported in degrees, minutes and, possibly, seconds (DMD-WGS84 format); coordinates and geographical information included in square brackets were added by the authors and follow those available at web sources. The terminology used follows: Döberl (1986), Furth and Suzuki (1994) and Suzuki (1988) for the spermatheca; Furth and Suzuki (1998) for the metafemoral spring.

Abbreviations. Morphology - LAED: length of median lobe of aedeagus; LAN: length of antennae; LB: total length of body; LE: length of elytra; LP: length of pronotum; LSPc: length of spermathecal capsule; WE: width of elytra; WP: width of pronotum.

Collections and depositories:

BAQ Collection M. Biondi, Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy;

BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom;

IRSNBInstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium;

MSNGMuseo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘Giacomo Doria’, Genova, Italy;

NHMBNaturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland;

RMCAMusée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium.

Taxonomy

Notomela Jacoby, 1899: 357

Notomela Jacoby: Scherer (1961: 277); Biondi and D’Alessandro (2010: 411; 2012: 61)

Type species

Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby, 1899: 357, designation by monotypy (Type locality: “Cameroons”).

Morphological remarks

Based on newly examined material, morphological characteristics of Neodera are revised and updated with respect to the original description (Jacoby 1899). Body (Figs 1–3) thickset, sub-cylindrical or elliptical, strongly convex. Head (Figs 4–5) with vertex and frons distinctly punctated; frontal tubercles sub-quadrate, clearly distant from each other; frontal carina not raised; genae short. Antennae moderately elongate, about as long as from 1/3 to half body length.

Figures 1–3.

Habitus. Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby, male (1) N. fulvicollis Bryant, male (2) N. joliveti sp. n., male (3).

Figures 4–7.

Head of Notomela fulvicollis Bryant (4); f = frons; fc = frontal carina; ft = frontal tubercle; v = vertex. Ditto, N. joliveti sp.n. (5) Metafemoral spring of N. fulvicollis Bryant (6); bav = basal angle of ventral lobe; dmv = dorsal margin of ventral lobe; ea = extended arm of dorsal lobe; cs = cuticular sheet; vl = ventral lobe. Female genitalia (7); spermatheca of N. cyanipennis Jacoby (A); spermatheca (B), tignum (C), and vaginal palpi (D) of N. fulvicollis Bryant.

Pronotum (Figs 8, 10, 12) moderately transverse (WP/LP > 1.5 but ≤ 1.8), anteriorly slightly wider than posteriorly, without antebasal furrow; lateral margins bordered, with dentiform and curved anterior angles, not visible in dorsal view; posterior margin very finely bordered, slightly sinuous.

Figures 8–13.

Pronotum and elytra. Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby (8, 9). N. fulvicollis Bryant (10, 11). N. joliveti sp. n. (12, 13).

Elytral punctation (Figs 9, 11, 13) partially irregular, arranged in simple or double rows, with submarginal stria of distinctly and deeply impressed punctures laterally, delimiting wide and distinctly raised lateral band (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2012, p. 112, Fig. 220); interstriae flat and very finely punctulated. Hind femora moderately enlarged; hind tibiae dorsally channeled in distal half, with short apical spur; tarsal claws appendiculate.

Ventral surface sub-smooth, with sparsely and finely impressed punctation, denser on abdominal sternites; procoxal cavities posteriorly closed, with narrow intercoxal process; metasternum about as long as first abdominal sternite; elytral epipleura wide, weakly obliquely downward, laterally just visible, with very sparsely punctulated, almost smooth, surface.

Metafemoral spring (Fig. 6) showing several similarities with the Blepharida morpho-group (Furth 1982) and characterized by: rather straight dorsal lobe with a distinct extended arm which projects far beyond apex of ventral lobe; ventral lobe with large, obtuse basal angle; dorsal edge of ventral lobe without any sclerotized recurve flange (Furth and Suzuki 1998). However it should be made quite clear that the irregular tissue attached to the dorsal margin of the ventral lobe is the “cuticular sheet”, an irregular sheet of connective tissue by which the primary tibial extensor muscle is inserted onto the dorsal edge of the ventral lobe (Furth 1982).

Spermatheca (Figs 7A, B) of form A (Furth and Suzuki 1998) with basal and distal parts very elongate, not separate from each other; ductus uncoiled but with 2 or 3 evident curves.

Vaginal palpi (Fig. 7D) wide and short; tignum (Fig. 7C) clearly T shaped.

Distribution

Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Fernando Poo Island), São Tomé and Príncipe, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of South Africa (Limpopo, North-West Province, Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province), Rwanda and Uganda (Fig. 17).

Figures 14–16.

Median lobe of aedeagus in lateral (a), ventral (b) and dorsal (c) view. Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby (14). N. fulvicollis Bryant (15). N. joliveti sp.n. (16).

Figure 17.

Notomela Jacoby species distribution.

Notes

Notomela can be placed next to Amphimela Chapuis, 1875, genus widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Australian, Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions. Notomela shares with Amphimela the same pronotal shape, head with wide interantennal space, frontal carina not raised, metafemoral spring (personal data) and spermathecal type. However, these two genera are easily distinguishable by the: presence of a submarginal elytral stria of distinctly and deeply impressed punctures laterally, delimiting wide and distinctly raised lateral band in Notomela, absent in Amphimela; frontal tubercles clearly delimited and raised in Notomela, absent or just visible in Amphimela; pronotal punctation laterally more strongly and densely impressed, uniformly impressed in Amphimela; elytral punctation partially irregular in Notomela, regular in Amphimela.

Ecological data

Host plants reported for this flea beetle genus in southern Africa (N. fulvicollis Bryant) are Citrus and Zanthoxylum [= Xanthoxylum; = Fagara] (Rutaceae) (Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995). Based on the distributional data, Notomela species seem to be associated mainly with tropical and temperate lowland and montane forest ecosystems.

Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby, 1899

Notomela cyanipennis Jacoby, 1899: 357; Bechyné 1960: 32; Scherer 1969: 371

= Notomela viridipennis Bryant, 1941: 212; Bechyné 1955: 559 syn. n.

= Notomela cyanipennis macrosoma Bechyné, 1959: 35 syn. n.

Type material examined

Lectotype designation. (N. cyanipennis): Cameroons, W. Afr., ♂ (Biondi M. des.) (BMNH). Holotype ♂ (N. viridipennis): Uganda, Madi [≈ 3°19'N, 31°46'E], v.1927, G.D.H. Carpenter (BMNH). Holotype ♂ (N. cyanipennis macrosoma): Stanleyville [= Kisangani 00°31'N, 25°12'E], 31.iii.1928 (IRSNB). Further material studied. IVORY COAST: Bingerville [5°21'N, 3°54'E], 1-6.ii.1964, J. Decelle leg., 1 specimen (NHMB); LIBERIA: Monrovia [6°18'48"N 10°48'05"E], Coll. Chapuis (BMNH), 1 specimen; NIGERIA: Southern Nigeria, Lagos, Ussher, Fry Collection, 1 specimen (IRSNB); CAMEROUN: Southern Cameroun, Ekok [2°44'32"N 14°25'13"E], xi, A. Mayne leg., 2 specimens (BMNH); Fernando Poo [= Bioko Island 3°30'N, 8°42'E], 1 specimen (NHBM); DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Stanleyville, 31.iii.1928 [= Kisangani 00°31'N, 25°12'E], 8 specimens (RMCA); Kivu, Kavimvira [3°21'10"S, 29°09'18"E] (Uvira), xii. 1954, G. Marlier leg., “à la lumière”, 3 specimens (RMCA), 7 specimens (BMNH); ditto, ii-iii.1955, 1 specimen (BMNH); RWANDA: Rusumo, Ibanda Makera [2°22'56"S, 30°46'33"E], x.1993, T. Wagner leg., “galeriewald lichtfang”, 1 specimen (BAQ); Kigali Province, Kicukiro District [2°00'37"S, 30°07'04"E], xi.1972, F. Cuypers leg., 1500 m, 1 specimen (RMCA); ETHIOPIA: 60 km N of Yabelo [5°26'39"N 38°05'56"E], Sidamo Province [= Oromia Province], vi.1994, J. Werner leg., 1 ♂ (BAQ);

Notes

Bryant (1941) described the species N. viridipennis from Uganda, however the examination of the holotype and other material attributed to this taxon allow us to consider N. viridipennis only as a chromatic form of C. cyanipennis, more frequent in the eastern area of its distribution. In addition, also N. cyanipennis macrosoma Bechyné shows no significant diagnostic character if compared to the typical form.

Distribution

Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia (Fig. 17). Afro-Intertropical chorotype (AIT) (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2006).

Ecological data

Host plant is unknown. This species seems to be associated mainly with tropical lowland and montane humid forest ecosystems, more rarely with grassland and savannah environments.

Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931

Notomela fulvicollis Bryant, 1931: 255; Bechyné 1960: 32.

Type material examined

Lectotype designation: Durban, Natal, 27-10.22 / feeding on Fagara capensis / Ser. No. 1378 [29°51'29"S, 31°01'09"E], ♂ (M. Biondi des.) (BMNH). Further material studied. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: Limpopo, Modimolle [24°42'S, 28°24'22"E], 30.xii.2008, M. Snižek leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); North-West Province, Transvaal, road to Potchefstroom, 20 km N of Potchefstroom [26°32'S, 27°00'E], 1500 m, 8.xi.1993, M Bologna leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Gauteng, Pretoria [25°43'S, 28°17'E], xi.1928, N.K. Munro leg., feeding on leaves of Xanthoxylon capensis, 3 specimens (BMNH); Transvaal, Potchefstroom [26°42'52"S, 27°05'49"E], xii.1952, F. Zumpt leg., 1 specimen (BAQ); Kwazulu-Natal, Ntendeka Wilderness Area, Ngomi Forest, 27°51'S, 31°23'E, 24–27.xi.2006, P. Burlisch leg., 2 specimens (BAQ); Port Natal (= Durban 29°51'29"S, 31°01'09"E], 1 specimen (BMNH); Eastern Cape Province, Pondoland, Port St. Johns [31°37'43"S, 29°31'12"E], ix.1923, R.E. Turner leg., 1 specimen (BMNH).

Distribution

Eastern part of the Republic of South Africa: Limpopo, North-West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province (Fig. 17). Bechyné (1960: 32) reported this species from the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo belge: Elisabethville [= Lubumbashi 11°40'S, 27°28'E], i.1939, H.J. Bredo), but this record needs further confirmation. Southern-Eastern African chorotype (SEA) (Biondi and D’Alessandro 2006).

Ecological data

Specie reported by Bryant (1931) as feeding on leaves of Zanthoxylum (reported as Fagara) capense (Thunb.) Harv. (Rutaceae) in South East Africa. Preferred ecosystems seem to be warm temperate forest and tropical lowland shrubland.

Notomela fulvofasciata Jacoby, 1903

Notomela fulvofasciata Jacoby, 1903: 308

Amphimela fulvofasciata (Jacoby, 1903), comb. n.

Type material examined

Holotype ♂: Cameroons, West Africa, Conrad (BMNH).

Notes

This species described from West Africa is really to attribute to the genus Amphimela Chapuis. Therefore we proposed the new combination above.

Notomela joliveti sp. n.

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Type series

Holotype ♂: “Is. Principe, Roca Inf. D. Henrique, iv.1901, L. Fea” [São Tomé and Principe: Principe Island, Infante Dom Enrique 1°34'02"N, 7°24'52"E] (MSNG). Paratypes (2 ♂♂): same locality, date and collector of the holotype (MSNG, BAQ).

Diagnosis

Notomela joliveti sp. n. is the smallest species of the genus (LB ♂ = 3.90–4.20 mm). This new species is easily distinguishable from both N. cyanipennis and N. fulvicollis for having: dorsal integuments unicolor (Fig. 3); head with densely and strongly punctated vertex and frons (Fig. 5); pronotum with weak but evident depressions on surface near anterior angles and base (Fig. 12); median lobe of aedeagus comparatively longer and less thickset (LE/LAED < 2.50) in ventral view and less curved, almost straight, in lateral view (Fig. 16).

Description

Holotype ♂. Dorsal integument (Fig. 3) entirely dark green black with evident metallic reflection. Body elliptical elongate (LB = 4.20 mm), clearly convex. Maximum pronotal width at distal third (WP = 1.98 mm); maximum elytral width at basal fifth (WE = 2.56 mm).

Frons and vertex (Fig. 5) subrugose, clearly punctate on microreticulate surface shagreened; frontal tubercles distant from each other, sub-quadrate, clearly delimited, with almost smooth surface; frontal grooves distally deep, particularly along ocular margin; interantennal space wide, distinctly wider than length of first antennomere; frontal carina large, not raised; clypeus short, sub-triangular; labrum sub-trapezoidal, brownish, with six setiferous punctures; palpi dark brown; eye sub-elliptical, normally sized; antennae filiform, about as long as half body length (LAN = 2.20 mm; LAN/LB = 0.52), with antennomeres 1-5 brownish and 6-11 gradually darker; length of each antennomere proportional to numerical sequence 26:14:18:14:15:16:15:16:18:18:25 (right antenna).

Pronotum (Fig. 12) sub-rectangular, strongly transverse (LP = 1.16 mm; WP/LP = 1.71), laterally clearly rounded forward and basally narrower than elytra; pronotal surface laterally and basally weakly depressed; basal margin very finely bordered, evenlyarcuate; lateral margin distinctly bordered, with small anterior setiferous pore; punctation finely and sparsely impressed on disc, more strongly and densely impressed on sides; surface sub-smooth. Scutellum large, sub-triangular, reddish-brown; surface almost smooth, just with very sparse and fine punctulation.

Elytra elongate (LE = 3.56 mm; LE/LP = 3.07), covering entire pygidium, laterally sub-parallel, very weakly arcuate, apically jointly rounded; punctures small but clearly impressed (Fig. 13), arranged in 9 semi-regular rows (+ 1 short scutellar row); first row in epipleural area very strongly impressed; interstriae flat with smooth and sparsely punctulated surface; humeral callus clearly prominent; macropterous metathoracic wings.

Leg strongly blackened, with partially reddish tarsi and femoro-tibial joints; hind tibia straight with no dentate external margin; apical spur of hind tibia short, reddish. First anterior and middle tarsomeres clearly dilated (Fig. 3).

Ventral surface blackish, partially reddish, with dense and rather uniformly distributed yellow pubescence; last abdominal sternite with a clear preapical depression with strongly punctated surface.

Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 16) thickset (LAED = 1.45 mm; LE/LAED = 2.45), in ventral view, smooth, laterally larger in distal half and distinctly narrowed in basal half; apex widely truncate, sub-trapezoidal; ventral sulcus weakly impressed in basal half, with evident longitudinal wide median carina basally and distally clearly expanded; dorsal sulcus obliterate; dorsal ligula well-developed, apically sub-rectangular; median lobe in lateral view almost straight, just slightly sinuate in distal half with apex bent in ventral direction.

Variation

♂ (n = 2): LE = 3.28 and 3.28 mm; WE = 2.32 and 2.60 mm; LP = 1.04 and 1.12 mm; WP = 1.76 and 1.92 mm; LAN = 1.88 and 2.00 mm; LAED = 1.45 and 1.45 mm; LB = 3.95 and 4.00 mm; LE/LP = 3.15 and 2.93; WE/WP = 1.32 and 1.35; WP/LP = 1.69 and 1.71; LE/LAED = 2.26 and 2.26; LAN/LB = 0.48 and 0.50.

Paratypes (two males) very similar in shape, sculpture and color to the holotype; one paratype not completely mature. Female unknown.

Etymology

With great pleasure we name the new species after our friend Pierre Jolivet, the “Great Old Man” of all the chrysomelid workers around the world.

Distribution

São Tomé and Principe: Principe Island (Eastern Cape Province) (Fig. 17).

Ecological notes

Host plant is unknown. Species probably associated with forest ecosystems.

Key to species

1	Dorsal integuments bicolor with reddish pronotum and blue or green elytra. Head with vertex and frons more sparsely and weakly punctated (Fig. 4 ). Pronotal surface without evident depressions (Figs 8, 10). Body size larger (generally LE+LP ≥ 4.80). Antennae comparatively shorter in male (LB/LAN ≤ 0.47). Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs 14–15) shorter and more thickset (LE/LAED ≥ 2.50) in ventral view and slightly curved in lateral view	2
–	Dorsal integuments unicolor dark green. Head with more densely and strongly punctated vertex and frons (Fig. 5). Pronotal surface with weak but evident depressions near anterior angles and pronotal base (Fig. 12). Body size smaller (LE+LP < 4.80 mm). Antennae comparatively longer in male (LB/LAN > 0.47). Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 16) longer and less thickset (LE/LAED < 2.50) in ventral view and almost straight in lateral view. Female unknown	N. joliveti sp. n.
2	Elytral punctation strongly impressed, generally partially arranged in double rows (Fig. 9). Elytra blue or green (f. viridipennis) with vivid metallic reflections. Pronotal punctation more densely strongly impressed on disc (Fig. 8). Body larger (generally LE+LP > 5.10 mm). Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 14) longer (LAED> 1.40 mm), in ventral view wider in distal half, with ventral sulcus laterally more deeply impressed; in lateral view with a distinct median hump on ventral side. Spermatheca in Fig. 7A (LSPc = 0.49 mm)	N. cyanipennis Jacoby
–	Elytral punctation more weakly impressed, generally partially arranged in singular rows (Fig. 11). Elytra dark blue with weak metallic reflections. Pronotal punctation more sparsely and finely impressed on disc (Fig. 10). Body smaller (generally LE+LP ≤ 5.10 mm). Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 15) shorter (LAED ≤ 1.40 mm) in ventral view narrower in distal half, with ventral sulcus laterally less deeply impressed; in lateral view with a just visible median hump on ventral side. Spermatheca in Fig. 7B (LSPc = 0.49 mm)	N. fulvicollis Bryant

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to all colleagues and friends who enabled us to study material in their respective institutions: Wouter Dekoninck (IRSNB), Marc De Meier (RMCA), Michael Geiser (BMNH), Roberto Poggi (MSNG) and Eva Sprecher (NHMB).

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