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MIKHAIL L. DANILEVSKY, KAREL HODEK. 2016.
New species of the genus Cortodera Mulsant, 1863 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Georgia.
Ecologica Montenegrina, 2016, 8: 55-57.
ISSN 2336-9744 (online) | ISSN 2337-0173 (print)
The journal is available on line at www.biotaxa.org/em
https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C410D2EF-32EC-456A-9B5A-08219B21F323
Cortodera goriensis sp. n.
Materials. Holotype, male, Georgia, 4 km NE Gori, 42°00'27"N, 44°10'05"E, 950-1050m, 8-9.5.2016, Pavel
Turek leg. - collection of M.L. Danilevsky; 172 paratypes (52 males with yellow elytra, 51 males with black
elytra, 37 females with yellow elytra, 32 females with black elytra); 3 males and 4 females with same label
as holotype - collection of M.L. Danilevsky; 24 males, 15 females with same label as holotype - collection
P. Turek (Lanskroun, Czech Republic); 23 males, 5 females, same locality, 16.5.2915, L. Havlik leg. -
collection L. Havlik (Jedlova, Czech Republic); 16 males, 11 females, same locality, 16 and 21.5.2915, D.
Navratil leg. - collection of D. Navratil (Litomysl, Czech Republic); 6 males, 8 females, same locality, 16
and 19.5.2915, P. Turek leg. - collection of P. Turek (Lanskroun, Czech Republic); 6 males, 8 female, same
locality, 21.5.2915, M. Rozsival leg. - collection of M. Rozsival (Rokytnice v Orlickych horach, Czech
Republic); 7 males, 3 females, same locality, 16 and 21.5.2915, D. Navratil leg. - collection of K. Hodek
(Brno, Czech Republic); 15 males, 15 females, same locality, 9.5.2016, V.Skoupy leg. - collection of V.
Skoupy (Kamenne Zehrovice, Czech Republic); 2 males, Georgia, Norio environs, 41°49'14"N, 44°57'56"E,
1034m, 22.5.2015, P. Turek leg. - collection of P. Turek (Lanskroun, Czech Republic); 1 male, Georgia,
Dedoplis Tskaro, 41°26'44.04"N, 46°00'48.15"E, 18.5.2015, P. Turek leg. - collection of P. Turek
(Lanskroun, Czech Republic).
Differential diagnosis. The new species is similar to C. differens Pic, but head wider, with strongly
prominent temples; forms with brown elytra have brown tibiae and partly brown antennae; pronotal and
elytral pubescence pale.
Figures 1-7. Cortodera goriensis sp. n.: Georgia, 4 km NE Gori, 42°00'27"N, 44°10'05"E, 950-1050m, 8-9.5.2016,
Pavel Turek leg.: 1 - Male, holotype; 2-3 - Males, paratypes; 4-5 - females, paratypes; 6 - aedeagus; 7 - parameres.
Description
Body wide, black with totally black abdomen; antennae black (forms with black elytra) or black with brown
(or partly brown) 2nd - 4th joints (forms with brown elytra), sometimes more joints are brownish, including
1st; legs black (forms with black elytra) or black with brown tibiae and often partly brown tarsi (forms with
brown elytra); tibiae apices can be more or less darkened; elytra black, or brown, or brown with narrowly
darkened suture behind scutellum.
Head wide with strongly exposed angulated temples; palpi black; last palpi joints triangular axe-like
or sometimes elongated (in males and in females); male antennae reaching posterior elytral third, female
antennae surpassing elytral middle; 2nd joint about as long as wide, 3rd joint about as long as 1st or a little
shorter; longer than 4th and shorter than 5th.
Prothorax transverse, in males about 1.1-1.2 times shorter than basal width, in females - about 1.2-
1.3 times; with rounded sides; pronotum with shallow depression along middle, with short glabrous shining
elongated area posteriorly; covered in males by long pale erect setae and a few short oblique setae, in
females erect setae shorter, mixed with more numerous short oblique setae; pronotal punctation dense and
distinct with contacting dots; scutellum small semicircular.
Elytra in males about 2.1 times longer than basal width, in females - about 2.0 times; covered by
short pale oblique pubescence with several erect setae near elytral bases in males; elytral sides in males
strongly converging posteriorly, in females - parallelsided; elytral punctation small, dense and distinct
anteriorly, by became less distinct near elytral apices; the distance between dots about equal to the width of
each dot.
Abdomen with dense oblique short pale pubescence, with several longer scattered setae; last abdominal tergites in males and females widely rounded or with shallow emargination in male pygidium, last
andominal sternites truncated.
Aedeagus (Fig. 6) strongly sharpened, parameres (Fig. 7) elongated about parallelsided.
Body length in males: 7.8-10.2 mm, in females: 8.0-10.3mm; body width in males: 2.4-3.5 mm, in
females: 2.7-3.6mm.
Etymology. The new species is named after the name of its type locality - Gori (Georgia).
Discussion. The new species belongs to C. discolor Fairmaire, 1866 group of species and could be compared
with its European representatives: C. differens differens Pic, 1898 (Greece) and C. differens magdae
Danilevsky, 2012 (Romania, Bulgaria) with just same color forms. The new species differs by shape of head
and palpi joints, by brown color of tibiae and certain antennal joints, by pale pronotal and elytral pubescence.
Biology. The beetles were observed on Centaurea flowers.
Distribution. Georgia; three populations known: 4 km NE Gori, 950-1050m,
42°00'27"N, 44°10'05"E;
Norio environs, 41°49'14"N, 44°57'56"E, 1034m;
Dedoplis Tskaro environs, 41°26'44.04"N, 46°00'48.15"E, 773m.