. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Volker Assing: Eastern Mediterranean Medon Species 65 Puncturation of head very dense, but not very coarse, in- terstices reduced to narrow ridges; surface mat. Prono- tum often with shallow longitudinal impressions on ei- ther side of midline; puncturation fine, distinctly finer than that of head, not rugose, and dense, but less dense than that of head; interstices approximately as wide as punctures and with indistinct microsculpture; surface with some shine. Elytr
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Volker Assing: Eastern Mediterranean Medon Species 65 Puncturation of head very dense, but not very coarse, in- terstices reduced to narrow ridges; surface mat. Prono- tum often with shallow longitudinal impressions on ei- ther side of midline; puncturation fine, distinctly finer than that of head, not rugose, and dense, but less dense than that of head; interstices approximately as wide as punctures and with indistinct microsculpture; surface with some shine. Elytra relatively long, at suture (from scutellar apex to hind margin) approximately times as long as pronotum; suture weakly elevated; punctura- tion finely granulöse and dense; surface in most speci- mens with subdued shine; hind wings fully developed. Abdomen with very fine and dense puncturation and with shallow microsculpture; surface mat; tergum VII with palisade fringe. sternum VII posteriorly with broad and deep excava- tion, laterally with comb-like rows of 7-9 dark stout and dark palisade setae, middle of hind margin finely in- cised, without setae; stemite VIII posteriorly broadly and deeply concave; aedeagus with long ventral process of distinctive shape. For figures of the male sexual char- acters see Assing & Wunderle (2001a). Comparative notes: In the similar and probably closely related Medon beroni from Crete, the puncturation of the head is distinctly coarser and partly rugosely conflu- ent, the puncturation of the pronotum is composed of partly confluent and ill-defined punctures of various sizes, the pronotal midline is impunctate and shining, the puncturation of the elytra and the abdomen is coarser, the palisade setae at the hind margin of the male sternum VII are somewhat shorter and more nu- merous (9-11), and the ventral process of the aedeagus is shorter, apically acute in ventral view, and less slen- der in lateral view. From the two congeners kn
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