The genus Evides Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) belongs to the family of woodboring
beetles commonly known as jewel beetles. This comparative study was undertaken on
the morphological characteristics of three species from field specimens, private collections
and collections at the Transvaal Museum of Natural History. The genus Evides consists of
eleven species and one subspecies in total worldwide. Nine species and one subspecies are
endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. One species is recorded from India and further species from
Laos and Vietnam: Bellamy (World Catalogue, in prep.) The objective of the study was to
quantify morphological differences between species representing the genus in South Africa.
Specimens of E. gambiensis (Laporte & Gory, 1835), E. interstitialis (Obenberger, 1924) and
E. pubiventris (Laporte & Gory, 1835) were collected in the Waterberg (Limpopo Province)
and additional specimens of E. pubiventris were collected at Ezemvelo Nature Reserve
(Gauteng Province). All three species are related, difficult to differentiate in the field and
occur on the same host plants, marula (Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich.) Hochst.) and false
marula (Lannea discolor (Sonder) Engl.). Results indicate that there are morphological
differences and species can be differentiated according to elytra length, total elytron width,
eye size, frons length, frons width and abdomen length.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001013 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | MacFadyen, DN, Reilly, BK, Bellamy, CL, Eiselen, RJ |
| Publisher | The Coleopterists Bulletin |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | The Coleopterists Bulletin |
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