TABLE 1 in Resurrection of Oxythyrea abigailoides Mikšić, 1978 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) based on new morphological, morphometrical and molecular data

TABLE 1. Character matrix for separation of Oxythyrea abigailoides Mikšić, 1978, resurrected species, and O. dulcis Reitter, 1899 adults (in older worn specimens, the whitish pattern may be abraded to varying degrees). characterO. abigailoides Mikšić, 1978, resurrected speciesO. dulcis Reitter, 1899whitish pattern on pronotumlateral margin as a rule with three distinctly separated spots from each other on each side (Figs. 2A, 3A), rarely with interrupted lines consisting of three semicontiguous spotslateral margin as s rule with narrow stripe (Figs. 2C, 3B), in some specimens this stripe broken into three irregularly shaped spotsscutellum surfacefinely shallowly microsculptured (Fig. 3C)completely smooth (Fig. 3D)lamina exterior of parameresrelatively less stout in lateral aspect (Fig. 4A–C)relatively more stout in lateral aspect (Fig. 4D–F)lamina interior of parameresrelatively narrower, tip at sharper angle in dorsofrontal aspect (Fig. 4A–C)wider, tip at less sharp angle in dorsofrontal aspect (Fig. 4D–F)distributionAdriatic-Ionian populations (Montenegro, Greece – Ionian coast of Peloponnesos) (Fig. 6)Aegean populations (Aegean coast of Greece, incl. islands Andros, Crete, Limnos and Rhodes, Western and Southern coast of Turkey) (Fig. 6)