Cardiophorus aranyos Németh & Platia, 2014, sp. n.
| Main Authors: | Németh, T., Platia, G. |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2014
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6125008 |
Daftar Isi:
- Cardiophorus aranyos sp. n. (Figs 37, 90) Material examined. Holotype, male: Afghanistan: “N. Afghanistan Prov. Herat coll. O. Jakeš Bala Murghab, 3. 4–15. 4. 1964 550 m (9)” (HNHM). One paratype, male: same data as holotype (CPG). Diagnosis. The species resembles C. neoalienus Platia et Gudenzi, 1999 from the Middle East in general shape, colour and antennae, but it is separated by the shortly hooked apices of paramera of aedeagus and the reduced hindwings. Description. Male (Fig. 37). Shiny black, with brownish femora and yellowish tibiae and tarsi; covered with a very long, dense yellow-golden pubescence. Frons flat, slightly impressed at anterior margin, moderately thickened, regularly arcuate, directed downwards; punctures very fine, simple, approximately of same size, with very short, shiny intervals. Antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by about two antennomeres, slightly serrate from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, 1.4 × longer than wide, third to tenth subtriangular, third 2.2 × longer than second and forurth to tenth subequal in length, on average twice or slightly more than twice longer than wide; last as long as penultimate, symmetrically constricted in apical third. Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest before anterior third, very convex, sides very arcuate, from anterior third more sharply converging, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, these short, not divergent, lateral margin obsolete; puncturation uniformly scattered, punctures very fine, simple, of same size, with very narrow, shiny intervals. Scutellum heart-shaped with rounded apex, as long as wide, moderately impressed and finely punctured. Elytra 2.3–2.4 × longer than and as wide as pronotum, convex, oval, widest at middle; striae marked, indistinctly punctured; interstriae flat with very dense and fine punctures. Hindwings reduced. Aedeagus as in Fig. 90. (length 1.12 mm). Claws simple. Female unknown. Size. Length 5.1–5.6 mm; width 1.87–1.93 mm. Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the yellow-golden pubescence on the pronotum; “ aranyos ” means “golden” in Hungarian.
- Published as part of Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, pp. 451-490 in Zootaxa 3841 (4) on page 467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/229391