A taxonomic review of the genus Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) of the Caucasus, Iran and Turkmenistan
Author
Nabozhenko, Maxim V.
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-01
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Euboeus
(
Pelorinus
)
zoroaster
(
Seidlitz, 1895
)
(
Fig. 7
)
Helops zoroaster
Seidlitz, 1895: 714
, 751;
Probaticus
(
Pelorinus
)
zoroaster
:
Reitter, 1922: 35
;
Kühnelt, 1957: 79
;
Probaticus zoroaster
:
Medvedev & Nepesova, 1985: 149
(fig. 93), 152;
Nabozhenko, 2009: 420
;
Helops diabolinus
Brancsik, 1899:
101
t. 4, f. 5, synonymized by
Nabozhenko (2009)
;
Zophohelops diabolinus
:
Reitter, 1922: 118
, nota.
Full bibliography for this species is published by
Nabozhenko (2009)
.
FIGURE 7.
Euboeus zoroaster
, habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = male, ventrally; C = surface of metaventrite; D = surface of abdomen; E = female, dorsally; F = male, head and pronotum, dorsally; G = ditto, dorso-laterally; H = prothoracic hypomeron; I = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; J = spiculum gastrale; K = tegmen, ventrally; L = median lobe of aedeagus, ventrally; M = apex of median lobe, ventrally; N = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally.
Type material.
Not studied. The
holotype
,
♀
(type locality: “
Askabad
”, now
Ashgabad
,
Turkmenistan
) originated from the collection of
O. Staudinger
, which is currently deposited (at least beetles) in SNSD. The
holotype
was not found by the curator of the SNSD collection Olaf Jäger.
Material.
Turkmenistan
.
1♀
(
HNHM
)
:
“Trans Caspi Eylandt” (
Turkmenistan
,
Transcaspian area
);
2♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Zakaspiyskaya
oblast’ (
Turkmenistan
,
Transcaspian area
)),
Aydere
canyon,
10.v.1890
(leg.
Eylandt
);
1♂
,
1♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Kopetdag
,
Aydere
,
3.v.1930
(leg.
E. Shestopalov
);
1♂
,
2♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Aydere
canyon,
0–3 km
from river mouth,
30.iv.1952
(leg.
K.G. Romadina
);
2♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Kara-Kala
(=
Garrygala
), N slope of
Syunt Mt.
,
2.vii.1956
(leg.
G.S. Medvedev
);
1♂
(
ZIN
)
,
1♀
(
HNHM
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Kara-Kala
, a canyon on N slope of
Syunt Mt.
,
6.v.1957
(leg.
G.S. Medvedev
);
4♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Kara-Kala
,
Savudzhe
canyon,
8.v.1957
,
11.v.1957
(leg.
G.S. Medvedev
);
1♀
(
ZIN
)
Turkmenistan
, N of
Kara-Kala
,
10.v.1957
(leg.
G.S. Medvedev
);
1♂
,
1♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
W Kopetdag
, headwaters of
Khozly
canyon,
20.04.1975
,
23.04.1975
(leg. V. Yanushev);
1♀
(
HNHM
)
:
Turkmenistan
,
Kopet-Dag Mts
,
10 km
S Aydere
,
38°14ʹN
,
56°46ʹE
,
600–1000 m
,
27.vi.1992
(leg.
Gy Fábián, B. Herczig, A. Podlussány, Z. Varga
)
.
Iran
.
1♂
,
1♀
(
NMPC
)
: NE
Iran
,
Khorasan
,
Golestan
forest
55 km
NE Minudast
,
37°20ʹN
/
56°00ʹE
,
840 m
,
17.vi.2000
(
S. Kadlec
);
2♂
,
1♀
(
HNHM
)
:
Iran
,
Golestan
,
Golestan
forest,
45 km
NE of Minudasht
,
584 m
,
16.vi.2015
(leg.
A. Lasoń
);
37°23‘N
,
55°50‘E
,
9♂
,
4♀
(
PCMN
)
:
Iran
,
North
Khorassan Prov.
,
Golestan
National
park,
37°22‘46.33“N
,
55°51‘5.56“E
, ~
600 m
,
24–25.v.2016
(leg.
D.G. Kasatkin
);
1♂
,
2♀
(
ZIN
)
:
Iran
,
North
Khorassan Prov.
,
Golestan
National
park,
37°22ʹ6ʺN
,
55°56ʹ40.6ʺE
,
26–27.v.2017
(leg.
D.G. Kasatkin
)
.
Turkmenistan
/
Iran
.
1♀
(
HNHM
)
:
“Arwas Pers. b.” (
Kopetdag Mts.
,
Arvaz
pass between
Iran
(
North Khorasan Prov.
) and
Turkmenistan
)
.
Distribution.
South West
Turkmenistan
(Kopetdag),
Iran
(
North Khorasan Province
).
Note.
This is the only species of the genus that occurs in
Turkmenistan
.