A taxonomic review of the genus Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) of the Caucasus, Iran and Turkmenistan
Author
Nabozhenko, Maxim V.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-01
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Euboeus
(
Pelorinus
)
prometheus
(
Reitter, 1902
)
(
Fig. 5
)
Helops prometheus
Reitter, 1902: 214
;
Probaticus
(
Pelorinus
)
prometheus
:
Reitter, 1922: 43
;
Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko, 2011: 149
(fig. 337), 150 (fig. 346), 169, 307.
Probaticus prometeus
:
Kühnelt, 1957: 79
Full bibliography for this species is published by
Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011
, p. 307).
FIGURE 5.
Euboeus prometheus
, holotype, male, habitus, details of structure. A = dorsally; B = ventrally; C = labels; D = head and pronotum, dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prothoracic hypomeron.
Type material.
Holotype
,
♂
(
HNHM
): “Talysch.”, “
Coll. Reitter
”, “
H. Prometheus
m. 1900 Type.”, “
Holotypus
1901
♂
Helops prometheus
Reitter
”.
Notes.
Reitter (1902)
listed “
1♂
♀
” in the original description, but I suggest that it is a misprint, because he described only male characters and only
one male
is deposited in HNHM. In the same paper, he always indicated whether a character refers to a female or a male for other species and wrote “
1 ♂
und
♀
”.
Distribution.
Iran
(Talysh). Extensive collecting efforts (more than 190 years) have not produced any records of this species in the territory of the modern Azerbaijani part of Talysh, where only
E. quadricollis
was collected in alpine meadows. In conclusion, I’m sure that the species occurs Iranian part of the Talysh Mountains and can be excluded from the Azerbaijani faunistic lists.
Reitter (1922)
also recorded
E. prometheus
for Astrabad (Now Gorgan,
Iran
), probably confusing it with
E. gorganicus
.
Kühnelt (1957)
recorded
E. prometheus
from the Caucasus and Central
Iran
; the second locality is erroneous. Abdurakhamanov & Nabozhenko (2011) partly mixed
E. prometheus
with females of
E. gorganicus
and erroneously recorded it for
Mazandaran Province
.