Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan Author Akhter, Muhammad Atique Author Drumont, Alain Author Rizvi, Syed Anser Author Ahmed, Zubair text Zootaxa 2012 3223 40 54 journal article 45295 10.5281/zenodo.280288 ca2bff2d-7ebd-4c91-97c9-76fb339a4ef9 1175-5326 280288 Agrypnus dadarensis sp. n. (Figs: 1 & 2) Material examined. Holotype male, Pakistan ; Kheybar Pakhton Khoa Province, Dadar, 10. vii. 2004 , leg. Zubair ( NHMUK ). Measurement. ( Holotype ) Length 11.00 mm; width 5.00 mm. Coloration. Reddish-black, legs and antennae blackish-brown, covered with dense vestiture. Head. Small, rhomboidal, concave; frons dilated anteriorly, clypeus with anterior margin rounded and deflexed laterally, deep punctures with dense vestiture; antennae exceeding beyond the mid of pronotum, basal antennomere robust, 2nd and 3rd antennomeres smaller than others, 2nd antennomere broader and slightly longer than 3rd antennomere, apically subtruncate, 3rd antennomere narrower than 2nd antennomere, apically rounded, last antennomere elongate, slightly deflexed apically. Thorax. Pronotum slightly broader than long, sides entire, thoroughly convex on disc, gently slopes at sides, fine punctation, with dense vestiture, hind angles emerginated, apices subrounded; prosternum deeply punctured with dense vestiture; propleurae with grooved for reception of anterior tarsi; scutellum shield shaped, covered with dense, recumbent vestiture; elytra with basal margin broader than base of pronotum, widest at middle, narrower apically, strial margin of 6 and 7 row deeply punctate, interstriae convex, impunctate. Male genitalia. (Fig: 2) Aedeagus with median lobe longer than parameres, narrow, tubular with rounded apex; parameres elongate, dilated at base, angulate beyond the middle; two median struts lying under the base of parameres. Female. Unknown Etymology. This species is named for the type locality. Diagnosis. The new species most closely resembles A. piger (Candèze) in the pronotum being broader than long, propleurae with grooves for reception of anterior tarsi, antennae extended beyond the middle of pronotum, aedeagus (Fig: 7) with median lobe much narrower towards apex, acuminate, apices of parameres angulate laterally, basal plate entirely broad, but it can easily separated by having rhomboidal head in shape, emarginated hind angles of pronotum and metasternum without grooves for accommodating the anterior tarsi, aedeagus with median lobe tubular, apex rounded, apices of parameres straight, sides of basal plate rounded, base truncate with distinct angles.