Study of Laemostenus species across Zagros and Central zone of Iran, with the description of seven new cavernicolous species and notes on subgenus Iranosphodrus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)
Author
Tahami, Mohadeseh Sadat
Author
Muilwijk, Jan
Author
Lohaj, Roman
Author
Sadeghi, Saber
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-06
4344
1
115
136
journal article
31619
10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.4
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1175-5326
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Antisphodrus glasunowi
species-group
This species-group was established by
Casale (1988)
for three Iranian species:
L. (A.) glasunowi
(Semenov, 1895)
,
L. (A.) mirzayani
(Morvan, 1973)
and
L. (A.) iranicus
(
Dvořák, 1982
)
. Later on three turkish
L. (A.) bulirschi
Dvořák, 1995
,
L. (A.) baehri
Casale, 1997
and
L. (A.) hroni
Dvoøák, 1998
, and two Iranian
L. (A.) deconincki
Casale & Quéinnec, 2001
and
L. (A.) sulaimanensis
Morvan, 2004
species were placed to this species-group (
Dvořák, 1995
,
1998
;
Casale, 1997
;
Casale & Quéinnec, 2001
;
Morvan 2004
).
Definition of the
glasunowi
group according to the original description of
Casale (1988)
: head with two pairs of supraorbital setae, lateral bead of pronotum with one pair of antero-lateral setae and one pair of baso-setae in posterior angles, antennomere 3 without accessory hairs, mesosternum denticulate before mesocoxae. Protibiae without accessory hairs at anterior sides, tarsi with short and dense, decumbent pubescence. Aedeagus small and arcuate, basal bulb well developed. This species-group includes species distributed in Eastern
Turkey
(Aladağlari, Bolkar dağlari Mts.) and
Iran
(
Elburz
and Zagros Mts.).