Notes on Four Species of Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey
Author
Kabalak, Mahmut
Author
Sert, Osman
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2010
2010-06-30
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/072.064.0214
journal article
10.1649/072.064.0214
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Tolphorea turcica
Platia and Gudenzi, 2000
(
Figs. 2
,
7
)
This species was described by Platia and Gudenzi (2000) based on a female.
Male Description.
The male can be separated from the female by the shorter and narrower body; antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by about 0.5 articles; pronotum slightly longer than wide and lower elytral:pronotal length ratio. The median lobe is clearly longer than the parameres (
Fig. 5
) and the apex is pointed; sides of parameres are sinuate, without distal teeth, and apices of parameres are slightly pointed; basal piece ‘U’ shaped. Length
3.86 mm
, width
1.27 mm
. In comparison to drawings of the aedeagi of
Tolphorea bicolor
Cate, Platia, and Schimmel, 2002
and
Tolphorea volans
Gurjeva, 1983
(
Cate
et al
. 2002
) and a description of the aedeagus of
Tolphorea pallida
Platia, 2003 (
Platia 2004
)
, male specimens of
T. turcica
are distinctly differentiated by the absence of distal teeth on the parameres.
Figs. 1–4. 1)
Craspedostethus dilutus
(habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm);
2)
Tolphorea turcica
. (habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm);
3)
Anostirus purpureus
(habitus, male) (scale = 2 mm);
4)
Peripontius jagemanni
(habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm).
Figs. 5–6.
Anostirus purpureus
.
5)
Male anal sternite;
Locality Record.
1 male
:
Adıyaman
:
Gölbaşı Boruk mountain
, (
37°53′08″N
37°43′04″E
),
1,100 m
,
02.V.2008
, leg.
E. Yağmur. Also
known from the
holotype
female:
Adıyaman
:
Nemrut mountain
,
1,700 m
,
13–15.V.1997
, leg.
G. Magnani
(Platia and Gudenzi 2000)
.
World Distribution.
Turkey
(
Cate 2007
; Mertlik and Platia 2008).
6)
Female anal sternite. Scale =
1 mm
.
Notes.
There are three species of
Tolphorea
Gurjeva,
1983
in
Turkey
(Mertlik and Platia 2008). Platia and Gudenzi (2000) described
T. turcica
from only a single female specimen.