Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula
Author
Mertlik, Josef
Pohřebačka 34, CZ- 53345 Opatovice nad Labem, Czech Republic
mertlik@elateridae.com
Author
Németh, Tamás
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Baross u. 13, H- 1088 Budapest, Hungary
haesito@gmail.com
Author
Kundrata, Robin
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, CZ- 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
robin.kundrata@upol.cz
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-01-13
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Dima
Charpentier, 1825
Dima
Charpentier, 1825
: 191
. =
Celox
Schaufuss, 1862
: 201
.
Type species:
Dima elateroides
Charpentier, 1825
: 191
. =
Celox dima
Schaufuss, 1862
: 202
.
Diagnosis.
The current generic concept of
Dima
includes morphologically diverse species from the
Iberian Peninsula
, the
Balkan Peninsula
, the
Himalayas
, East and South
East Asia
. Species from the
Balkan Peninsula
, including the
type
species
Dima elateroides
, can be recognized by the following combination of characters: body medium-sized, robust, more or less oval, 8.0–
17.1 mm
long, 2.3–2.6 times as long as wide, pale brown to blackishbrown (
Figs 1–118
), antennae weakly serrate, surpassing the pronotal posterior angles by about 1–4 antennomeres, antennomere III shortest (or subequal to antennomere II), antennomeres IV–X 1.5–2.1 times as long as wide, pronotum 1.3–1.6 times as wide as long, moderately convex dorsally, with anterior angles obtuse and posterior angles prominent, acute, more or less distinctly produced outward, tarsomeres III–IV lobate ventrally, and a typically elongate aedeagus with narrow paramera, and apical lobe bearing a more or less developed tooth (
Figs 172–221
). Species of
Dima
from the Iberian Peninsula differ in having the antennae with short, bulbous, subtriangular antennomeres, and the Asian species in having much longer antennae, often reaching beyond metacoxae, and in the differently shaped male genitalia (
Schimmel 1996
,
Schimmel & Platia 2008
, and personal observations).