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 marvani
Mertlik & Dusanek, 2006
Figs 62–65
,
144
,
198
,
243
.
Dima marvani
Mertlik & Dusanek, 2006
: 147
;
Schimmel & Platia 2008
: 569
.
Type depositories.
Holotype, ♂ (PCJM); allotype, ♀ (PCJM);
3 paratypes
,
1 ♂
,
2 ♀♀
(
PCRM
,
PCRS
,
PCRU
).
Type
locality.
Montenegro
:
Lovčen Mts.
[
Kotor Mts.
],
Njeguš–Rajčeviči
(
42°25'28.87"N
,
18°49'5.43"E
),
880 m
.
Redetermined
material.
MONTENEGRO
:
Rumija Mts.
,
Virpazar
[Virpozar], 20.
VI.1984, 1
♀,
M. & J. Hladilovi
leg. (as
D. dalmatina
in
Schimmel & Platia 2008
) (
PCRS
).
New
material.
MONTENEGRO
:
Njeguši
vill. env.,
1000–1200 m
(
42°25'30.09"N
,
18°50'45.00"E
), 7.– 10.
V.2014, 1
♂, fagetum,
Jan Habarta
leg. (
PCJM
).
Diagnosis.
Dima marvani
is a medium-sized species (body length:
9.5–12.8 mm
) with an elongate body shape, relatively long antennae (surpassing hind angles by 3.5–4.5 segments), shiny pronotum with sides with the short semi-erect setae along the whole length, elytra with short dense decumbent pubescence, and the elytral interstices matt, microreticulated. This species can be easily distinguished from
D
.
elateroides
by the denser body pubescence and matt elytra (
Figs 22–24
,
62–65
), from
D
.
moraveci
by the more elongate body shape and microreticulated surface of elytra (
Fig. 66
), and from
D
.
pelikani
sp. nov.
by the shiny pronotum (
Figs 144, 151
).
Dima marvani
is very like
D. dalmatina
(
Figs 14–19
,
62–65
). The specimens from the
type
locality (Lovčen Mts.) differ from the typical
D. dalmatina
by the less distinct keel between the frons and clypeus, longer antennae in males (more than 60% of the body length), longer pronotum (1.3 times wider than long), pronotal pubescence sparser, near sides of pronotum directed towards sides (
Figs 62–63
), and apical lobe of paramera longer (
Fig. 198
).
Intraspecific variability.
The specimens from Rumija Mts. have a darker body, almost no keel between the frons and clypeus, slightly longer antennae, and more convex and shorter pronotum than the specimens from Lovčen Mts. (
Figs 64–65
). Similar variability in Rumija Mts. is known also for the very similar
D. dalmatina
(
Figs 18–19
). More material of both species from different collecting sites is needed for further conclusions.
Distribution.
Montenegro
(Lovčen Mts., Rumija Mts.;
Fig. 243
).