Revision of the genus Odocnemis Allard, 1876 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran with observations on feeding habits
Author
Nabozhenko, Maxim
Author
Keskin, Bekir
text
Zootaxa
2016
4202
1
1
97
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4202.1.1
726c8af4-e8a8-46cb-ab0b-0ef22e432dae
1175-5326
192220
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Odocnemis protina
species-group
Description.
Body
not large (length up to
12 mm
) shining.
Temples
with groove in anterior part
Hypomera
with distinct longitudinal wrinkles and without punctation.
Elytra
with small distinct sparse tubercles apically and laterally.
Epipleura
and their inner narrow carina not reaching sutural angle of elytra, 8th elytral interval weakly convex and connected with margin of elytra. Dorsal elitral carina not reaching apex of elytra.
Wings
small, less than half of elytral length.
Abdominal ventrites.
Male abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 often with hair brush. Anal ventrite without depression in both sexes.
Legs
. Male pro-, mesotibia with distinct teeth, metatibiae sometimes with granules. Femora smooth and shining on inner side. Each trochanter can be with hair brush or one long seta.
Male genitalia
. Apical piece weakly thickened in basal 2/3 (lateral view), without dorsal longitudinal depression, weakly S-shaped (lateral view). Basal piece 1.7 × as long as apical piece. Median lobe baculi not merged, acute on apex. Gastral spicula with narrow, weakly bent branches. Male inner sternite VIII wide, with rounded apices, dense punctation and short setaetion on inner side and dense pubescence on apices.
Distribution.
North-western
Turkey
, the Balkans,
Northern
Iran
(
Gilan
).
Composition.
At least
O. protina
,
O. operta
,
O. exarata
.