On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *
Author
Németh, T.
Author
Platia, G.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3841
4
451
490
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.1
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1175-5326
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Hemicrepidius rahmei
sp. n.
(
Figs 2–4
, 71)
Material examined.
Holotype
, male:
Iran
: “
IRAN
, prov.
Fars
Persepolis ~
1200 m
,
25–26.V.1999
Ex
im. singled leg.: N. Rahmé” (
HNHM
).
Diagnosis.
A species distinct from all the other congeners of the region by having the short antennae with antennomeres clearly serrated only from fourth antennomere on.
Description.
Male (
Fig. 2
). Shiny; head, pronotum and scutellum black, elytra and antennae dark-brown with ferruginous shadings; legs with femora blackish, tibia and tarsi yellow-ferruginous; covered with dense, long, partially erect, yellow-fulvous pubescence.
Head with eyes narrower than anterior margin of pronotum, frons flat between eyes, slightly impressed before anterior margin, impression almost reaching clypeus at middle; punctures coarse, umbilicate, with very short, shiny intervals.
Antennae (
Fig. 3
) reaching apices of posterior angles of pronotum serrated from fourth antennomere on; second antennomere subcylindrical, slightly longer than wide, third subconical, slightly longer than second; second and third, taken together, 1.25× longer than fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, gradually slenderer, on average less than twice longer than wide; last longer than penultimate, ellipsoidal.
Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest at apices of posterior angles, moderately convex; sides nearly and gradually tapering from base to apex, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter short, truncate, not divergent, with very short and fine carina directed inwards; puncturation irregularly distributed, punctures on the disk deep, simple, with variable, shiny, intervals equal to smaller than puncture diameters, only slightly denser towards the sides.
Scutellum shield-shaped, moderately convex in first half, finely punctured.
Elytra 3× longer than pronotum, a little wider than it, moderately convex; sides subparallel in basal two-thirds then gradually tapering to apices; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae slightly convex, densely punctured with pseudorugose surface.
Prosternal process (
Fig. 4
) abruptly and immediately bent behind procoxal cavities, not emarginate at apex.
Aedeagus as in Fig. 71.
Female unknown.
Size. Length
9.7 mm
; width
2.68 mm
.
Etymology.
The species is dedicated to the collector, Nikola Rahmé, insect photographer and collector of
Buprestidae
, Budapest.