Athous (Haplathous) szalokii, Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014

Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, Zootaxa 3841 (4), pp. 451-490 : 458-459

Athous (Haplathous) szalokii sp. n.

( Figs 10–13 , 74)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Georgia: “CAUCASUS, Georgia, Lagodechi 8.VII.1990, leg. Szalóki” ( HNHM). 3 paratypes (1 male, 2 females): same data as holotype (1 female, HNHM, female CDSZ, 1 male, CPG).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to A. (Haplathous) korsosi Platia et Németh, 2011 , but it can be separated by the little longer antennae, the more quadrangular pronotum and the shape of paramera of male genitalia.

Description. Male ( Fig. 10 ). Head and pronotum darker, brown-ferruginous, remaining part of body lighter, yellow-ferruginous with undefined blackish shadings on elytra; covered with dense and long yellow-golden pubescence.

Frons flat, slightly impressed at moderately thickened anterior margin, arcuate, directed downwards, slightly protruding above clypeus; puncturation coarse, umbilicate, contiguous or confluent. Antennae ( Fig. 11 ) exceeding by one antennomere of posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrate from fourth antennomere on; second antennomere subconical, 1.7× longer than wide, third conical, 1.4× longer than second and twice longer than wide; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average 1.7× longer than wide, last longer than penultimate with subparallel sides symmetrically constricted at apical third.

Pronotum ( Fig. 12 ) as long as wide, widest slightly behind middle, convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; sides moderately arcuate to subparallel, posterior angles short, not divergent and not carinate; puncturation uniformly distributed, punctures deep, simple or vaguely umbilicate on disk, with very short, shiny intervals, gradually larger and distinctly umbilicate at sides, contiguous or confluent at lateral extremities.

Scutellum shield-shaped, as long as wide, moderately convex, occupying whole interelytral space, punctured punctures with very shortest, shiny intervals.

Elytra 2.8× longer than pronotum and as wide, convex; sides widest behind middle; striae well marked, superficially punctured; interstriae flat, densely punctured and with moderate wrinkled surface.

Tarsomeres regularly decreasing in length.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 74 (length 1.06 mm).

Female. ( Fig. 13 ). Very different from male with larger and more convex body; shorter antennae not reaching posterior angles of pronotum, elytra dilated behind middle

Size. Length 8.8–9.5 mm (male), 10.6–11 mm (female); width 2.5–2.6 mm (male); 3.18–3.37 mm (female).

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the collector of the type specimen, Dezső Szalóki, private coleopterist in Budapest.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 19. 1. Hartenius marocanus sp. n., holotype, male habitus. 2 – 4. Hemicrepidius rahmei sp. n.: 2 = holotype, male habitus, 3 = antenna, 4 = lateral view of prosternal process. 5 – 7. Roznerathous hellenicus sp. n.: 5 = holotype, male habitus, 6 = head, 7 = antenna. 8. Cidnopus macedonicus Cate et Platia, 1989, female habitus. 9. Cidnopus parallelus (Motschulsky, 1860), male habitus. 10 – 13. Athous szalokii sp. n.: 10 = holotype, male habitus, 11 = antenna, 12 = pronotum, 13 = female habitus. 14. Pseudocrepidophorus filicollis (Reitter, 1890), female habitus. 15. Glyphonyx occidentalis sp. n., holotype, male habitus. 16. Peripontius orchymonti Platia, 2008, female habitus. 17. Liotrichus affinis (Paykull, 1800), male habitus. 18 – 19. Astanchus ussuriensis (Gurjeva, 1975): 18 = male habitus, 19 = female habitus. Not to scale.