Dicronychus karolyvigi, 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 : 478-479

Dicronychus karolyvigi sp. n.

(Figs 57, 118–120)

Material examined. Holotype, female: Iran: “ IRAN, Prov. Busehr 5 km S of Delvaz, 20 m 51°02'11''E 28°43'04''N 5–6.V.2001. leg: Gy. Fábián & K. Vig” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species is close to D. truncatus Platia et Akrawi, 2013 from Iraqi Kurdistan with similar general shape, colour and the same kind of pronotal puncturation, but it can be separated by the scutellum being deeply emarginate at middle of base and by the sclerites of the bursa copulatrix.

Description. Female (Fig. 57). Head, pronotum and scutellum darker, brownish; elytra lighter, yellowish with blackish shadings on apical third; antennae and legs yellow-testaceous; covered with dense, short, yellowish pubescence.

Frons flat, anterior margin moderately thickened and regularly curved, directed downwards; punctures fine, dense, approximately of same diameters, with very short, shiny, intervals.

Antennae mutilated (left absent), right with only seven antennomeres (not reaching apices of posterior angles), slightly serrated from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, twice longer than wide, third to seventh subtriangular, on average 2.6× longer than wide.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest near anterior third, strongly convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base, with a trace of mid-longitudinal depression at basal slope; sides arcuate, gradually narrowing forwards from anterior third, less gradually converging backwards, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter short, truncate, slightly divergent, shortly carinate; lateral margin fine, obsolete before anterior margin; puncturation double, very fine punctures mixed more or less regularly with larger (on average 4–6 smaller punctures falling to one larger).

Scutellum heart-shaped, slightly longer than wide, depressed in posterior half, moderately emarginate at middle of base, very finely punctured.

Elytra 2.5× longer than and a little wider than pronotum at middle, convex; sides widest behind middle; striae deeply punctured; interstriae moderately convcex with very fine and denser punctures.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 118, asymmetrical piece with a circular base as in Fig. 119, furca as in Fig. 120.

Male unknown.

Claws dentate.

Size. Length 6.6 mm; width 2.18 mm.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to one of the collectors, Károly Vig, deputy director of the Savaria Museum, Szombathely, Hungary.