Cardiophorus aranyos, 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 : 467

Cardiophorus aranyos sp. n.

( Figs 37 , 90)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Afghanistan: “N. Afghanistan Prov. Herat coll. O. Jakeš Bala Murghab, 3. 4–15. 4. 1964 550 m (9)” ( HNHM). One paratype, male: same data as holotype (CPG).

Diagnosis. The species resembles C. neoalienus Platia et Gudenzi, 1999 from the Middle East in general shape, colour and antennae, but it is separated by the shortly hooked apices of paramera of aedeagus and the reduced hindwings.

Description. Male ( Fig. 37 ). Shiny black, with brownish femora and yellowish tibiae and tarsi; covered with a very long, dense yellow-golden pubescence.

Frons flat, slightly impressed at anterior margin, moderately thickened, regularly arcuate, directed downwards; punctures very fine, simple, approximately of same size, with very short, shiny intervals.

Antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by about two antennomeres, slightly serrate from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, 1.4× longer than wide, third to tenth subtriangular, third 2.2× longer than second and forurth to tenth subequal in length, on average twice or slightly more than twice longer than wide; last as long as penultimate, symmetrically constricted in apical third.

Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest before anterior third, very convex, sides very arcuate, from anterior third more sharply converging, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, these short, not divergent, lateral margin obsolete; puncturation uniformly scattered, punctures very fine, simple, of same size, with very narrow, shiny intervals.

Scutellum heart-shaped with rounded apex, as long as wide, moderately impressed and finely punctured.

Elytra 2.3–2.4× longer than and as wide as pronotum, convex, oval, widest at middle; striae marked, indistinctly punctured; interstriae flat with very dense and fine punctures.

Hindwings reduced.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 90. (length 1.12 mm).

Claws simple.

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.1–5.6 mm; width 1.87–1.93 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the yellow-golden pubescence on the pronotum; “ aranyos ” means “golden” in Hungarian.

Figures

FIGURE 37. Cardiophorus aranyos sp. n., holotype, male habitus. 38. Cardiophorus burkus sp. n., holotype female habitus. 39. Cardiophorus dichronychoides sp. n., holotype male habitus. 40. Cardiophorus nipponicus Lewis, 1894, male habitus. 41 – 42. Cardiophorus podlussanyi sp. n.: 41 = holotype, male habitus 42 = female habitus. 43 – 44. Cardiophorus tenuis sp. n.: 43 = holotype, female habitus, 44 = male habitus. 45. Dicronychus berrai Platia et Gudenzi, 2003, male habitus. 46. Dicronychus decoroides sp. n., holotype, male habitus. 47 – 48. Dicronychus diluvii sp. n.: 47 = holotype, male habitus, 48 = female habitus. 49. Dicronychus fabiani sp. n.: holotype, male habitus. 50 – 51. Dicronychus gurjevae sp. n.: 50 = holotype, female habitus, 51 = male habitus. Not to scale.