Heteroderes sabatinellii, Platia, 2015

Platia, Giuseppe, 2015, New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 3-52 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11372600
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:301AC6FF-B556-4638-A2FF-E558ABFB4135
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11372703
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A68783-FFB3-FC7A-F945-B578FCC8F8F4
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Heteroderes sabatinellii
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp.

( Figs. 21, 21a View Figs , 80 View Figs , 114 View Figs , 153 View Figs )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Islamabad , Sect. 7 (33°43'N, 73°03'E), 600 m, 20.VI.- 20.VII.2011, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light ( CPG). 1 Paratype ♂ - same data as HT ( CPG). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. A species well separated from all the known of the region for the smaller size, it can be compared to H. jagemanni n. sp. But it is separated for the lighter colour, posterior angles of pronotum yellowish, and the second and third antennal segments, taken together, much longer than fourth.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely dark brown with the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, antennae and legs yellowish; underside ferruginous; covered with very dense, recumbent, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Frons flat or moderately convex, anterior margin complete, straight, just protruding above the clypeus; punctures of variable size, with very short, shiny intervals or contiguous.

Antennae not reaching the apices of posterior angles of pronotum for about 1.5 articles, slightly serrate from the fourth article on; the second and third article subcylindrical with the second larger in diameter and a little longer than the third; the second and third, taken together, 1.5 x longer than the fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, fourth a little longer than following, fifth to tenth on average twice longer than wide, the last one a little longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum just longer than wide, widest at the middle and at the apices of posterior angles, convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; sides subparallel, very slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter acuminate, just divergent at apical extremity, with a short and fine carina running subparallel to the lateral margins, these complete and visible only at the basal third in a dorsal view; punctuation double, uniformly distributed, larger and simple punctures are regularly mixed with very fine punctures with very short, shiny intervals.

Scutellum shield-shaped, ridged at base, moderately convex and finely punctured.

Elytra 2.16-2.20x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, convex; sides subparallel for about the basal two-thirds of its length then gradually tapering to the apices; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae flat with rough surface.

Fourth article of tarsi with a short and narrow lamella scarcely visible in a dorsal view.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 21, 21a View Figs (length 0.87 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.00-5.10 mm; width 1.37-1.40 mm.

Etymology. Dedicated to the collector, G. Sabatinelli.