Aeoloides hreblayi, 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 : 13-14

Aeoloides hreblayi n. sp.

( Figs. 19 , 76 , 110 , 149 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Islamabad , 23.V.1992, G. Csorba & M. Hreblay leg., at light ( HNHM). 1 Paratype ♂ - same data as HT ( CPG).

Diagnosis. A species near Aeoloides figuratus (Germar, 1844) , it is separated by the smaller size, the colour of head and pronotum, and the sides of pronotum perfectly parallel in the posterior half.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; bicoloured; head, a mid-longitudinal, not well defined stripe along the pronotum, scutellum, base, sides, apex and two narrow obliquely transversal stripes before the apices of elytra, meso and metasternum, abdomen blackish; all the remaining parts yellow ferruginous; antennae yellow, darkened from the fourth article on, legs yellow; covered with a very dense, recumbent, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Frons convex, anterior margin straight just protruding above the clypeus, punctures approximately of the same size, with very short intervals.

Antennae short, just exceeding the middle of pronotum, moderately serrated from the fourth article on; second and third articles subcylindrical, with the second a little larger in diameter and longer than the third, taken together, notably longer than the fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, longer than wide, the last one longer than the penultimate, ellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1.27x wider than long, widest at the middle and at the apices of posterior angles, moderately and regularly convex; sides perfectly parallel for about the two-thirds of its length, posterior angles acuminate, not divergent, with a short and slight carina directed inside; lateral margins complete and substraight, not visible in a dorsal view; punctuation uniformly distributed; punctures of double sizes, larger, deep and simple punctures are regularly mixed with much more smaller and simple punctures, intervals very short and shiny.

Scutellum quadrangular, slightly convex and very finely punctured.

Elytra 2.35-2.40x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, moderately convex, sides very gradually and regularly tapering from the base to the apices; striae deeply punctured and regularly marked; interstriae subconvex with very fine punctures.

Articles of tarsi regularly decreasing in length, simple.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 19 (length 0.47 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 3.35-3.43 mm; width 1.15-1.18 mm.

Etymology. The species is dedicated to one of the collectors, the Hungarian lepidopterist M. Hreblay.

Figures

Figs. 15-20.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 15, 15a.- Agrypnus truncatus (Herbst, 1806). 16, 16a.- Compsolacon cashmiriensis Della Beffa, 1931. 17, 17a.- Compsolacon tuberosus (Vats & Kashyap, 1992). 18, 18a.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944. 19.- Aeoloides hrebalyi n. sp. 20-20a.- Drasterius collaris Candèze, 1859.

Figs. 74-81.- First or last articles of antennae. 74.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944. 75.- Calais afghanicus (Chassain, 1991) ♀. 76.- Aeoloides hrebalyi n. sp. 77.- Conoderus aeolodermoides n. sp., ♀. 78.- Conoderus nigromaculosus Vats & Chauhan, 1992. 79.- Drasterius sabatinellii n. sp. 80.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp. 81.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp.

Figs. 105-111.- Particular of profile, base and/or posterior angles of pronotum. 105.- Agrypnus ellipticus (Candèze, 1857). 106.- Agrypnus tostus (Candèze, 1857), ♀. 107, 107a.- Agrypnus transversus (Candèze, 1857). 108.- Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992), ♀. 109.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944. 110.- Aeoloides hrebalyi n. sp. 111.- Conoderus aeolodermoides n. sp., ♀.

Figs. 145-154.- Habitus. 145.- Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (13 mm). 146.- Compsolacon tuberosus (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (11 mm). 147.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944 (5.6 mm). 148.- Rismethus pistrinarius (Candèze, 1857) (2.7 mm). 149.- Aeoloides hreblayi n. sp. (3.3 mm). 150.- Conoderus aeolodermoides n. sp. (4.3 mm). 151.- Conoderus nigromaculosus Vats & Chauhan, 1992 (5.2 mm). 152.- Drasterius sabatinellii n. sp. (4.0 mm). 153.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp. (5.0 mm). 154.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp. (6.3 mm).