Adelocera islamabadensis, 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 : 9

Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp.

( Figs. 7, 7a , 62 , 100, 133)

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).

Diagnosis. Species very similar to A. foveatus Vats & Kashyap, 1992 for the general shape of pronotum but without depressions at base, smaller size, and apices of paramera in the male genitalia acutely dentate.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely blackish with undefined ferruginous areas at sides of pronotum, base and sides of elytra and underside; antennae with the first article and legs ferruginous; antennae from second article yellowish; covered with thickened, whitish, scale-like pubescence on all the surface.

Frons slightly impressed from the middle to the anterior margin, the latter obsolete and moderately emarginate at the middle nearly touching the clypeus; punctures coarse, deep, contiguous.

Antennae just exceeding the middle of pronotum, strongly serrated from the fourth article on; second and third articles subequal in length, second subcylindrical, third subconical, as long as wide; second and third, taken together, as long as the fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, on average just longer than wide, last as long as penultimate, subellipsoidal, asymmetrically constricted before the apex.

Pronotum 1.4x wider than long, widest at the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, conspicuously convex at the centre of disc, abruptly sloping at sides and nearly vertically at base; sides subparallel from the middle to near the extremity of the posterior angles, the latter very shortly pointed, divergent, acarinate; lateral margins entire and nearly completely visible in a dorsal view; punctures deep, simple, on average with intervals.

Scutellum shield-shaped impressed at base, densely punctured.

Elytra 2.35x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, very convex; sides feebly dilated from the base to before the middle then gradually tapering towards the apices; surface very coarsely and densely punctured with indistinct striae.

Propleurae deeply furrowed to receive the anterior legs and running parallel to the antennal grooves; metasternal tarsal groove present; prosternum flat and laterally limited by a smooth and shiny line.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 7, 7a (length 1.03 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 7.30 mm; width 3.10 mm.

Etymology. The name is derived from Islamabad, the province where the species was collected.

Figures

Figs. 3-8.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 3, 3a.- Lacon monticola (Candèze, 1897). 4, 4a.- Lanelater bipunctatus (Candèze, 1857). 5, 5a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. 6, 6a.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 7, 7a.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 8, 8a.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp.

Figs. 58-65.- First or last articles of antennae. 58.- Lacon brachypterus n. sp. 59.- Lanelater sabatinellii n. sp. 60, 60a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. ♂♀. 61.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 62.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 63.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp. 64.- Adelocera afghana Platia & Gudenzi, 2002, ♀. 65.- Adelocera foveatus Vats & Kashyap, 1992.