Laena obscuricornis Reitter, 1900

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2020, New taxonomic and faunistic data to species of the genus Laena Dejean from Turkey (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 385-398 : 395

Laena obscuricornis Reitter, 1900

( Figs. 20 , 32 )

Examined specimens: Turkey, 50 km W Kahrmanmaraş, 8 km SE Andirm , 1240 m, 19. III .2005, leg. V. Assing, 1 ex. SMNS .— Turkey, 50 km NW Kahrmanmaraş , S Göksun, 1380 m, 10.IV.2004, leg. V. Assing, 1 ex. CPE .— Tur- key, Mersin, N Tarsus, 10 km W Meselik , 24. VII .1998, leg. C. Bayer, 1 ex. SMNS .

Remarks: This species seems to be quite similar to L. korbi ( Fig. 19 ), but in L. obscuricornis the middle and posterior femora are with only a single small tooth, whereas in L. korbi these femora bear a pair of small teeth. Additionally, L. korbi possesses a row of small teeth on the inner side of posterior tibiae which are absent in L. obscuricornis . The apicale of the aedeagi are also different (compare Figs. 32, 34 ).

Published localities: Amasia ( Schuster 1916). Mucur ( Kaszab 1959b).

Figures

FIGURES 9–21. Dorsal view of Laena species from Turkey (and few from Greece and Bulgaria). 9 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS. 10 L. wanensis, Kayseri, SMNS. 11 L. merkli, Göksun, SMNS. 12 L. parvidens, Amasya, SMNS. 13 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 14 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 15 L. byzantina, Abant, SMNS. 16 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype SMNS. 17 L. sp. ♀, Antalya, SMNS. 18 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 19 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 20 L. obscuricornis, Tarsus, SMNS. 21 L. graeca, Bulgaria Burgas, SMNS. Scale line: 3.0 mm.

FIGURES 22–46. Right posterior male tibia of Laena species from Turkey and Greece (Figs. 22–25), and apicale of aedeagus of Laena species from Turkey and few from Greece (Figs. 26–46). 22 L. apfelbecki, Greece Évia, SMNS. 23 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype Izmir, SMNS. 24 L. kraatzi, Greece Chios, SMNS. 25 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 26 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 27 L. ferruginea, Greece Corfu, SMNS. 28 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS (det. Kaszab as L. liliputana syn. nov.). 29 L. wanensis, Nur Daglari, SMNS. 30 L. bozdagica sp. nov., paratype Izmir, SMNS. 31 L. merkli, Hakkari, CPE. 32 L. obscuricornis, Meselik, SMNS. 33 L. byzantina, Artvin, SMNS. 34 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 35 L. lindbergi, Bitlis, SMNS. 36 L. apfelbecki, Greece Evia, SMNS. 37 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 38 L. ganglbaueri, Alem Dagh, SMNS. 39 L. weisei, Greece Sapka, SMNS. 40 L. theana, Erfelek, SMNS. 41 L. assingi sp. nov., holotype Fethiye, CPE. 42 L. graeca, Bolu, SMNS. 43 L. osmanlis, Bursa, SMNS. 44 L. quadricollis, Rize, SMNS. 45 L. quadricollis, Krasnodar Maikop, SMNS. 46 L. kraatzi, Alem Dagh, SMNS. Scale line: 1 mm.