Elathous impressifrons (Hampe)

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 244

Elathous impressifrons (Hampe)

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Athous impressifrons Hampe, 1866: 373 .

Elathous impressifrons: Buysson, 1902a: 275 .

Leptoschema impressifrons: Reitter, 1905: 24 .

Type depository. According to the original description ( Hampe 1866), there should be more female syntypes. Hampe’s specimens should be deposited in NHMW; however, no specimens of this species have been located there (H. Schillhammer, personal communication).

Type locality. Croatia: Zagreb [Agram] .

Distribution. Croatia. Bertolini (1904: 68) recorded this species from France ( Corsica) but this record was not confirmed in subsequent studies.

Literature. Hampe (1866: 373): original description [as Athous ]; Stein (1868: 66): catalogue [as Athous ]; Marseul (1873: 354): redescription [as Athous ]; Stein & Weise (1877: 94): catalogue [as Athous ]; Marseul (1887: 259): catalogue [as Athous ]; Candèze (1891: 150): catalogue [as Athous ]; Reitter (1891: 206): catalogue [as Athous ]; Bertolini (1904: 68): catalogue; Reitter (1905: 24, 115): review, key, catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Reitter (1906: 399): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Schwarz (1906: 197): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Jakobson (1913: 757): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Buysson (1914: 87): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Hyslop (1921: 652): taxonomic note [as Athous ]; Buysson (1925: 598): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Schenkling (1927: 303): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Porta (1929: 359): catalogue, distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Mertlik (2005: 171): comparison with other species; Cate (2007: 164): catalogue; Etzler (2019: 306): checklist; Németh (2019: 137): comparison with other species.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Palearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. cyprius (Baudi di Selve, 1871), non-type specimen from Cyprus, male; B, E. depressus Platia & Schimmel, 1991, holotype, male; C, E. ekaterinae Preiss, 2003, holotype, male; D, E. emgei Schwarz, 1893, holotype, male; E, E. emrei Platia in Platia et al., 2011, holotype, male; F, E. graecus Platia, 2008, paratype, male; G, E. impressifrons (Hampe, 1866), non-type specimen from Croatia, female; I, E. lizleri Mertlik, 2005, holotype, female. Scale bars: 3.0 mm. Labels not to scale.