Pseudathous Méquignon, 1930

Ghahari, Hassan, Packova, Gabriela, Platia, Giuseppe & Kundrata, Robin, 2024, Updates and additions to the annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Iran, Zootaxa 5432 (2), pp. 250-266 : 256

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F986BDF0-C7A9-4BE9-A800-04DCB50C0F18
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10898637
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FB3587FF-FFC7-D65D-FF05-FF3C7D93FE47
treatment provided by	Plazi (2024-03-30 17:02:25, last updated 2024-11-29 10:03:09)
scientific name	Pseudathous Méquignon, 1930
status

Treatment

Genus Pseudathous Méquignon, 1930

Comment. Based on the work by Pulvirenti & Platia (2022), all Iranian species previously classified in Hemicrepidius should be included in the genus Pseudathous . This applies to five species reported by Platia & Ghahari (2016) plus an additional one reported here (see below). Hemicrepidius hirtus (Linnaeus, 1784) and H. niger (Linnaeus, 1758) were already transferred to Pseudathous by Pulvirenti & Platia (2022). Here, we propose the following new combinations: Pseudathous agajevi ( Platia, 2008) comb. nov. (originally in Hemicrepidius ; Platia 2008), Pseudathous nigritulus ( Reitter, 1890) comb. nov. (originally in Athous , later in Hemicrepidius ; Reitter 1890, Cate 2007, respectively), and Pseudathous rahmei ( Németh & Platia, 2014) comb. nov. (originally in Hemicrepidius ; Németh & Platia 2014).

References

Cate, P. C. (2007) Family Elateridae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Elateroidea Derodontoidea Bostrichoidea Lymexyloidea Cleroidea Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 94 - 209.

Nemeth, T. & Platia, G. (2014) On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zootaxa, 3841 (4), 451 - 490. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3841.4.1

Platia, G. (2008) Descriptions of new species of click beetles from the Palearctic Region and Taiwan with chorological and synonymical notes (Insecta Coleoptera Elateridae). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia naturale della Romagna, 27, 187 - 215.

Platia, G. & Ghahari, H. (2016) An annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from Iran. Zootaxa, 4137 (2), 239 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4137.2.6

Pulvirenti, E. & Platia, G. (2022) The new checklist of the Italian Fauna: Elateridae, not including Cebrioninae, Drilinae and Lissominae. Biogeographia - The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 37 (2). [published online] https: // doi. org / 10.21426 / B 637256219

Reitter, E. (1890) Uebersicht der bekannten Arten der Coleopteren-Gattung Athous aus dem Kaukasus. Entomologische Nachrichten, 16, 241 - 247.