Diodercarus arrowi Lutshnik, 1931

Azadbakhsh, Saeed, Mirmoayedi, Alinaghi & Jamali, Samad, 2017, New Faunistic Records of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Southern Iran, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 413-418 : 415-416

Diodercarus arrowi Lutshnik, 1931 ( Fig. 2 )

Material Examined. Hormozgan province, Bandar Abbas env., 12.III.2015, S. Azadbakhsh leg. & det. (7 specimens) .

Identification. Body length 6.1–7.1 mm. Body color yellow to testaceous-brown, slender and slightly convex. Head smooth. Eyes normal. Palpi, antennae, and legs yellow. Pronotum as long as wide, smooth, lateral margins convex and sinuate before base. Pronotum with 2 pairs of setiferous punctures, one at middle and one on each posterior angle. Anterior angles of pronotum rounded and prominent. Base of pronotum and basal impressions shallow and impuntate. Elytra elongated, twice as long as wide, with complete basal margin.

(Azadbakhsh and Nozari 2015; Azadbakhsh et al. 2016). New province record for Hormozgan .

Biology. The specimens were collected by hand from under stones near the bank of a river.

Figures

Fig. 2. Diodercarus arrowi from Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province. Photograph by A. Anichtchenko.