Agriotes sakaryaensis, Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014

Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, Zootaxa 3841 (4), pp. 451-490 : 464

Agriotes sakaryaensis sp. n.

(Figs. 30–31, 85)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Turkey: “ TURKEY vil. Sakarya Esme 1987. V.11. leg. Rozner I.” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species is close to A. colonnellii Guglielmi et Platia, 1985 . It can be separated by lighter colour of body, shorter antennae and shape of male genitalia.

Description. Male (Fig. 30). Entirely brown with reddish undefined shadings and with antennae and legs lighter, yellow-ferruginous; covered with dense, yellowish, pubescence.

Head with eyes as wide as anterior margin of pronotum, frons slightly convex between eyes, flat on anterior margin; punctures coarse, umbilicate, contiguous.

Antennae (Fig. 31) short, not reaching for about two antennomeres posterior angles of pronotum, moderately serrated from fourth antennomere on; second subcylindrical, slender, more than twice longer than wide and 1.4× longer than third; third subconical, 1.7× longer than wide; second and third, taken together, 2× longer than fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular and on average 1.5× longer than wide; last longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at posterior angles, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base with a shallow median longitudinal furrow at basal slope; sides from middle dilated forwards and sinuate upwards; posterior angles acutminate, slightly divergent with a fine carina running subparallel to lateral margin, this complete; puncturation rather uniformly distributed, punctures on disk simple or feebly umbilicate with very short intervals, gradually denser toward sides and contiguous at lateral extremities.

Scutellum shield-shaped, moderately convex with rugose surface.

Eytra 2.6× longer than and as wide as pronotum, very convex, sides subparallel from base to middle, further gradually narrowing to apices, striae well marked and punctured, interstriae flat, densely punctured with subrugose surface.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 85.

Female unknown.

Size. Length 9.5 mm; width 2.75 mm.

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