Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, 2021

Sommer, David, Hillert, Oliver, Hrůzová, Lucie & Král, David, 2021, Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Bolboceratidae), a new species from Iran, along with an updated key to the western Palaearctic species of the subgenus, Zootaxa 4920 (3), pp. 380-394 : 391

Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král , new species

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Bolbelasmus nireus: Keith 2005: 51 , fig. 1 (distribution); Montreuil 2017: 260 (distribution).

Bolbelasmus nireus [partim, populations from Iran]: Arnone & Massa 2010: 412 (distribution); Miessen 2011: 110 (distribution); Hillert et al. 2016: 246 (distribution); Nikolajev et al. 2016: 33 (catalogue); Schoolmeesters 2020 (online catalogue).

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FIGURE 1A–D. Habitus of males in dorsal view. A, holotype of Bolbelasmus zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species; B, B. makrisi Miessen, 2011; C, B. nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece (Rhodes); D, B. nireus from Turkey. Not to scale.

FIGURE 2A–D. Pronotum of males in frontal view. A, holotype of Bolbelasmus zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species; B, B. makrisi Miessen, 2011; C, B. nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece (Rhodes); D, B. nireus from Turkey. Not to scale.

FIGURE 3A–D. Habitus of males in lateral view. A, holotype of Bolbelasmus zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species; B, B. makrisi Miessen, 2011; C, B. nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece (Rhodes); D, B. nireus from Turkey. Not to scale.

FIGURE 4A–D. Pronotum of males in lateral view. A, Bolbelasmus zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species, from Fars province, Iran; B, B. zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species, from Lorestan province, Iran; C, B. makrisi Miessen, 2011; D, B. nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece, Rhodes. Not to scale.