Adiaphorus sabatinellii, Platia, 2015

Platia, Giuseppe, 2015, New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 3-52 : 21

Adiaphorus sabatinellii n. sp.

( Figs. 30, 30a , 87 , 160 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Islamabad , Sect. 7 (33°43'N, 73°03'E), 600 m, 20.VI.- 20.VII.2011, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light ( CPG).

Diagnosis. This species can be compared to Adiaphorus elevatus Vats & Chauhan, 1992 from India (Uttar Pradesh) but it is easily separated by the frons without mid-longitudinal elevation.

Description.

Male. Entirely ferruginous with dense, long, semierect particularly on elytra, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Frons quadrangular, convex with anterior margin subarcuate protruding above the clypeus; punctures coarse, deep, contiguous.

Antennae exceeding by two articles the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, moderately serrated from the third article on; second article small, globous, the third conical, 1.8x longer than wide and a little shorter than fourth; fourth to sixth triangular, twice longer than wide, seventh to tenth slenderer, subtriangular, 2.4x longer than wide, the last one longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, strongly convex from the middle to the anterior margin, abruptly sloping at sides, more gradually at base with a trace of mid-longitudinal impressed line; sides from behind the middle very gradually and regularly narrowing to the apex and backwards to the posterior angles, the latter acuminate, just divergent at the apical extremities, with a short carina directed inside; lateral margins complete, visible in a dorsal view only in the basal third; punctuation uniformly distributed, punctures deep, simple or slightly umbilicate, with very short intervals or contiguous.

Scutellum shield shaped, ridged at base, moderately convex, sparsely punctured.

Elytra 2.9x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, convex; sides subparallel from the base to the middle then very gradually narrowing to the apices; striae well marked and deeply punctured, interstriae flat with rough surface.

Articles of tarsi, first with a very short, second and third with a long lamella.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 30, 30a (length 1.50 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 10.00 mm; width 2.55 mm.

Etymology. The species is dedicated to the collector, G. Sabatinelli.

Figures

Figs. 27-32.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 27, 27a.- Selatosomus whitei (Candèze, 1900). 28, 28a.- Mulsanteus sabatinellii n. sp. 29, 29a.- Xanthopenthes sabatinellii n. sp. 30, 30a.- Adiaphorus sabatinellii n. sp. 31, 31a.- Melanotus hirticornis (Herbst, 1806). 32, 32a.- Melanotus loebli Platia & Schimmel, 2001.

Figs. 82-88.- First or last articles of antennae. 82.-Heteroderes curtus n. sp. 83.- Heteroderes sericeus Candèze, 1859. 84, 84a.- Denticollis oculatus n. sp. 85.- Selatosomus whitei (Candèze, 1900). 86.- Mulsanteus sabatinellii n. sp. 87.- Adiaphorus sabatinellii n. sp. 88.- Melanotus gorodinskii Platia, 2005.

Figs. 155-163.- Habitus. 155.- Heteroderes curtus n. sp. (10.6 mm). 156.- Denticollis oculatus n. sp. (18.6 mm). 157.- Selatosomus whitei (Candèze, 1900) (17.5 mm). 158.- Mulsanteus sabatinellii n. sp. (11.5 mm). 159.- Xanthopenthes sabatinellii n. sp. (9.3 mm). 160.- Adiaphorus sabatinellii n. sp. (10 mm). 161.- Melanotus gorodinskii Platia, 2005 (14.2 mm). 162.- Melanotus hirticornis (Herbst, 1806) (15.5 mm). 163.- Melanotus loebli Platia & Schimmel, 2001 (15.5 mm).