Euboeus (Pelorinus) zoroaster ( Seidlitz, 1895 )

Nabozhenko, Maxim V., 2022, A taxonomic review of the genus Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) of the Caucasus, Iran and Turkmenistan, Zootaxa 5159 (4), pp. 451-486 : 460-461

Euboeus (Pelorinus) zoroaster ( Seidlitz, 1895)

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Helops zoroaster Seidlitz, 1895: 714 , 751;

Probaticus (Pelorinus) zoroaster: Reitter, 1922: 35 ; Kühnelt, 1957: 79;

Probaticus zoroaster: Medvedev & Nepesova, 1985: 149 (fig. 93), 152; Nabozhenko, 2009: 420;

Helops diabolinus Brancsik, 1899: 101 t. 4, f. 5, synonymized by Nabozhenko (2009);

Zophohelops diabolinus: Reitter, 1922: 118 , nota.

Full bibliography for this species is published by Nabozhenko (2009).

Type material. Not studied. The holotype, ♀ (type locality: “ Askabad ”, now Ashgabad , Turkmenistan) originated from the collection of O. Staudinger, which is currently deposited (at least beetles) in SNSD. The holotype was not found by the curator of the SNSD collection Olaf Jäger.

Material. Turkmenistan. 1♀ ( HNHM) : “Trans Caspi Eylandt” ( Turkmenistan, Transcaspian area ); 2♀ ( ZIN) : Zakaspiyskaya oblast’ ( Turkmenistan, Transcaspian area )), Aydere canyon, 10.v.1890 (leg. Eylandt); 1♂, 1♀ ( ZIN) : Turkmenistan, Kopetdag, Aydere , 3.v.1930 (leg. E. Shestopalov); 1♂, 2♀ ( ZIN) : Turkmenistan, Aydere canyon, 0–3 km from river mouth, 30.iv.1952 (leg. K.G. Romadina); 2♀ ( ZIN) : Turkmenistan, Kara-Kala (= Garrygala), N slope of Syunt Mt. , 2.vii.1956 (leg. G.S. Medvedev); 1♂ ( ZIN) , 1♀ ( HNHM) : Turkmenistan, Kara-Kala, a canyon on N slope of Syunt Mt. , 6.v.1957 (leg. G.S. Medvedev); 4♀ ( ZIN) : Turkmenistan, Kara-Kala, Savudzhe canyon, 8.v.1957, 11.v.1957 (leg. G.S. Medvedev); 1♀ ( ZIN) Turkmenistan, N of Kara-Kala , 10.v.1957 (leg. G.S. Medvedev); 1♂, 1♀ ( ZIN) : Turkmenistan, W Kopetdag, headwaters of Khozly canyon, 20.04.1975, 23.04.1975 (leg. V. Yanushev); 1♀ ( HNHM) : Turkmenistan, Kopet-Dag Mts , 10 km S Aydere, 38°14ʹN, 56°46ʹE, 600–1000 m, 27.vi.1992 (leg. Gy Fábián, B. Herczig, A. Podlussány, Z. Varga) . Iran. 1♂, 1♀ ( NMPC) : NE Iran, Khorasan, Golestan forest 55 km NE Minudast , 37°20ʹN / 56°00ʹE, 840 m, 17.vi.2000 (S. Kadlec); 2♂, 1♀ ( HNHM) : Iran, Golestan, Golestan forest, 45 km NE of Minudasht , 584 m, 16.vi.2015 (leg. A. Lasoń); 37°23‘N, 55°50‘E, 9♂, 4♀ ( PCMN) : Iran, North Khorassan Prov., Golestan National park, 37°22‘46.33“N, 55°51‘5.56“E, ~ 600 m, 24–25.v.2016 (leg. D.G. Kasatkin); 1♂, 2♀ ( ZIN) : Iran, North Khorassan Prov., Golestan National park, 37°22ʹ6ʺN, 55°56ʹ40.6ʺE, 26–27.v.2017 (leg. D.G. Kasatkin) . Turkmenistan / Iran. 1♀ ( HNHM) : “Arwas Pers. b.” ( Kopetdag Mts. , Arvaz pass between Iran (North Khorasan Prov.) and Turkmenistan) .

Distribution. South West Turkmenistan (Kopetdag), Iran (North Khorasan Province).

Note. This is the only species of the genus that occurs in Turkmenistan.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Euboeus zoroaster, habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = male, ventrally; C = surface of metaventrite; D = surface of abdomen; E = female, dorsally; F = male, head and pronotum, dorsally; G = ditto, dorso-laterally; H = prothoracic hypomeron; I = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; J = spiculum gastrale; K = tegmen, ventrally; L = median lobe of aedeagus, ventrally; M = apex of median lobe, ventrally; N = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally.