Euboeus (Pelorinus) prometheus ( Reitter, 1902 )

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 : 457-458

Euboeus (Pelorinus) prometheus ( Reitter, 1902)

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Helops prometheus Reitter, 1902: 214 ;

Probaticus (Pelorinus) prometheus: Reitter, 1922: 43 ; Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko, 2011: 149 (fig. 337), 150 (fig. 346), 169, 307.

Probaticus prometeus: Kühnelt, 1957: 79

Full bibliography for this species is published by Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011, p. 307).

Type material. Holotype, ♂ ( HNHM): “Talysch.”, “ Coll. Reitter ”, “ H. Prometheus m. 1900 Type.”, “ Holotypus 1901 ♂ Helops prometheus Reitter ”.

Notes. Reitter (1902) listed “ 1♂ ♀ ” in the original description, but I suggest that it is a misprint, because he described only male characters and only one male is deposited in HNHM. In the same paper, he always indicated whether a character refers to a female or a male for other species and wrote “ 1 ♂ und ♀ ”.

Distribution. Iran (Talysh). Extensive collecting efforts (more than 190 years) have not produced any records of this species in the territory of the modern Azerbaijani part of Talysh, where only E. quadricollis was collected in alpine meadows. In conclusion, I’m sure that the species occurs Iranian part of the Talysh Mountains and can be excluded from the Azerbaijani faunistic lists. Reitter (1922) also recorded E. prometheus for Astrabad (Now Gorgan, Iran), probably confusing it with E. gorganicus . Kühnelt (1957) recorded E. prometheus from the Caucasus and Central Iran; the second locality is erroneous. Abdurakhamanov & Nabozhenko (2011) partly mixed E. prometheus with females of E. gorganicus and erroneously recorded it for Mazandaran Province.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Euboeus prometheus, holotype, male, habitus, details of structure. A = dorsally; B = ventrally; C = labels; D = head and pronotum, dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prothoracic hypomeron.