Drilorhinus klimenkoi Kovalev, Kirejtshuk, and Shapovalov, 2019

Packova, Gabriela, Hoffmannova, Johana & Kundrata, Robin, 2021, Drilini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) of Iran, The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3), pp. 579-586 : 580-581

Drilorhinus klimenkoi Kovalev, Kirejtshuk, and Shapovalov, 2019

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Drilorhinus klimenkoi Kovalev et al. 2019: 188 .

Type Locality. SW Iran, Lorestan province, 20 km N Pol-e Dokhtar, Baba Zeyd vill .

Type Material. Holotype, male, “SW Iran, Lorestan province, 20 km N Pol-e Dokhtar, Baba Zeyd vill., 2.V.2007, A.A. Klimenko leg.” ( ZIN). The re-examination of type material was unnecessary because the original description, figures and drawings ( Kovalev et al. 2019) allowed us to diagnose and identify this easily recognizable species.

Material Examined. 1 male, “ Iran, Khuzestan [? Lorestan] Province, Pol-e / Dokhtar , 20. IV. 2018 / S. Azadbakhsh leg.” ( PCAA) .

Comparison. This is the only species classified in the genus Drilorhinus , and it clearly differs from Drilus species in the region by the yellowish to reddish brown head, the strongly projected frontoclypeal part of head, the subtrapezoidal, less transverse pronotum (1.30–1.35 times as wide as long), divergent elytra, and male genitalia 1.90 times as long as maximum phallobase width (head dark brown, frontoclypeal region short and widely concave, pronotum distinctly transverse, 1.60–1.80 times as wide as long, elytra adjacent to each other for almost their whole length, and male genitalia 1.65–1.70 times as long as maximum phallobase width in Drilus iljini and D. iranicus ) ( Figs. 1–5 ).

= 2.0 mm.

Variability. Body 6.8–7.7 mm long, frontal distance between eyes 1.85–1.95 times eye diameter, pronotum 1.30–1.35 times as wide as long, and elytra combined 1.9–2.0 times as long as wide.

Distribution. Iran (Lorestan prov.).

Figures

Fig. 1. Drilorhinus klimenkoi, male. A–C) Habitus, dorsal, ventral and lateral view, respectively. Scale bars

Fig. 2. Drilorhinus klimenkoi, male. A–C) Head, dorsal, ventral and frontal view, respectively, D) Antenna, E–F) Pronotum, dorsal and lateral view. Scale bars = 0.5 mm (A–C, F), 1.0 mm (D, E).

Fig. 3. Drilorhinus klimenkoi, male. A–C) Male genitalia, dorsal, lateral and ventral view, respectively. Scale bars = 0.3 mm.

Fig. 4. Drilus iljini, male.A) Habitus, dorsal view, B–C) Head and pronotum, dorsal view, D) Male genitalia, dorsal view. Scale bars = 2.0 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B, C), 0.3 mm (D).

Fig. 5. Drilus iranicus, male.A) Habitus, dorsal view, B) Head and pronotum, dorsal view, C) Male genitalia, dorsal view, D) Labels. Scale bars = 2.0 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B), 0.3 mm (C).