Craspedostethus hirticollis, Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014

Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, Zootaxa 3841 (4), pp. 451-490 : 484

Craspedostethus hirticollis sp. n.

(Figs. 69, 137)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Afghanistan: “ 16.VII.1965. Afgh., Khurd-Kabul SO v. Kabul, 1900 m Kasy & Vartian” ( HNHM). 1 paratype, male: “Kabul env., 1740 m, 29.VII.1952, J. Klapperich” (CPG).

Diagnosis. This species is immediately distinguished from all other for the long and erect pubescence.

Description. Male (Fig. 69). Entirely dark ferruginous with blackish undefined shadings on elytra; antennae and legs yellowish; covered with dense, long, recumbent and erect, yellow-golden vestiture.

Frons convex between eyes, flat at anterior margin, latter moderately thickened and regularly curved; puncturation double, very larger punctures irregularly mixed with much smaller ones, intervals very short and shiny.

Antennae slightly exceeding posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from fourth antennomere on; second subcylindrical, third subconical, subequal in length, taken together as long as fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average 2× longer than wide, last as long as penultimate, subellipsoidal, pointed at apical third.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at middle, convex, sides regularly curved, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, these truncate, not divergent, shortly carinate; puncturation uniformly distributed; punctures of different sizes, very large and scattered punctures irregularly mixed with very smaller ones (5–7 smaller punctures falling to one larger).

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, deeply emarginate at middle of base, flat or slightly impressed.

Elytra 2.4× longer than and as wide as pronotum, convex; sides subparallel in first half, then gradually narrowing to apices; striae distinctly and deeply punctured; interstriae flat with very fine punctures.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 137 (length 0.75 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.7–6.0 mm; width 1.81–1.87 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the fine and long pubescence of this species.