Agriotes balikesirensis, 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 : 463

Agriotes balikesirensis sp. n.

(Figs 22–24, 81–82)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Turkey: “ TURKEY, Prov. Balikesir, Gündogan, 15.VI.1989 leg. A. et I. Rozner” ( HNHM). One paratype, female: “Turkey-Balikesir Gundogan, 15.VI.1989 leg. A. & I. Rozner” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to A. sakaryaensis sp. n. in the general shape and colour, but it can be separated by the slenderer antennal antennomeres and particularly the shape of the paramera in male genitalia.

Description. Male (Fig. 22). Entirely blackish with antennae and legs ferruginous; covered with dense, yellow fulvous pubescence.

Head with eyes as wide as anterior margin of pronotum, frons slightly convex between eyes, flat on anterior margin; punctures coarse, umbilicate, contiguous. Antennae (Fig. 23) not reaching posterior angles of pronotum, with about one antennomeres shorter, moderately serrated from fourth antennomere on; second and third antennomeres cylindrical, second 2.2× longer than wide and 1.28× longer than third; second and third, taken together, 1.7× longer than fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average twice longer than wide; last longer than penultimate, ellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at posterior angles, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base, with shallow median longitudinal furrow at basal slope; sides from middle dilated forwards and sinuate backwards; posterior angles acuminate, slightly divergent, with fine carina running subparallel to lateral margin, this complete; puncturation rather uniformly distributed, punctures on disk simple or feebly umbilicate, with very short intervals, gradually denser and clearly umbilicate toward sides, contiguous at lateral extremities.

Scutellum shield-shaped, flat, with subrugose surface. Elytra 2.4× longer than pronotum and as wide, very convex, sides subparallel from base to middle, further gradually tapering to apices, striae well marked and punctured, interstriae flat, densely punctured with subrugose surface.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 81.

Female (Fig. 24). Extremely similar to male, with elytra slightly paler than pronotum, dark brown with a little shorter antennae.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 82.

Size. Length 9.1–9.3 mm; width 2.4–2.5 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Balıkesir, the province of Turkey, where the species was collected.