Heteroderes sabatinellii, Platia, 2015

Platia, Giuseppe, 2015, New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 3-52 : 16

Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp.

( Figs. 21, 21a , 80 , 114 , 153 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Islamabad , Sect. 7 (33°43'N, 73°03'E), 600 m, 20.VI.- 20.VII.2011, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light ( CPG). 1 Paratype ♂ - same data as HT ( CPG).

Diagnosis. A species well separated from all the known of the region for the smaller size, it can be compared to H. jagemanni n. sp. But it is separated for the lighter colour, posterior angles of pronotum yellowish, and the second and third antennal segments, taken together, much longer than fourth.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely dark brown with the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, antennae and legs yellowish; underside ferruginous; covered with very dense, recumbent, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Frons flat or moderately convex, anterior margin complete, straight, just protruding above the clypeus; punctures of variable size, with very short, shiny intervals or contiguous.

Antennae not reaching the apices of posterior angles of pronotum for about 1.5 articles, slightly serrate from the fourth article on; the second and third article subcylindrical with the second larger in diameter and a little longer than the third; the second and third, taken together, 1.5 x longer than the fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, fourth a little longer than following, fifth to tenth on average twice longer than wide, the last one a little longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum just longer than wide, widest at the middle and at the apices of posterior angles, convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; sides subparallel, very slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter acuminate, just divergent at apical extremity, with a short and fine carina running subparallel to the lateral margins, these complete and visible only at the basal third in a dorsal view; punctuation double, uniformly distributed, larger and simple punctures are regularly mixed with very fine punctures with very short, shiny intervals.

Scutellum shield-shaped, ridged at base, moderately convex and finely punctured.

Elytra 2.16-2.20x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, convex; sides subparallel for about the basal two-thirds of its length then gradually tapering to the apices; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae flat with rough surface.

Fourth article of tarsi with a short and narrow lamella scarcely visible in a dorsal view.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 21, 21a (length 0.87 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.00-5.10 mm; width 1.37-1.40 mm.

Etymology. Dedicated to the collector, G. Sabatinelli.

Figures

Figs. 21-26.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 21, 21a.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp.. 22, 22a.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp. 23, 23a.- Heteroderes curtus n. sp. 24, 24a.- Heteroderes gallagheri Platia & Schimmel, 1997. 25, 25a.- Heteroderes sericeus Candèze, 1859. 26, 26a.- Denticollis oculatus n. sp.

Figs. 74-81.- First or last articles of antennae. 74.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944. 75.- Calais afghanicus (Chassain, 1991) ♀. 76.- Aeoloides hrebalyi n. sp. 77.- Conoderus aeolodermoides n. sp., ♀. 78.- Conoderus nigromaculosus Vats & Chauhan, 1992. 79.- Drasterius sabatinellii n. sp. 80.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp. 81.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp.

Figs. 112-119.- Particular of profile, base and/or posterior angles of pronotum. 112.- Conoderus nigromaculosus Vats & Chauhan, 1992. 113.- Heteroderes gallagheri Platia & Schimmel, 1997. 114.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp. 115.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp. 116.- Heteroderes curtus n. sp. 117.- Heteroderes sericeus Candèze, 1859. 118.- Heteroderes spinosus Candèze, 1890. 119.- Drasterius sabatinellii n. sp.

Figs. 145-154.- Habitus. 145.- Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (13 mm). 146.- Compsolacon tuberosus (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (11 mm). 147.- Octocryptus babaulti Fleutiaux, 1944 (5.6 mm). 148.- Rismethus pistrinarius (Candèze, 1857) (2.7 mm). 149.- Aeoloides hreblayi n. sp. (3.3 mm). 150.- Conoderus aeolodermoides n. sp. (4.3 mm). 151.- Conoderus nigromaculosus Vats & Chauhan, 1992 (5.2 mm). 152.- Drasterius sabatinellii n. sp. (4.0 mm). 153.- Heteroderes sabatinellii n. sp. (5.0 mm). 154.- Heteroderes jagemanni n. sp. (6.3 mm).