Aeoloides grisescens ( Germar, 1844 )

Hoffmannova, Johana, Packova, Gabriela, Prosvirov, Alexander S., Akhter, Muhammad Atique & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5270 (2), pp. 281-305 : 293

Aeoloides grisescens ( Germar, 1844)

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Cryptohypnus grisescens Germar, 1844: 151 .

Aeoloides grisescens: Platia, 2004: 44 . For more information, including synonyms, see Cate (2007).

Distribution. Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen; Afrotropical Region ( Platia 2004, Cate 2007, Ptashkovsky 2009, Platia 2007, Platia 2011, Akhter et al. 2012 a, Naz et al. 2012, Platia & Akrawi 2013, Platia & Ahmed 2016, Platia & Ghahari 2016, Abdel-Dayem et al. 2017, Platia 2018b).

Literature. Cate (2007: 104): catalogue; Platia (2011: 47): distributional remark; Akhter et al. (2012a: 47): catalogue, distributional record from Pakistan; Naz et al. (2012: 83): revision, figures of habitus and male genitalia; Platia & Ahmed (2016: 6): distributional record from Pakistan; Platia & Ghahari (2016: 244): distributional remark; Abdel-Dayem et al. (2017: 33): distributional remark; Platia (2018b: 71): distributional remark.

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FIGURE 3. Habitus images of Agrypninae from Pakistan. A. Aeoloides grisescens (Germar, 1844) (female); B. Drasterius brahminus Candèze, 1859 (male); C. Heteroderes lenis Candèze, 1859 (female); D. Lanelater pakistanicus Platia, 2015 (male). Scale bars = 1.0 mm (B), 3.0 mm (A, C), 6.0 mm (D).