Arhaphes bicoloris ( Vats & Chauhan, 1993 ) Kundrata & Musalkova & Prosvirov, 2018

Kundrata, Robin, Musalkova, Marketa & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2018, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Senodoniini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), Zootaxa 4532 (2), pp. 273-287 : 282-283

Arhaphes bicoloris ( Vats & Chauhan, 1993) comb. nov.

Senodonia bicoloris Vats & Chauhan, 1993: 39 .

Type depository. Holotype, male (FRID or IARI).

Type locality. India: Uttar Pradesh , Boom (500 m. asl, Pithoragarh ) [currently in Uttarakhand] .

Distribution. India (Uttarakhand).

Literature. Vats & Chauhan (1993): original description; Schimmel (2006b): remark.

Remark. Morphological characters mentioned in the original description of this species strikingly differ from the general characters of Senodoniini ( Schimmel 2006b). The small size, subparallel and almost cylindrical body, inwardly directed carinae of hind pronotal angles, strongly projecting prosternal lobe, rugose elytral interstriae, and especially the shape of aedeagus of this species are characteristic for the genus Arhaphes Candèze, 1860 ( Elateridae : Negastriinae ). This genus has the lamellate tarsomeres III and IV but Vats & Chauhan (1993) reported the tarsomeres II and III with lamellae which is most probably an error. Based on the above mentioned characters we propose here to transfer Senodonia bicoloris to genus Arhaphes as Arhaphes bicoloris ( Vats & Chauhan, 1993) comb. nov. This species is morphologically very similar to A. ruficollis (Candèze, 1892) from West Bengal and Meghalaya ( Schimmel & Tarnawski 2012), including the typical habitus and bicolored body. Further study is needed to clarify if these species are conspecific.