Lanelater scutopentagonus Vats & Kashyap, 1993

Akhter, Muhammad Atique, Drumont, Alain, Rizvi, Syed Anser & Ahmed, Zubair, 2012, Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan, Zootaxa 3223, pp. 40-54 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.280288

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168092

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scientific name

Lanelater scutopentagonus Vats & Kashyap, 1993
status

 

Lanelater scutopentagonus Vats & Kashyap, 1993

Lanelater scutopentagonus Vats & Kashyap, 1993: 216 ; Cate, 2007: 102.

Type-locality. Northwest India.

Material examined. Single specimen without data ( NHMUK).

Remarks. This species appears closely related to L. bipunctatus sharing the pronotum longer than wide, antennae reaching the apex of hind angles of pronotum and the 3rd antennomere shorter than 4th. These species can be easily separated by elytral striae indistinct in L. scutopentagonus and shallowly punctured in L. bipunctatus , two depressions near the basal margin of pronotum in L. scutopentagonus , but pronotum without depressions in L. bipunctatus .

Distribution. India. The occurrence of this species in Pakistan is unconfirmed. A single specimen in NHMUK is without data.

Cate, P. C. (2007) Family Elateridae, 89 - 209. In LOBL I. & SMETANA A. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 4. Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 935 pp.

Vats, L. K. & Kashyap, S. L. (1993) Species of Lanelater Arnett from North India (Coleoptera; Elateridae). Indian Journal of Forestry, 16 (3), 214 - 222.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Elateridae

SubFamily

Agrypninae

Tribe

Agrypnini

Genus

Lanelater