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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0389879E-FFE7-FFB7-91A2-8C385F3D7049

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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.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Elateridae

Genus

Lanelater

Loc

Lanelater scutopentagonus Vats & Kashyap, 1993

Akhter, Muhammad Atique, Drumont, Alain, Rizvi, Syed Anser & Ahmed, Zubair 2012
2012
Loc

Lanelater scutopentagonus

Cate 2007: 102
Vats 1993: 216
1993
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