Lanelater pakistanicus, 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 : 7-8

Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp.

( Figs. 5, 5a , 47 , 60, 60a , 98, 98a, 131)

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). 22 Paratypes (♂ ♀) - same data as HT; AJK, Muzaffarabad, 15.VIII.2012, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light (1); Islamabad , Margalla Hills (33°46'N, 73°06'E), 1060 m, 22.VI.-20.VII.2011, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light; Islamabad, Margalla Hills, Pir Sohawa (33°49'N, 73°08'E), 1000 m, 21.V.1998, Gy. M. Laszlo & G. Ronkay leg.; Punjab prov., Indus river, Rajanpur distr. , near Jampur , 16.VIII.2003; AJK, Jhelum river , 1500 m, 22.VII.-10.VIII.2003, V. Gurko ( CPG; CRG; HNHM).

Diagnosis. A species allied to L. densus Vats & Kashyap, 1993 from North India (Uttar Pradesh), it is separated by the shorter antennae, dented mandibles, and slenderer male genitalia.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely brown-ferruginous to blackish with antennae and legs brown-ferruginous; covered with short, dense, recumbent, yellowish pubescence.

Frons flat on vertex, moderately impressed before the anterior margin, the latter obsolete and slightly prolonged at the middle touching the clypeus; punctuation coarse, punctures umbilicate, contiguous or with very short, shagreened intervals; two small, irregular, impunctate, more or less shagreened areas are present at the middle.

Antennae not reaching for about 1.5 articles the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, serrated from the third article on; second article small, globous, third subtriangular, 1.15-1.25x longer than wide and 1.5x longer than the second; fourth to tenth triangular, fourth longer than the following and about 1.7x longer than wide; fifth to tenth subequal in length and on average 1.5x longer than wide, the last one longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal abruptly constricted at the apical third.

Pronotum 1.10-1,15x wider than long, widest at the apices of posterior angles, very convex at the middle, gradually sloping at sides, more abruptly at base; a mid-longitudinal, narrow, impunctate line more or less developed can be present; sides more or less arcuate, from the middle or just behind the middle gradually narrowing to the anterior margin, quite sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter long, acuminate, very divergent, with a fine carina very close to the lateral margins and prolonged to the middle; lateral margins very visible on a dorsal view for all its length; punctuation coarse, punctures variable, on disc slightly umbilicate, with very short, moderately shagreened intervals, gradually denser, clearly umbilicate with very short, shagreened intervals towards the sides; prescutellar tubercle small, quadrangular.

Scutellum subrectangular, slightly emarginate at the middle of the base, sinuate at sides, flat, finely punctured with shagreened surface.

Elytra 2.7-2.8x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, moderately convex; sides from the base to the apices gradually narrowing, apices just emarginate; striae very superficial, moderately punctured; interstriae flat with dense and finer punctures and with shagreened surface.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 5, 5a (length 4.75 mm).

Female. Body larger with shorter antennae just surpassing with the last article the middle of pronotum and less serrate.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 47 .

Size. Length 25.00-28.00 mm; width 7.40-10.30 mm.

Etymology. The name is derived from the country where the species was collected.

Figures

Figs. 3-8.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 3, 3a.- Lacon monticola (Candèze, 1897). 4, 4a.- Lanelater bipunctatus (Candèze, 1857). 5, 5a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. 6, 6a.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 7, 7a.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 8, 8a.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp.

Figs. 44-50.- Sclerites of bursa copulatrix. 44.- Lacon brachypterus n. sp. 45.- Lacon monticola (Candèze, 1897). 46, 46a.- Lanelater sabatinellii n. sp. 47.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. 48.- Agrypnus argentosquamosus Vats & Kashyap, 1992. 49.- Agrypnus piger (Candèze, 1889). 50.- Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992).

Figs. 58-65.- First or last articles of antennae. 58.- Lacon brachypterus n. sp. 59.- Lanelater sabatinellii n. sp. 60, 60a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. ♂♀. 61.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 62.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 63.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp. 64.- Adelocera afghana Platia & Gudenzi, 2002, ♀. 65.- Adelocera foveatus Vats & Kashyap, 1992.