Ampedus turcicus, Platia & Kabalak & Sert, 2007

Platia, Giuseppe, Kabalak, Mahmut & Sert, Osman, 2007, Descriptions of two new species of click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey, Zootaxa 1415 (1), pp. 43-47 : 44

Ampedus turcicus n. sp.

( Figs. 1b, 1c , 2b, 2c , 3b , 4a, 4b )

Holotype Male: Turkey: Niǧde, Çamardı, near Ecemiş stream, m 1775, 29.V.2005, M. Kabalak & O. Sert leg. (Kabalak-Sert coll., Ankara) . Paratypes: 2 females: same data as holotype; Konya, Akşehir, Ortaköy- Akşehir yolu, 13.V.2005, M. Kabalak & O. Sert leg. (Kabalak-Sert coll; Platia coll.) .

Description: Male: length 10.2 mm; width 3.1 mm. Female: length 12–12.1 mm; width 3.7–3.75 mm. Bicoloured; head, pronotum, scutellum black shining; elytra entirely red sanguineous only with blackish shadings at apical extremity; antennae black, legs brown; covered with fine, blackish, pubescence. Frons is convex with punctures umbilicate, contiguous. Antennae short, not reaching for about two segments the apices of posterior angles of pronotum; second segment as long as wide, third twice longer than second and twice longer than wide; fourth-tenth serrated, triangular, less twice longer than wide; eleventh longer than penultimate, strongly narrowed at apex. Pronotum 1.2 times wider than long, strongly and regularly convex, at base abruptly declivous without any vestige of median longitudinal furrow; sides arcuate, notably narrowed in the anterior third, feebly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter unicarinate, with carina directed inside; punctuation uneven; on the central part of disk with deep and simple punctures separated by intervals shorter than their own diameters; at sides denser, umbilicate, rounded with shortest intervals, someone ellipsoidal and contiguous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, feebly convex, punctured. Elytra 2.75 times longer than pronotum; sides subparallel for about two third of the length then gently narrowing toward apex; striae regularly impressed, punctured; interstriae flat with rough surface. Male genitalia typical of the genus, paramere acutely dentate as in Fig.3b (length 1.12 mm; width 0.45 mm). Female larger; sides of pronotum more sinuate before the posterior angles ( Fig.1c ). Copulatrix bursa with spines as in Fig.4a, 4b .

Etymology: Named for the country, Turkey, where the species occurs.

Ecological notes: Specimens were collected under bark of a cut poplar in a fruit garden.

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Figures

FIGURE 1. Adults; a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp. ♂; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♂; c, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♀

FIGURE 2. Antennae (scale = 1 mm); a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp. ♂.; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♂; c, Ampedus turcicus n. sp. ♀

FIGURE 3. Male genital organs (scale = 1 mm); a, Athous (O.) demirsoyi n. sp.; b, Ampedus turcicus n. sp.

FIGURE 4. Ampedus turcicus n. sp. (scale = 1 mm); a, bursa copulatrix; b, chitinized spines