Cardiophorus tharensis, Platia & Ahmed, 2016

Platia, Giuseppe & Ahmed, Zubair, 2016, Contribution to the fauna of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 16, pp. 3-28 : 13

Cardiophorus tharensis n. sp. ( Figs. 20, 20a , 36 , 54 )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ - Pakistan: Thar , 2.VII.2013 ( CPG).

Diagnosis. A species immediately separated from the all known of the region because of the large size.

Description.

Female. Not shiny; entirely blackish with antennae and legs ferruginous; covered with very dense, yellowish pubescence.

Frons slightly impressed in the anterior half, anterior margin moderately thickened, sinuate at the sides and at the middle, protruding above the clypeus; punctuation dense, punctures approximately of the same size, with very short, variable intervals and also contiguous.

Antennae not reaching for more of two articles the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from the third article on; second article subcylindrical, twice longer than wide and 1,25x shorter than third; third -tenth conical, subequal in length, on average twice longer than wide, last as long as the previous, strongly constricted before the apex.

Pronotum 1,12x wider than long, widest at the middle, strongly convex with a vestige of superficial mid-longitudinal depression on the basal slope; sides very arcuate, from the middle equally converging forwards and backwards; posterior angles s hort, truncate, not divergent; lateral suture-like margins obsolescent at the anterior third; punctuation very dense and uniformly distributed, punctures variable in diameters but without two clear separate sizes, simple or very vaguely umbilicate with intervals smooth and on average a little smaller than their own diameters.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, impressed at middle, emarginate at base, finely punctu red.

Elytra 2,4x longer than pronotum and as wide as it, convex, ovaliform with the great width at the middlestriae well marked and punctured; interstriae subconvex with very fine punctures.

Claws simple.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in the Figs. 20, 20a .

Male. Unknown.

Size. Length 8.75 mm; width 2.75 mm.

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

Figures

Figs. 20-22.- Sclerites of the bursa copulatrix. 20, 20a.- Cardiophorus tharensis n. sp. 21, 21a.- Cardiophorus pakistanicus Platia, 2015. 22, 22a.- Dicronychus islamabadensis n. sp.

Figs. 29-39.- Details of profile of pronotum or elytra.

Figs. 54-65.- Habitus in total or partial view. 63 54.- Cardiophorus tharensis n. sp. 55.- Cardiophorus doggerioides n. sp. 56.- Cardiophorus pakistanicus Platia, 2015 (♀). 57.- Dicronychus islamabadensis n. sp. 58.- Dicronychus mithiensis n. sp. 59.- Dicronychus stolatoides n. sp. 60.- Dicronychus oxypterus (Candèze, 1860). 61.- Dicronychus stolatus (Erichson, 1840) (♀). 62.- Phorocardius pakistanicus n. sp. (♂). 63-64.- Phorocardius pakistanicus n. sp. (♀♀). 65.- Phorocardius tibialis n. sp. (♂).