Heteroderes opacoflavus, 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 : 10

Heteroderes opacoflavus n. sp. ( Fig. 10 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Noshero Feroz distr. , 8.V.2013 ( CPG).

Diagnosis. Species immediately separated from all of the region by the general appearance of opaque surface of pronotum and ochraceous colour of the integuments.

Description.

Male. Not shiny; entirely yellow-ochraceous with a vague, darkish vitta along the elytral suture extending to the first four interstriae after the middle and before the apices to form a suboval vi tta.

Head with the eyes as wide as the anterior margin of pronotum, frons convex, anteri or margin regularly arcuate, just protruding above the clypeus; punctuation uniformly distributed; larger punctures are mixed with extremely fine punctures giving to the surface a subshiny appearance.

An tennae mu tila ted.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at the middle and at the pices of the posterior angles, very convex; sides moderately arcuate from behind the middle very gradually converging forwards, subparallel to the posterior angles, the latter short, acuminate, very slightly divergent, with a fine carina subparallel to the lateral margins, this in the first half visible in a dorsal view; punctuation uniformly distributed, double; larger punctures are mixed with extremely fine punctures giving to the surface a opaque appearance.

Scutellum shield -shaped, convex, ridged at base, finely punctured.

Elytra 2,16x longer than pronotum and just narrower than it, convex; sides subparallel from base to behind the middle, then very gradually narrowing to the apices; striae well marked and punctured, interstriae subconvex with rough surface.

Fourth tarsal segment with a long and narrow lamella.

Male genitalia as in the Fig. 10 (length 0.85 mm).

Female. Unknown.

Size. Length 6.75 mm; width 1.87 mm.

Etymology. The name is derived from the combination of opaque surface and colour of the integu men ts.

Figures

Figs. 10-12.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 10.- Heteroderes opacofulvus n. sp. 11.- Heteroderes brachmanoides n. sp.; 12, 12a.- Neoathousius loebli Schimmel & Platia, 1991.