Tapinopterus (Molopsis) oyukluensis, Lohaj, Roman, Guéorguiev, Borislav, Dubault, Gérard & Lassalle, Bernard, 2012

Lohaj, Roman, Guéorguiev, Borislav, Dubault, Gérard & Lassalle, Bernard, 2012, Revision of Molopsis Schatzmayr (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini), with descriptions of four new species, Zootaxa 3185, pp. 1-35 : 13-14

Tapinopterus (Molopsis) oyukluensis sp.nov.

(Figs. 14, 36, 54, 64, 86, 101, 116, 130)

Type locality. Faşikan pass, 1600 m, Konya, Turkey.

Material examined. One specimen.

Type material. Holotype 3, Faşikan pass, 1600 m, Konya Turquie, VII.86 B.Lassalle (p)/ HOLOTYPE Tapinopterus (sg. Molopsis ) oyukluensis n. sp. Lohaj, Guéorguiev, Dubault & Lassalle, 2007 (red p)/ (Fig. 14). The holotype is deposited in cBL.

Description. BL 13 mm, maximum width 4.1 mm. Head, pronotum and elytra dark brown, shiny, antennae, legs and abdomen piceous brown. Head large, robust, almost as long as wide, shiny, smooth, with very fine microsculpture. Antennae relatively short, reaching hind angles of pronotum, with dense, decumbent pubescence from antennomere 4.

Pronotum weakly transverse, wider than long, ratio PL/PW 0.73, with rounded lateral sides, shiny, smooth, with very fine transversal wringles along the midline. Anterior edge strongly sinuated, with prominent, at apex rounded angles. Posterior angles small, almost rectangular. Base of pronotum with single deep linear posterolateral impression on each side of midline, reaching basal third, smooth, disc without transversal wrinkles. Midline distinct, not reaching basal or anterior margins.

Elytra oval, slightly flattened, with maximum width in posterior third, with distinct, impunctate striae. Third elytral interval with two setigerous pores situated in apical half of elytra, 2nd behind the middle and 3rd behind apical third, situated in second elytral striae. One irregular setigerous pore is also present in the middle of first left elytral stria. Umbilicate series consists of 17, respective 16 setigerous punctures, in the first fourth interrupted, with distribution: left side 6 + 1 + 10, right side 6 + 10.

Male genitalia. Median lobe of aedeagus in dorsal view relatively short, apical lamella wide, directly curved to left (Figs. 36); apical orifice deflected to left lateral position, ventral margin forming right angle at medial part, apex regularly deflexed (Figs. 54, 64). Right paramere with basal part thicker than apical part, in middle constricted and curved, apex pointed towards tip (Fig. 86, 101). Left paramere subelongate, transverse apophysis reduced, paramedial apophysis, oblique, well-developed (Figs. 116, 130).

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Etymology. Topotypic, referring to the type locality, the mountain range Oyuklu daġi, northern part of Taurus Mountains, ca 100 km south of Konya.

Diagnosis. T. oyukluensis sp. nov. is closely related to T. phrygius , a species widely distributed in various mountain ranges of the Taurus (see also Check list). This species differs from all other species of Molopsis by the shape of the median lobe of aedeagus and left paramere; median lobe in dorsal view (Fig. 36) with apical lamella wide, directly curved to left (this state occurs also in T. phrygius , but here the lamella is thinner and either regularly curved to left (see Figs. 32–34) or slightly sinuous before apex (see Figs. 30–31); left paramere subelongate, with reduced transverse apophysis (Figs. 116, 130).

Distribution. Type specimen was collected in Faşikan geçidi (pass) between the villages of Taşkent and Sariveliler, ca 30 km southwest of ridge of mountain range Oyuklu daġi (Central Turkey, villayet Konya).