Aeoloides iranicus Platia & Gudenzi, 2002

Nasserzadeh, Hiva, Platia, Giuseppe & Serri, Sayeh, 2023, Click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Khuzestan province (Iran): with three new species, Craspedostethus izehensis sp. n., Dicronychus khuzestanicus sp. n. and Gurjevelater catei sp. n., Zootaxa 5346 (2), pp. 101-130 : 104-105

Aeoloides iranicus Platia & Gudenzi, 2002

( Figs. 1‒2 , Map 2 )

Material examined ( HMIM). 2 exs.: “KHOUZESTAN [KHUZESTAN] / Ahvaz, Mollasani / 9.5.1975 — 40 m. / PAZUKI, BORUMAND” [female genitals mounted in euparal on transparent card] .

Description of female: similar to male. Body entirely testaceous with darker line on the margin of habitus and edge of carina on the posterior angles of pronotum ( Figures 1a,b ). Antenna one antennomere shorter than apices of posterior angles of pronotum ( Figures 1a ). Elytra (in both sexes) rounded at the end with a very small spine at elytral apices ( Figure 1c ). Female genitalia as in figures 1d, e, spermatheca not sclerotized, consisting a delicate twisted membranous tube ( Figure 1e ).

Size. Length 8.0 mm; width 2.3 mm.

Note. The female was not previously known.

Climate types. Arid to semi-arid, with cool to mild winters and very warm summers.

Distribution. Iran (in southern and southeastern Iran, Hormozgan and Khuzestan (first record) provinces) ( Cate 2007; Platia & Gudenzi 2002; present study).

Figures

MAP 2. Distribution map of Aeoloderma, Aeoloides and Aeolosomus species in Khuzestan.

FIGURE1.Aeoloidesiranicus, female:(a)Dorsalhabitus;(b)abdomen,ventral view,(c)tiny spine atelytralapices,(d)ovipositor, terminalia and genital tract, (e) membranous twisted tube of the spermatheca (photo taken by compound microscope).

FIGURE 2. Aeoloides iranicus, male: (a) Dorsal habitus; (b) abdomen, ventral view, (c) aedeagus, dorsal view.