Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992)

Hoffmannova, Johana, Packova, Gabriela, Prosvirov, Alexander S., Akhter, Muhammad Atique & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5270 (2), pp. 281-305 : 287

Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992)

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Agrypnus triticumunis Vats & Kashyap, 1992b: 124 .

Compsolacon triticumunis: Platia, 2015a: 12 .

Agrypnus baghensis Akhter, Kabalak, Rizvi & Ahmed, 2014: 117 ; synonymized by Platia (2015a: 12).

Distribution. India, Pakistan ( Cate 2007, Akhter et al. 2014, Platia 2015a).

Literature. Akhter et al. (2014: 117): original description of A. baghensis , figures of male habitus, antenna and genitalia; Platia (2015a: 12): distributional record from Pakistan, synonymy, taxonomy, figures of female habitus, posterior angle of pronotum, antenna and genitalia; Mangi et al. (2020a: 2091): remark [as A. baghensis ].

Remark. Compsolacon triticumunis [as Agrypnus ] was originally described from India ( Vats & Kashyap 1992b), and A. baghensis from Pakistan ( Akhter et al. 2014).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus images of Agrypninae from Pakistan. A. Adelocera sabatinellii Platia, 2015 (male); B. Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats & Kashyap, 1992 (male); C. Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (female); D. Lacon mekrani (Candèze, 1889) (female). Scale bars = 2.0 mm (A), 3.0 mm (B, C, D).