Cylindrinotus batesi Allard, 1876

Nabozhenko, Maxim, 2015, Review of the Genus Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini), The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69, pp. 101-114 : 107

Cylindrinotus batesi Allard, 1876

( Figs. 34, 35 , 50, 51 , 66, 67 )

Cylindrinotus batesi Allard 1876: 15 , 39. Allard 1877: 51, 216; Seidlitz 1896: 721 (note); Reitter 1922: 125 (note). Lectotype male at BMNH, labeled “ Kurdistan // Cylindrinotus batesi // Cylindrinotus batesi type All.//F. Bates Coll. 81–19.”. Lectotype is designated here.

Material Examined. TURKEY: 1♂, 2 ♀ ♀: Choruh (valley of Çoruh River ), 1896, leg. Herz ( ZIN) ; 1♀: Trapezund (now Trabzon), 17.v.1917, leg. W. Eichler ( ZIN) ; 4♂♂: Artvin Province, Hatila River valley, Fıstıklı , 2.v.2007, leg. M.V. Nabozhenko ( CN) .

Distribution. The species is known only from Artvin and Trabzon Provinces of Turkey.

Bionomics. Specimens of C. batesi were found in Artvin Province at night (21:00 hrs) on the trunks of Fagus orientalis Lipsky (Fagaceae) , where they fed on foliose lichens.

Figures

Figs. 28–45. Cylindrinotus species, aedeagus. 28, 29) C. femoratus; 30, 31) C. acutangulus; 32, 33) C. nitidus; 34, 35) C. batesi; 36, 37) C. gibbicollis; 38, 39) C. erivanus; 40, 41) C. constrictus; 42, 43) C. gibbosus; 44, 45) C. charlesi. Even numbered figures = ventral view; odd numbered figures = lateral view.

Figs. 46–59. Cylindrinotus species, gastral spicula. 46, 47) C. femoratus; 48, 49) C. acutangulus; 50, 51) C. batesi; 52, 53) C. erivanus; 54, 55) C. constrictus; 56, 57) C. gibbosus; 58, 59) C. charlesi. Even numbered figures = ventral view; odd numbered figures = lateral view.

Figs. 62–67. Cylindrinotus species, habitus. 62) C. femoratus, male, Armenia (Photograph by M. E. Smirnov from www.zin.ru\Animalia\Coleoptera); 63) C. femoratus, female, holotype of C. funestus; 64) C. nitidus, male; 65) C. nitidus, female; 66) C. batesi, male; 67) C. batesi, female.