Laena parvidens Reitter, 1890

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2020, New taxonomic and faunistic data to species of the genus Laena Dejean from Turkey (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 385-398 : 395

Laena parvidens Reitter, 1890

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Examined specimens: Turkey, W Amasya, 20 km N Çorum, 17.IV.1997, leg. S. Kadlec & J. Vořišek, 2 ex. SMNS .

Remarks: L. merkli is similar but with different shape of the posterior angles of pronotum and different humeral angles (compare Figs. 11, 12 ). Additionally, in L. merkli the antennomeres are relatively broad, whereas in L. parvidens these are longer and narrow.

Published locality: Samsun ( Schuster 1916).

Figures

FIGURES 9–21. Dorsal view of Laena species from Turkey (and few from Greece and Bulgaria). 9 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS. 10 L. wanensis, Kayseri, SMNS. 11 L. merkli, Göksun, SMNS. 12 L. parvidens, Amasya, SMNS. 13 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 14 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 15 L. byzantina, Abant, SMNS. 16 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype SMNS. 17 L. sp. ♀, Antalya, SMNS. 18 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 19 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 20 L. obscuricornis, Tarsus, SMNS. 21 L. graeca, Bulgaria Burgas, SMNS. Scale line: 3.0 mm.