Cardiophorus burkus, Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014

Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, Zootaxa 3841 (4), pp. 451-490 : 467-469

Cardiophorus burkus sp. n.

(Figs 38, 91–92)

Material examined. Holotype, female: Afghanistan: “J. Klapperich Banda - e - Mir, 3200 m Hazaradjat, 31.8.52 Zentral– Afghanistan “ ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This is a large species close to C. aenigmatosus Dolin et Sausa, 1997 from the Far East of Russia in having the distinctive, suboval intermediate sclerites on the bursa copulatrix, but it is easily separated by the strongly arcuate sides of the pronotum and with punctures of different size.

Description. Female (Fig. 38). Entirely pitchy black with antennae and legs dark brown; covered with dense, short, yellowish pubescence.

Frons flat, slightly impressed at anterior margin, latter moderately thickened, regularly curved and slightly protruding above clypeus; puncturation very dense, punctures approximately of same size with very short intervals or contiguous.

Antennae slightly exceeding posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from third antennomeres on; second subconical, 1.5× longer than wide; third to tenth subtriangular, third 1.5× longer than second and a little shorter than following antennomeres; fourth to tenth on average 2.5× longer than wide; last a little longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal, pointed at apical third.

Pronotum 1.09× wider than long, widest at middle, convex, with a very shallow and narrow mid-longitudinal line on basal slope; sides arcuate, from middle regularly converging to base, posterior angles truncate, not divergent, shortly carinate, lateral margin distinct, curved, obsolete in anterior third; puncturation uniformly distributed; punctures of two sizes, larger punctures irregularly scattered among smaller, half as wide punctures.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, emarginate at middle of base, slightly impressed and finely punctured.

Elytra 2.57× longer than and as wide as pronotum, convex, sides widest slightly behind middle; striae deeply impressed and distinctly punctured, interstriae subconvex with very fine and dense punctures.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 91, symmetrical caudate plate as in Fig. 92.

Claws simple.

Male unknown.

Size. Length 10.3 mm; width 3.18 mm.

Etymology. This specific epithet refers to its habitus; “ burkus ” means “bulky” in the slang of Hungarian entomologists.