Odocnemis anatolica

Nabozhenko, Maxim & Keskin, Bekir, 2016, Revision of the genus Odocnemis Allard, 1876 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran with observations on feeding habits, Zootaxa 4202 (1), pp. 1-97 : 7

Odocnemis anatolica species-group

Keskin & Nabozhenko, 2011 ( O. korbi species-group).

Description. Body usually large (length up to 15 mm), dull or weakly shining. Temples with groove in anterior part. Hypomera with distinct longitudinal wrinkles and without punctation. Elytra with small distinct tubercles apically and laterally. Epipleura flattened from base to sutural angles, their inner small carina reaching sutural angles. Dorsal epipleural carinae reaching apex of elytra, where transformed to horizontal platform. Wings absent. Abdominal ventrites. Male abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 without hair brush. Male ventrite 5 with small round depression, female ventrite 5 with larger oval depression. Legs. Male pro- and mesotibiae with distinct teeth, metatibiae without teeth or with one large tooth in basal half. Only one species ( O. erseni ) has small granules on metatibiae. Male profemora punctate and pubescent with recumbent hairs on inner side. Each trochanter with one long setae. Male genitalia. Apical piece thickened, with longitudinal depression on dorsal side, weakly S-shaped; parameres dorsoventrally flattened. Basal piece 2–2.65 × as long as apical piece. Median lobe baculi usually not merged, acute on apex, some species ( O. nasreddini , O. malgorzatae ) with merged median lobe baculi. Gastral spicula with straight branches (dorsoventral view) and large lobes. Male inner sternite VIII weakly sclerotized, without wrinkles on inner side, with fine punctation and dense setaetion. Female genital tubes. Basal duct of spermatheca absent, spermatheca with small processes in basal half, accessory gland long, about 3 × as long as spermatheca.

Distribution. Southern Turkey: Mediterranean transitional region (Lakes Region), northern and western parts of Taurus Mountains.

Composition. O. anatolica , O. perarmata , O. svetlanae svetlanae , O. svetlanae beydagensis , O. nassreddini , O. malgorzatae , O. erseni sp. n., O. molecularica sp. n., O. seriegranata ,