Craspedostethus ferrugineus, 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 : 483-484

Craspedostethus ferrugineus sp. n.

(Figs. 68, 135–136)

Material examined. Holotype, female: Iran: “ IRAN, prov. Fars, Zagros, 5 km above Thangebolhayat (to Shiraz), 1750 m, 6–7.X.2002, leg. P. Gyulai & A. Garai” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species is allied to C. chittaroi Platia, 2012 described from Oman by the presence of an asymmetrical, subcircular sclerite in the bursa copulatrix; it can be separated by the different puncturation of the pronotum which is widest at middle.

Description. Female (Fig. 68). Entirely dark ferruginous with antennae and legs slightly lighter; covered with dense, long, recumbent and on sides of elytra partially erect yellow-golden pubescence.

Frons convex between eyes, flat at anterior margin, latter moderately thickened and regularly curved; puncturation double, larger punctures irregularly mixed with much smaller ones, intervals very short and shiny.

Antennae not reaching posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from fourth antennomere on, second subcylindrical, third subconical, subequal in length, taken together, slightly longer than fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average 2.5× longer than wide, last longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1.14× wider than long, widest at middle, convex, sides strongly arcuate, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter truncate, not divergent, shortly carinate; puncturation uniformly distributed, punctures of two sizes: larger, moderately umbilicate punctures mixed more or less regularly with much smaller (3–4 smaller punctures falling to one larger). Intervals shiny.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, flat, feebly emarginate at middle of base, finely punctured.

Elytra 2.33× longer than pronotum and as wide as it, convex, widest just behind middle; striae distinctly punctured, more superficial at posterior third; interstriae flat with very fine punctures.

Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 135 with symmetrical plate as in Fig. 136.

Male unknown.

Size. Length 6.2 mm; width 2.18 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the yellow-golden pubescence of this new species.