Dicronychus fabiani, 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 : 474

Dicronychus fabiani sp. n.

(Figs. 49, 105)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Iran: “ IRAN, Prov. Mazandaran Alborz Mts, 2580 m 15 km E of Lar-e Polur 52°06’10”E 35°52’28”N 12–13.V.2001. leg: Gy. Fábián & K. Vig” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to D. diluvii sp. n. in general shape and size, but it can be separated by having shorter antennae, the pronotum being widest at middle with finer puncturation and pointed apices of paramera in the male genitalia.

Description. Male (Fig 49). Entirely black with antennae and legs brown-ferruginous with femura blackish; covered with dense, yellowish pubescence.

Head with eyes a little narrower than anterior margin of pronotum, frons flat between eyes, slightly impressed before anterior margin, this regularly arcuate; punctures simple, very fine, with very short intervals.

Antennae slightly exceeding posterior angles of pronotum, moderately serrated from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, less than twice longer than wide; third conical, 1.25× longer than second and twice longer than wide; second and third, taken together, 1.7× longer than fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average twice longer than wide, last as long as penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest at middle, strongly convex; sides strongly arcuate and regularly narrowing anteriorly and posteriorly from middle; posterior angles short, truncate, not divergent, with a fine carina; lateral margin fine, obsolete from midldle; puncturation uniformly distributed, punctures simple, of equal size, with very short intervals.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, emarginate at middle of base, impressed at middle and very finely punctured. Elytra 2.7× longer and slightly wider than pronotum, convex; oval, widest at middle, striae distinct and punctured; interstriae slightly convex, with finer punctures.

Claws dentate in the basal half.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 105.

Female unknown.

Size. Length 7.7 mm; width 2.43 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to one of the collectors of the holotype, György Fábián, private lepidopterist in Budapest.