Adelocera kundlanensis, Platia, 2015

Platia, Giuseppe, 2015, New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 3-52 : 9-10

Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp.

( Figs. 8, 8a , 63 , 101, 134)

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Baluchistan, 90 km SSE of Quetta, Kundlani , 20-23.II.1995, Hauck & Čížek Leg. ( CPG).

Diagnosis. A species easily separated from all the known species of the region for the very small size and body densely covered with thickened whitish scale-like pubescence; for the male genitalia with simple paramera it is allied to A. schuberti Platia & Gudenzi, 2002 from Turkey.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely brownish with yellow undefined areas at angles of pronotum and base of elytra; antennae and legs yellowish; covered with very apparent, recumbent, whitish, scale-like pubescence.

Frons convex, flat only at the anterior margin, the latter straight and touching the clypeus; punctures coarse, deep, simple, contiguous.

Antennae short just exceeding the middle of pronotum, serrated from the fourth article on; second and third articles subcylindrical and subequal in length, taken together, longer than the fourth; fourth to tenth triangular; fourth to sixth as long as wide; seventh to tenth wider than long; the last longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal, asymmetrically constricted before the apex.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at the middle and base, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and nearly vertically at base; sides subparallel from before the middle to the apices of posterior angles, the latter pointed, not divergent and acarinate; lateral margin entire and nearly all visible in a dorsal view; punctures coarse, rather uniformly distributed, deep, simple with very short intervals.

Scutellum quadrangular, flat, punctured.

Elytra 2.1x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, moderately convex; sides ovaliform; surface regularly striate and deeply punctured; interstriae flat with smaller punctures.

Propleurae deeply furrowed to receive the anterior legs and running parallel to the antennal grooves; metasternal tarsal groove present.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 8, 8a (length 0. 71 mm).

Size. Length 3.75 mm; width 1.28 mm.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The name is derived from Kundlani, the locality where the species was collected.

Figures

Figs. 3-8.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 3, 3a.- Lacon monticola (Candèze, 1897). 4, 4a.- Lanelater bipunctatus (Candèze, 1857). 5, 5a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. 6, 6a.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 7, 7a.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 8, 8a.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp.

Figs. 58-65.- First or last articles of antennae. 58.- Lacon brachypterus n. sp. 59.- Lanelater sabatinellii n. sp. 60, 60a.- Lanelater pakistanicus n. sp. ♂♀. 61.- Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp. 62.- Adelocera islamabadensis n. sp. 63.- Adelocera kundlanensis n. sp. 64.- Adelocera afghana Platia & Gudenzi, 2002, ♀. 65.- Adelocera foveatus Vats & Kashyap, 1992.