Elathous serti Kabalak, Avcı & Platia, 2013

Kabalak, Mahmut, Platia, Giuseppe & Avci, Mustafa, 2013, A new species of Elathous Reitter (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Turkey, Zootaxa 3737 (1), pp. 85-91 : 86-88

Elathous serti Kabalak, Avcı & Platia , n. sp.

( Figs 1–5 )

Type material. Holotype: 1 ♂ Isparta Province, Aşağıgökdere Village , August–September 2010, leg. M. Avcı. Paratypes: 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ Denizli Province, Honaz County, August–September 2010, leg. M. Avcı ; 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ Isparta Province, Aşağıgökdere Village , August–September 2010, leg. M. Avcı. Holotype and paratypes are deposited in Hacettepe University Zoology Museum ( HUZOM) at Hacettepe University Biology Department Ankara Turkey and one male paratype is deposited in collection of Dr. Giuseppe Platia in Gatteo , Italy ( CPG) .

Etymology. The new species is dedicated to entomologist Dr. Osman Sert, who made many contributions to the fauna and systematics of the family Curculionidae of Turkey.

Description. Male holotype. Length 7.62 mm; width 2.43 mm; body color testaceous, covered with slightly long and dense yellowish hairs; head including eyes as wide as anterior margin of pronotum, covered with slightly dense umbilicate punctures with shining interval, with a triangular impression beginning from vertex and extending to fronto-clypeal suture; fronto-clypeal suture a little thickened, distinctly straight, not touching the clypeus; last four segments of antenna missing equivalent length of full antenna estimated to be one segment short of posterior angles of pronotum, second segment sub-conical, 1.8 times longer than wide; third segment sub-conical, 1.9 times longer than wide, third segment 1.05 times longer than second; second and third taken together 1.4 times longer than fourth; fourth-seventh segments sub-serrate; pronotum 1.05 times longer than wide, convex, abruptly sloping at base and sides gradually sloping anteriorly; sides sinuate, distinctly arcuate medially, diverging at posterior angles, with distinct carina directed inside; punctuation evenly distributed, punctures on disk deep, simple, intervals variable equal to half or one times puncture diameters; at sides anterior margin a little denser and partially umbilicate; scutellum narrower than inter-elytral space, sub-rectangular, slightly convex, punctured; elytra as broad as pronotum, 2.42 times longer than pronotum, 2.17 times longer than wide, sides gradually enlarged from base distally, widest behind middle, gradually narrowing towards apex; interstriae sub-convex with sub-rugose surface, regularly and indistinctly punctured, interstriae feebly convex, coarsely and simply punctured, with rough surface; tarsal segments regularly decreasing in length; aedeagus length 0.89 mm, typical morphology ( Figs. 4 and 5 ) for the genus, median lobe thick and tongue shaped, clearly longer than parameres, strongly chitinized except lateral sides of medially extending strongly chitinized line, apex of median lobe largely rounded, arms of median lobe long, thin, extending parallel and slightly angled at apex; outer lateral sides of parameres distinctly sinuate and medially concave and rounded apically.

Female. Larger than male specimens.

Paratypes. Length 9.53– 7.37 mm, width 2.96– 2.26 mm. Some paratypes are yellow-ferrugineous, others are testaceous.

Habitat. Specimens were collected by using pheromone traps for Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston, 1857) ( Coleoptera , Curculionidae , Scolytidinae) from Pinus brutia Tenore forest in August–September 2010.

Figures

FIGURES. 1–3. Elathous serti 1) Holotype (male, scale bar = 2 mm), 2) Male paratype (scale bar = 2 mm) 3) Female paratype (scale bar = 2 mm).

FIGURES 4–7. Aedeagi of Elathous spp. 4) Elathous serti aedeagus habitus (scale bar = 0.2 mm), 5) E. serti (scale bar = 0.2 mm), 6) E. pavesii (redrawn from Platia and Schimmel 1992) (scale is not given by Platia & Schimmel 1992), 7) E. turcicus (redrawn from Platia and Gudenzi 2005) (scale bar = 0.2 mm).