Euboeus (Pelorinus) quadricollis (Ménétriés, 1832)

Nabozhenko, Maxim V., 2022, A taxonomic review of the genus Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) of the Caucasus, Iran and Turkmenistan, Zootaxa 5159 (4), pp. 451-486 : 476-477

Euboeus (Pelorinus) quadricollis (Ménétriés, 1832)

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Hedyphanes quadraticollis Ménétriés, 1832: 196 .

Type material. Holotype, ♂ ( ZIN): “Mont. Taliish”, “ quadraticollis Menet. Zouvant ”, bronze square, “ Holotypus Helops quadraticollis Ménétriés, 1832 ” (Nabozhenko’s label) ( Fig. 13B ).

Material. Azerbaijan. 1♂, 4♀ ( ZIN): Azerbaijan, 25 km below Yardýmlý, meadows, 2–3.vi.2008 (leg. D. Kasatkin) . Iran. 1♂ ( SMNH): Iran, Ardabil Prov., Nir env., 27.iv.2006 (leg. M. Machálik) ; 1♀ ( SMNH) ; 1♂ ( NMPC): Iran, Azerbaijan-e Sharqi Prov., Sefide Khan , 25 km S Tabriz, 7.v.2002 (S. Kadlec).

Note. Full bibliography for this species covering complicated historical and nomenclatural issues with application of two names quadraticollis / quadricollis for this species, discussion about the author of the taxon, as well as short redescription and figures were published by Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011).

Distribution. Azerbaijan (Talysh Mts.: Yardýmlý and Lerik districts), North Iran (Ardabil and Azerbaijan-e Sharqi provinces). New record for Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Euboeus kasatkini sp. nov., habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = male metatibia; C = male, ventrally; D = female, dorsally; E = male, head and pronotum, dorsally; F = ditto, dorso-laterally; G = prothoracic hypomeron; H = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; I = spiculum gastrale; J = tegmen, ventrally; K = median lobe of aedeagus, dorsally; L = dorsal and ventral connective membranes between median lobe and tegmen; M = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally.

FIGURE 16. Euboeus quadricollis, male, holotype. A = habitus dorsally; B = labels.

FIGURE 17. Euboeus quadricollis, habitus, details of structure. A = male, dorsally; B = male, ventrally; C = female, dorsally; D = male, head and pronotum, dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prothoracic hypomeron; G = male inner sternite VIII, ventrally; H = spiculum gastrale; I = median lobe of aedeagus, ventrally; J = tegmen, ventrally; K = apical piece of aedeagus, dorsally.