Elathous nigricans Platia & Schimmel, 1991

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 249

Elathous nigricans Platia & Schimmel

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Elathous nigricans Platia & Schimmel, 1991: 132 .

Type depository. Holotype, male ( MCNG); 6 paratypes: 5 males, 1 female (1 male: BMNH, 1 female: MCNG, 2 males: PCGP, 1 male PCPC; 1 male from Crete has not been located in any of the collections mentioned in the original description nor in the collections checked by authors).

Type locality. Turkey: Mersin prov., Çamlıyayla, Lampron castle (=Namrun Kalesi) env. [Umg. Namrun] .

Distribution. Greece (Crete) [needs to be confirmed], Turkey.

Literature. Platia & Schimmel (1991: 132, 141): original description, key, figures; Mertlik (2005: 171): comparison with other species; Kesdek et al. (2006: 421): distributional record; Cate (2007: 164): catalogue; Gülperçin & Tezcan (2010: 34): catalogue; Sert & Kabalak (2011: 505): distributional note; Kabalak et al. (2013: 88): distributional note, key, bionomics; Gülperçin & Tezcan (2016: 134, 136, 138, 141): bionomics, distributional notes; Kabalak & Özbek (2018: 147): distributional note; Tarnawski et al. (2018: 117): catalogue; Etzler (2019: 307): checklist; Németh (2019: 137): comparison with other species.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Palearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. lizlerwerneri Mertlik & Dušánek, 2006, holotype, male; B, E. maestrei Zapata de la Vega & Sánchez-Ruiz, 2012, holotype, male; C, E. malatyanus Etzler, 2019 (replacement name for E. bicolor Platia, 2010), holotype, male; D, E. melanarius Platia & Kakiopoulos, 2014, holotype, male; E, E. mertliki Platia & Schimmel, 1992, holotype, male; F, E. murzovi Platia, 2010, paratype, male; G, E. niger Schwarz, 1897, syntype, male; H, E. nigricans Platia & Schimmel, 1991, holotype, male. Photograph B provided by M. París (MNCN), photograph D provided by G. Platia (Italy). Scale bars: 3.0 mm. Labels not to scale.