Agrypnus dadarensis, Akhter, Muhammad Atique, Drumont, Alain, Rizvi, Syed Anser & Ahmed, Zubair, 2012

Akhter, Muhammad Atique, Drumont, Alain, Rizvi, Syed Anser & Ahmed, Zubair, 2012, Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan, Zootaxa 3223, pp. 40-54 : 42

Agrypnus dadarensis sp. n.

(Figs: 1 & 2)

Material examined. Holotype male, Pakistan; Kheybar Pakhton Khoa Province, Dadar, 10. vii. 2004, leg. Zubair ( NHMUK).

Measurement. (Holotype) Length 11.00 mm; width 5.00 mm.

Coloration. Reddish-black, legs and antennae blackish-brown, covered with dense vestiture.

Head. Small, rhomboidal, concave; frons dilated anteriorly, clypeus with anterior margin rounded and deflexed laterally, deep punctures with dense vestiture; antennae exceeding beyond the mid of pronotum, basal antennomere robust, 2nd and 3rd antennomeres smaller than others, 2nd antennomere broader and slightly longer than 3rd antennomere, apically subtruncate, 3rd antennomere narrower than 2nd antennomere, apically rounded, last antennomere elongate, slightly deflexed apically.

Thorax. Pronotum slightly broader than long, sides entire, thoroughly convex on disc, gently slopes at sides, fine punctation, with dense vestiture, hind angles emerginated, apices subrounded; prosternum deeply punctured with dense vestiture; propleurae with grooved for reception of anterior tarsi; scutellum shield shaped, covered with dense, recumbent vestiture; elytra with basal margin broader than base of pronotum, widest at middle, narrower apically, strial margin of 6 and 7 row deeply punctate, interstriae convex, impunctate.

Male genitalia. (Fig: 2) Aedeagus with median lobe longer than parameres, narrow, tubular with rounded apex; parameres elongate, dilated at base, angulate beyond the middle; two median struts lying under the base of parameres.

Female. Unknown

Etymology. This species is named for the type locality.

Diagnosis. The new species most closely resembles A. piger (Candèze) in the pronotum being broader than long, propleurae with grooves for reception of anterior tarsi, antennae extended beyond the middle of pronotum, aedeagus (Fig: 7) with median lobe much narrower towards apex, acuminate, apices of parameres angulate laterally, basal plate entirely broad, but it can easily separated by having rhomboidal head in shape, emarginated hind angles of pronotum and metasternum without grooves for accommodating the anterior tarsi, aedeagus with median lobe tubular, apex rounded, apices of parameres straight, sides of basal plate rounded, base truncate with distinct angles.