Adelocera sabatinellii, 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 : 8-9

Adelocera sabatinellii n. sp.

( Figs. 6, 6a , 61 , 99, 132)

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Islamabad , Sect. 7 (33°43'N, 73°03'E), 600 m, 20.VI.- 20.VII.2011, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light ( CPG).

Diagnosis. Species near Adelocera morniensis Vats & Kashyap, 1992 from NW India (Haryana) for the bicoloured pronotum and male genitalia with paramera acutely dentate, it can be separated by the pronotum narrower than the elytra, with posterior angles truncate.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; bicoloured with a moderate contrast; entirely blackish with the great part of frons, sides of pronotum, base of elytra, and underside, ferruginous; antennae with the first two articles ferrugineus, then yellowish, legs ferruginous; covered with moderate, recumbent, silver, scale-like pubescence.

Frons very slightly impressed at centre, anterior margin not thickened, feebly emarginate at the middle and nearly touching the clypeus; punctuation coarse, punctures deep and contiguous.

Antennae short, just exceeding the middle of pronotum, strongly serrated from the fourth article on; second and third articles subequal in length, second subcylindrical, third subconical, as long as wide; second and third articles, taken together, as long as the fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, fifth to seventh as long as wide, eighth to tenth wider than long, the last one longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1.3x wider than long, widest at the middle, strongly convex, abruptly sloping at sides, nearly vertically sloping at base; sides subparallel at the middle, conspicuously narrowing at the anterior third and constricted at the apical extremities; very shortly narrowing near the posterior angles, the latter very short and smoothed, not carinate; lateral margins entire and visible in a dorsal view; punctuation very strong, on the disc with punctures deep, simple or very slightly umbilicate with very short shiny intervals, gradually denser and contiguous towards the lateral extremities.

Scutellum shield-shaped impressed at base, densely punctured.

Elytra 2.55x longer than the pronotum and wider than it, very convex; sides ovaliform; surface very coarsely and densely punctured with indistinct striae.

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

Aedeagus as in Figs. 6, 6a (length 0.87 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 6.50 mm; width 2.55 mm.

Etymology. The species is dedicated to the collector, G. Sabatinelli.

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.