Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2023, Review of the subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952, the genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Zootaxa 5375 (4), pp. 550-564 : 551

Subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952

Type species: Turcmenicola jachontovi Bogatchev, 1952 by monotypy.

Bogatchev, 1952: 44 (as genus); Skopin, 1961a: 25 (as junior synonym of Colposcelis ( Scelocolpis )); Medvedev, 1970: 405 ( Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola )).

Diagnosis of the subgenus. Body usually robust in males and females, with long thin legs (body slender only in males of C. selevini ). Head with very deep semicircular emargination between genae and epistoma, base of mandibles dorsally open. Anterior margin of epistoma straight or slightly rounded. Prothoracic hypomera and pronotum extremely finely and sparsely punctured; punctures often poorly visible. Elytra much wider than pronotum, with complete or shortly interrupted in middle basal border. Humeri widely rounded, poorly expressed or absent, not protruded. Lateral elytral carina between disc and epipleura very thin, as groove; rounded on the ventral side together with the lateral margin of the disc. Epipleural carina without sharp borders passes into the bordering of elytral base. Base of elytra gently sloping, without sharp vertical margin. Male genitalia typical for Tentyriini : aedeagus inverted (tegmen located ventrally, and median lobe dorsally), ventral processes of apical piece absent, apical piece of tegmen weakly curved. Ovipositor is also typical for Tentyriini ( Doyen 1993; Ren & Ba 2010; Chigray & Nabozhenko 2018; Chigray et al. 2018; Chigray & Abakumov 2019; Kamiński et al. 2022): proctiger not sclerotized at apex, with thin straight baculi. Paraproct long, with slightly S-shaped baculi; coxite lobe I large, with transverse baculi basally, coxite lobes II–IV merged; lobes IV with weakly sclerotized oval areas (place of articulation of reduced gonostyli) and strongly sclerotized processes rounded at apex. Genital ducts usual for Tentyriini , very simple: bursa copulatrix (spermatheca sensu Doyen (1993)) long, sub-acute, accessory gland long and thickened.