Cardiophorus anatolicus, Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014

Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, Zootaxa 3841 (4), pp. 451-490 : 466-467

Cardiophorus anatolicus sp. n.

(Figs 35–36, 87–89)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Turkey: “Diarbekir [= Diyarbakır], 932, leg. v. Ajtai” ( HNHM). Three paratypes (1 male, 2 females): same data as holotype (2); “Elasis [=Elâz??], 1932, v. Ajtai” (1 female, HNHM, 1 male, 1 female, CPG).

Diagnosis. Among the bicoloured species of Cardiophorus from Turkey it can be compared with C. maculicollis Reiche et Saucly, 1856 ( Platia & Gudenzi, 2000) , but can be distinguished by the abdominal ventrites being black, the pronotum entirely reddish orange or with only a trace of a black spot and blackish legs.

Description. Male (Fig. 35). Bicoloured; pronotum and propleura completely red-orange or with trace of short, elongate, black spot on middle of anterior part (holotype and one female paratype); head, scutellum, elytra and prosternum black; antennae and legs dark brown; covered with very dense and fine yellowish pubescence.

Frons subconvex, slightly impressed near anterior margin, this moderately thickened and subarcuate; puncturation very uniform, punctures contiguous, approximately of same size.

Antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by more than two antennomeres, very slightly serrated from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, twice longer than wide, third to tenth subtriangular, 2.7× longer than wide on average, last as long as penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at middle, very convex; sides arcuate, from middle equally converging anteriorly and posteriorly, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter short, truncate, slightly divergent, shortly carinate; lateral margin very fine, obsolete after middle; puncturation very uniformly distributed, punctures approximately of same size, with very short intervals or contiguous giving subshiny appearance.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, emarginate at middle of base, moderately impressed at middle, finely punctured.

Elytra 2.6× longer than pronotum and a little wider than it, widest slightly behind middle; striae regularly and deeply punctured; interstriae subconvex, densely punctured.

Claws simple.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 87 (length 1.07 mm).

Female (Fig. 36). Very similar to male, but elytra more dilated behind middle. Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 88, furca as in Fig. 89. Size. Length 7–7.5 mm; width 2–2.25 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Anatolian peninsula, the Asian part of Turkey where the species was collected.