Idotarmonides gracilis, 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 : 461

Idotarmonides gracilis sp. n.

( Figs 20–21 , 80)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Turkey: “Alanya Törökország [= Turkey] 1977.VI. VI.7. leg. Podlussány” ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. A species distinct from the other congeners by the smaller body and shorter antennae.

Description. Male ( Fig. 20 ). Head and scutellum brown, pronotum reddish with undefined blackish shadings on the central part of disk and sides, elytra lighter, yellowish with feeble balckish shadings around scutellum, at sides and apex; antennae ferruginous, legs yellowish; covered with dense, yellow fulvous pubescence.

Head with eyes nearly as wide as anterior margin of pronotum, frons convex between the eyes, flat at anterior margin; puncures coarse, strongly umbilicate, contiguous.

Antennae ( Fig. 21 ) exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by one antennomere, serrated from third antennomere on; second antennomere small, globose, third conical, slightly shorter than fourth, four to tenth triangular, on average less than twice longer than wide; last longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at posterior angles, convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; sides slightly dilated from middle, sinuate before posterior angles, latter moderately divergent, with fine carina directed inside; puncturation uniformly distributed, punctures strongly umbilicate with very short, shiny intervals or contiguous.

Scutellum shield-shaped, flat, finely punctured.

Elytra 2.7× longer than and as wide as pronotum, convex; sides from base to apex gradually and regularly tapering; striae distinct and punctured; interstriae flat with subrugose surface.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 80.

Female unknown.

Size. Length 4.85 mm; width 1.25 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the small body of the species.

Figures

FIGURES 20 – 21. Idotarmonides gracil is sp. n.: 20 = holotype, male habitus, 21 = antennae. 22 – 24. Agriotes balikesirensis sp. n.: 22 = holotype, male habitus, 23 = antennae, 24 = female habitus. 25 – 27. Agriotes barkulensis Jagemann, 1942: 25 = male habitus, 26 = head, 27 = pronotum. 28 – 29. Agriotes roznerorum sp. n., 28 = holotype, male habitus, 29 = antennae. 30 – 31. Agriotes sakaryaensis sp. n.: 30 = holotype, male habitus, 31 = antennae. 32 – 34. Oedostethus pektusanicus sp. n.: 32 = holotype, male habitus, 33 = male pronotum, 34 = female habitus. 35 – 36. Cardiophorus anatolicus sp. n.: 35 = holotype, male habitus, 36 = female habitus. Not to scale.