Coptostethus attilai, 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 : 482

Coptostethus attilai sp. n.

( Figs. 66 , 133)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Spain, Canary Islands: “ Hispania, Gran Canaria, Los Pechos, 1800–1900 m, 14–19.II.1994, A. Podlussány” ( HNHM). 1 paratype, male: same data as holotype (CPG).

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to C. vittatus (H. Lindberg, 1953) in the general shape and pubescence, but it can be separated by the uniformly black colour of the elytra and by the denser puncturation of the pronotum.

Description. Male ( Fig. 66 ). Entirely black with antennae and legs ferruginous; covered with dense, partially erect at sides of elytra, yellowish, pubescence.

Frons convex between eyes, flat at anterior margin, this more or less regularly arcuate, puncturation coarse, punctures contiguous.

Antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by about 3.5 antennomeres, slightly serrate from third antennomere on, second subcylindrical, 2.3× longer than wide and shorter than fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, fourth twice longer than wide and shorter than following; fifth to tenth on average twice longer than wide, last as long as penultimate, ellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1.11× wider than long, widest just behind middle, convex, sides arcuate, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter truncate, not divergent, shortly carinate, lateral margin fine, obsolete at anterior third; puncturation uniformly distributed, punctures fine, simple, approximately of same size, with very short and shiny intervals or contiguous.

Scutellum heart-shaped, 1.3× wider than long, slightly emarginate at middle of base, flat, finely punctured.

Elytra 2.15× longer than pronotum and slightly wider than it, convex; sides widest slightly behind middle, striae well marked and finely punctured, interstriae flat, finely punctured.

Wings absent.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 133. (length 1.06 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.3–5.5 mm; width 2.06 mm.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the collector, Attila Podlussány, private collector of Curculionidae , Budapest.

Figures

FIGURE 66. Coptostethus attilai sp. n., holotype, female habitus. 67. Coptostethus kundratai sp. n., holotype, male habitus. 68. Craspedostethus ferrugineus sp. n., holotype, female habitus. 69. Craspedostethus hirticollis sp. n., holotype, male habitus. Not to scale