Dicronychus podlussanyi, 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 : 479-480

Dicronychus podlussanyi sp. n.

(Figs. 60, 123)

Material examined. Holotype, male: Turkey: “ TURKEY, 90 IV. 16. Nevsehir: Göreme, leg Podlussány A.” ( HNHM). 1 paratype, male: same data as holotype. (CPG).

Diagnosis. This species is close to D. obscuripennis (Pic, 1899) in having very similar shape of paramera of male genitalia, but it can be separated by the slenderer body covered with denser and yellow-fulvous pubescence and longer antennae.

Description. Male (Fig. 60). Entirely dark brown with antennae and legs (except for femura darker) yellowferruginous; covered with dense, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Frons flat, slightly impressed at anterior margin, this moderately thickened, subarcuate or substraigth at middle; punctures dense, deep, simple, approximately of same size, with very short and shiny intervals or contiguous.

Antennae exceeding by 2–2.5 antennomeres posterior angles of pronotum, feebly serrated from third antennomere on; second subcylindrical, 2× longer than wide, third-tenth subtriangular, third a little shorter than fourth, 1.7× longer than wide, fourth and following on average 2–2.5× longer than wide, last longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum as long as wide, widest at middle, strongly and regularly convex; sides strongly arcuate, nearly equally narrowing forwards and backwards from middle, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter short, truncate, slightly divergent; lateral margin very fine and obsolete after middle; puncturation dense and uniformly distributed on whole surface; punctures deep, simple, approximately of same size, with very narrow, shiny intervals or contiguous.

Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, slightly emarginate at middle base, flat at middle, finely punctured.

Elytra 2.6× longer and a little wider than pronotum, convex; oval, widest at middle; striae regularly marked and punctured; interstriae flat to subconvex with finer punctures.

Claws dentate.

Aedeagus as in Fig. 123 (length 1,0 6 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.7–6.1 mm, width 1.75–1.81 mm.

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