Pseudocistela znojkoi (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1959)

Novák, Vladimír, 2013, Review of the West Palaearctic Pseudocistela with description of P. hajeki sp. nov. from Iran (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1), pp. 293-301 : 300

Pseudocistela znojkoi (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1959)

( Figs 4 , 17–18)

Gonodera znojkoi Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1959: 60

Pseudocistela znojkoi: NOVÁK & PETTERSSON (2008: 39) (new combination)

Type locality. Azerbaijan, Talysh, Alekseevka.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: 1 J (by monotypy): ‘Талыш / Алексеевка / АЗРб. 21. 5.56’ [handwritten, white label] // ‘Pseudoc. / Znojkoi’ [handwritten, red label] ( MKYA). The type specimen is glued on white label; nearly complete, only right ultimate protarsomere missing.

Diagnosis. Body black, elytra ochre yellow. Male: habitus as in Fig. 4 ; head and pronotum as in Fig. 17; antennae as in Fig. 18. HL 1.61 mm; HW 1.54 mm; OI 27.65; PL 1.56 mm; PW 2.60 mm; PI 60.24; EL 7.38 mm; EW 3.81 mm; BL 10.55 mm; BL/EW 2.77; HW/PW 0.59; PW/EW 0.68; LA 7.41 mm; LA/BL 0.70. RLA (1–11): 1.23: 0.61: 1.00: 2.73: 2.62: 2.58: 2.68: 2.81: 2.82: 2.94: 3.33. RLA/W (1–11): 1.69: 1.10: 1.52: 2.30: 2.26: 2.42: 2.29: 2.36: 2.77: 3.40: 6.61.

Distribution. Azerbaijan.

Figures

Figs 1–8. 1–4 – habitus of male: 1 – Pseudocistela ceramboides (Linnaeus, 1758); 2 – P. ceramboides serrata (Chevrolat, 1844) syn. nov.; 3 – P. hajeki sp. nov. 4 – P. znojkoi (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1959). 5–8 – details of head (5, 7) and antenna (6, 8): 5–6 – P. ceramboides; 7–8 – P. c. serrata.