Drasterius brahminus Candèze, 1859

Hoffmannova, Johana, Packova, Gabriela, Prosvirov, Alexander S., Akhter, Muhammad Atique & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5270 (2), pp. 281-305 : 294

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scientific name	Drasterius brahminus Candèze, 1859
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Drasterius brahminus Candèze, 1859: 426 .

For more information, including synonyms, see Cate (2007).

Distribution. China, “Himalaya”, India, Japan, Pakistan; Oriental Region ( Cate 2007, Schimmel 2007, Akhter et al. 2012a, Platia 2015 a, Platia & Ahmed 2016).

Literature. Cate (2007: 105): catalogue; Schimmel (2007: 225): distributional remark; Akhter et al. (2012a: 48): catalogue; Platia (2015a: 15): distributional record from Pakistan, figure of female pronotum; Platia & Ahmed (2016: 9): distributional record from Pakistan.

References

Akhter, M. A., Drumont, A., Rizvi, S. A. & Ahmed, Z. (2012 a) Contribution to the knowledge of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) with description of new species and new records from Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3223 (1), 40 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3223.1.3

Cate, P. C. (2007) Family Elateridae. In: L ˆ bl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Elateroidea Derodontoidea Bostrichoidea Lymexyloidea Cleroidea Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 89 - 209.

Platia, G. (2015 a) New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera). Arquivos Entomoloxicos, 13, 3 - 52.

Platia, G. & Ahmed, Z. (2016) Contribution to the fauna of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan. Arquivos Entomoloxicos, 16, 3 - 28.

Prosvirov, A. S. (2016) New and little-known species of the genus Lacon Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Afghanistan and adjacent countries. Zootaxa, 4168 (2), 279 - 296. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4168.2.3

Schimmel, R. (2007) New records on Elateridae, and description of a new species from Westghats in India (Insecta: Coleoptera). Genus, 18 (2), 221 - 238.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Habitus images of Agrypninae from Pakistan. A. Aeoloides grisescens (Germar, 1844) (female); B. Drasterius brahminus Candèze, 1859 (male); C. Heteroderes lenis Candèze, 1859 (female); D. Lanelater pakistanicus Platia, 2015 (male). Scale bars = 1.0 mm (B), 3.0 mm (A, C), 6.0 mm (D).