Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats &Kashyap, 1992

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 : 284

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7864811
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scientific name	Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats &Kashyap, 1992
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Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats & Kashyap, 1992b: 102 .

Agrypnus argentosquamosus: Platia, 2015a: 10 View Cited Treatment [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling not in prevailing usage].

Distribution. India, Pakistan ( Cate 2007, Platia 2015a).

Literature. Platia (2015a: 10): first record from Pakistan, figures of habitus, posterior angle of pronotum, antenna, and male and female genitalia [as A. argentosquamosus ; sic!]; Platia (2018a: 171): comparison with another species [as A. argentosquamosus ; sic!]; Mangi et al. (2020a: 2091): remark [as A. argentosquamosus ; sic!].

References

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.

Mangi, S., Panhwar, W. A. & Shaikh, A. M. (2020 a) New species of genus Dipropus Germar, 1839 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Elaterinae) from Sindh, Pakistan. Pure and Applied Biology, 9 (3), 2088 - 2096. https: // doi. org / 10.19045 / bspab. 2020.90223

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. (2018 a) New species and new records of click beetles from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Elateridae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S. E. A.), 62, 171 - 176.

Vats, L. K. & Kashyap, S. L. (1992 b) Forty-eight species of Agrypnus Eschscholtz including forty new additions from North-West India (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of Entomological Research, 16 (2), 87 - 154.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus images of Agrypninae from Pakistan. A. Adelocera sabatinellii Platia, 2015 (male); B. Agrypnus argentosquamus Vats & Kashyap, 1992 (male); C. Compsolacon triticumunis (Vats & Kashyap, 1992) (female); D. Lacon mekrani (Candèze, 1889) (female). Scale bars = 2.0 mm (A), 3.0 mm (B, C, D).