Athous (Orthathous) astrabadensis Faust, 1877

Platia, Giuseppe & Ghahari, Hassan, 2016, An annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4137 (2), pp. 239-275 : 252-253

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4137.2.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6072477
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scientific name	Athous (Orthathous) astrabadensis Faust, 1877
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Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Astrabad = Gorgan) ( Faust 1877; Reitter 1905; Jakobson 1913; Schenkling 1925), Mazandaran (10 km S of Chalus) ( Cate et al. 2002), Iran (no locality cited) ( Cate et al. 2002; Platia 2013a).

New materials. Golestan (10 km S Gorgan; Nahar Khoran; Golestan National Park), Northern Khorasan (Kopetdag, Siaret) (Platia coll.), Golestan (11 km SE of Minudasht) (Krolik coll.).

General distribution. Endemic to Iran ( Cate 2007).

References

Cate, P. C., Platia, G. & Schimmel, R. (2002) New species and records of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Iran, with a checklist of known species. Folia Heyrovskyana, 10 (1), 25 - 68.

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

Faust, J. (1877) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Kafer des Europaischen und Asiatischen Russlands mit Einschluss der Kusten des Kaspischen Meeres (Fortsetzung). Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 12, 300 - 330.

Jakobson, G. G. (1913) Beetles of Russia and Western Europe. St. Petersburg, 1024 pp.

Platia, G. (2013 a) Click-beetles collected in Iran by the expeditions of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt with description of two new species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae). Vernate, 32, 391 - 402.

Reitter, E. (1905) Bestimmungs-Tabelle der palaearctischen, mit Athous verwandten Elateriden (Subtribus Athouina), mit einer Ubersicht der verwandten Coleopteren-Familien: Sternoxia und mit einem Bestimmungsschlussel der Gattungen der Elateriden.). Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brunn, 43, 3 - 122.

Schenkling, S. (1925) Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio, Junk, W. Pars, I., Junk, W. Berlin, 263 pp.