Cardiophorus doggerioides, Platia & Ahmed, 2016

Platia, Giuseppe & Ahmed, Zubair, 2016, Contribution to the fauna of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 16, pp. 3-28 : 13-14

Cardiophorus doggerioides n. sp. ( Figs. 14, 14a , 55 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Chakri , Islamabad , 29.VI.201 3 ( CPG). 1 Paratype ♂ - Northwest Frontier, Barseen, 900 m, 10.VII.1998, G. Csorba & L. Ronkay leg. ( HNHM).

Diagnosis. A species very allied to C. doggeri Vats & Chauhan, 1991 , it is separated by the punctuation of pronotum not regularly double and by the shape of male genitalia.

Description.

Male. Shiny; entirely blackish with ferruginous shadings on base of elytra sometimes extended to the disk of pronotum and elytral suture; antennae and legs ferruginous; cover ed with very dense, declined, yellowish pubescence.

Frons slightly impressed before the anterior margin, this moderately thickened and substraight in the middle, punctuation very fine, punctures simple, very small with intervals smooth, and on average larger than their diameters.

Antennae reaching the apices of the posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from the third article on; second article subcylindrical, twice longer than wide, 1,5x shorter than fourth; fourth-tenth conical, third a little longer than following, fourth-tenth less twice longer than wide, last subellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1,1x wider than long, widest at the middle, very convex; sides very arcuate, slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter, short, truncate, not divergent, not carinate; lateral suture-like margin obsolete after the middle; punctuation very fine and regularly distributed; punctures extremely small, approximately of the same size, only some of a little larger size very irregularly mixed, intervals very shiny and on average larger than their diameters. Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, impressed in the middle, finely punctured and emarginate at the middle on the base.

Elytra 2,5x longer than pronotum and as wide as it, convex, ovaliform, widest at mid dle, striae well marked superficially punctured, interstriae subconvex with very fine punctuation.

Claws simple.

Male genitalia as in the Figs. 14, 14a (length 1.07 mm).

Female. Unknown.

Size. Length 6.2-6.3 mm; width 1.93-1.95 mm.

Etymology. The name is derived from the similarity of the species with C. doggeri Vats & Chauhan, 1991 .

Figures

Figs. 13-14.- Male genitalia in dorsal view. 13, 13a.- Nipponoelater brancuccii (Schimmel, 1996). 14, 14a.- Cardiophorus doggerioides n. sp.

Figs. 54-65.- Habitus in total or partial view. 63 54.- Cardiophorus tharensis n. sp. 55.- Cardiophorus doggerioides n. sp. 56.- Cardiophorus pakistanicus Platia, 2015 (♀). 57.- Dicronychus islamabadensis n. sp. 58.- Dicronychus mithiensis n. sp. 59.- Dicronychus stolatoides n. sp. 60.- Dicronychus oxypterus (Candèze, 1860). 61.- Dicronychus stolatus (Erichson, 1840) (♀). 62.- Phorocardius pakistanicus n. sp. (♂). 63-64.- Phorocardius pakistanicus n. sp. (♀♀). 65.- Phorocardius tibialis n. sp. (♂).