On Some Palaearctic Click Beetles Deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)*

Zootaxa 3841 (4): 451–490 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A0742D14-7A39-485E-B665-5C3A7F194D5E On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)*

T. NÉMETH1 & G. PLATIA2 1Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: [email protected] 2Via Molino Vecchio, 23/a, 47043 Gatteo (FC), Italy. E-mail: [email protected]

Table of contents

Introduction ...... 403 Material and methods ...... 403 Tribe OOPHORINI Gistel, 1848 ...... 403 Aeoloides atricapillus (Germar, 1824) ...... 403 Drasterius sulcatulus Candèze, 1859 ...... 404 Heteroderes gallagheri Platia et Schimmel, 1997 ...... 404 Tribe AMPEDINI Gistel, 1856 ...... 406 Ampedus nigrinus (Herbst, 1784) ...... 406 Haterumelater fulvago (Marseul, 1868) ...... 406 Tribe DENDROMETRINI Gistel, 1848 ...... 406 Hemicrepidius rahmei sp. n...... 406 Limonius poneli Leseigneur et Mertlik, 2007 ...... 407 Roznerathous gen. n...... 407 Roznerathous hellenicus sp. n...... 407 Cidnopus macedonicus Cate et Platia, 1989 ...... 408 Cidnopus parallelus (Motschulsky, 1860) ...... 408 Athous (Haplathous) szalokii sp. n...... 408 Pseudocrepidophorus filicollis (Reitter, 1890) ...... 409 Tribe SYNAPTINI Gistel, 1856 ...... 409 Glyphonyx occidentalis sp. n...... 409 Peripontius orchymonti Platia, 2008 ...... 410 Tribe PROSTERNINI Gistel, 1856 ...... 410 Liotrichus affinis (Paykull, 1800) ...... 410 Tribe PHYSORHININI Candèze, 1859 ...... 410 Astanchus ussuriensis (Gurjeva, 1975) ...... 410 Tribe POMACHILINI Candèze, 1859 ...... 411 Idotarmonides gracilis sp. n...... 411 Isidus moreli Mulsant et Rey, 1874...... 411 Tribe HYPNOIDINI (Schwarz, 1906)...... 411 Hypnoidus riparius (Fabricius, 1792) ...... 411 Tribe AGRIOTINI Laporte, 1840 ...... 413 Agriotes balikesirensis sp. n...... 413 Agriotes barkulensis Jagemann, 1942 ...... 413 Agriotes roznerorum sp. n...... 413 Agriotes sakaryaensis sp. n...... 414 Agriotes ustulatus (Schaller, 1783) ...... 415 Tribe NEGASTRIINI Nakane et Kishii, 1956 ...... 415 Cardiohypnus mirabilis (Candèze, 1860) ...... 415 Oedostethus pektusanicus sp. n...... 415 Zorochros flavipes (Aubé, 1850)...... 416 Zorochros stibicki Leseigneur, 1970 ...... 416 Tribe CARDIOPHORINI Candčze, 1859 ...... 416 Cardiophorus anatolicus sp. n...... 416 Cardiophorus aranyos sp. n...... 417

Accepted by S. Wells: 25 Jun. 2014; published: 29 Jul. 2014 451 Cardiophorus burkus sp. n...... 417 Cardiophorus dicronychoides sp. n...... 419 Cardiophorus impressiventris Schwarz, 1900...... 420 Cardiophorus frequens Platia et Gudenzi, 2002 ...... 420 Cardiophorus hayekae Platia et Gudenzi, 2002 ...... 420 Cardiophorus nigroaeneus Dolin et Protzenko, 1965...... 420 Cardiophorus niponicus Lewis, 1894 ...... 420 Cardiophorus podlussanyi sp. n...... 420 Cardiophorus pseudofebriens Buysson, 1912...... 421 Cardiophorus ruficruris Brullé, 1832 ...... 421 Cardiophorus tenuis sp. n...... 421 Dicronychus berrai Platia et Gudenzi, 2003 ...... 422 Dicronychus decoroides sp. n...... 422 Dicronychus diluvii sp. n...... 423 Dicronychus equisetioides Lohse, 1976 ...... 424 Dicronychus fabiani sp. n...... 424 Dicronychus gurjevae sp. n...... 424 Dicronychus ilniczkyi sp. n...... 425 Dicronychus intermedius Platia et Gudenzi, 2003 ...... 427 Dicronychus kandaharensis sp. n...... 427 Dicronychus karolyvigi sp. n...... 428 Dicronychus luciae Laibner, 1985 ...... 429 Dicronychus marginalis (Candèze, 1860) (comb. n.) ...... 429 Dicronychus oxypterus (Candèze, 1860) (comb. n.) ...... 429 Dicronychus podlussanyi sp. n...... 429 Dicronychus povolnyi sp. n...... 430 Dicronychus quadrimaculatus sp. n...... 431 Coptostethus buci sp. n...... 431 Coptostethus attilai sp. n...... 432 Coptostethus kundratai sp. n...... 432 Craspedostethus dilutus (Erichson, 1840) ...... 433 Craspedostethus ferrugineus sp. n...... 433 Craspedostethus hirticollis sp. n...... 434 Craspedostethus jucundus Platia, 2010 ...... 439 Tribe MELANOTINI (Candeze, 1859) ...... 439 Melanotus turkestanicus Schwarz, 1892...... 439 Acknowledgements ...... 439 References ...... 439

Abstract

One new genus (Roznerathous gen. n.) and 31 new species of Elateridae are described: Athous szalokii sp. n. (Georgia), Agriotes balikesirensis sp. n. (Turkey), Agriotes rozneri sp. n. (Syria), Agriotes sakaryaensis sp. n. (Turkey), Cardiopho- rus anatolicus sp. n. (Turkey), Cardiophorus aranyos sp. n. (Afghanistan), Cardiophorus burkus sp. n. (Afghanistan), Cardiophorus dicronychoides sp. n. (Afghanistan), Cardiophorus podlussanyi sp. n. (Turkey), Cardiophorus tenuis sp. n. (Armenia), Coptostethus attilai sp. n. (Spain: Canary Isl.), Coptostethus buci sp. n. (Spain: Canary Isl.), Coptostethus kundratai sp. n. (Spain: Canary Isl.), Craspedostethus ferrugineus sp. n. (Iran), Craspedostethus hirticollis sp. n. (Af- ghanistan), Dicronychus decoroides sp.n. (Iran), Dicronychus diluvii sp. n. (Turkey), Dicronychus fabiani sp. n. (Iran), Dicronychus gurjevae sp. n. (Afghanistan), Dicronychus ilniczkyi sp. n. (Oman), Dicronychus kandaharensis sp. n. (Af- ghanistan), Dicronychus karolyvigi sp. n. (Iran), Dicronychus podlussanyi sp. n. (Turkey), Dicronychus povolnyi sp. n. (Afghanistan), Dicronychus quadrimaculatus sp. n. (Afghanistan), Glyphonyx occidentalis sp. n. (Afghanistan), Harte- nius marocanus sp. n. (Morocco), Hemicrepidius rahmei (Iran) sp. n., Idotarmonides gracilis sp. n. (Turkey), Roznerat- hous hellenicus sp. n. (Greece), Oedostethus pektusanicus sp. n. (North Korea). Dicronychus marginalis comb. n. and Dicronychus oxypterus comb. n. New distributional data for species of the genera Aeoloides, Agriotes, Ampedus, Cardio- hypnus, Cardiophorus, Cidnopus, Craspedostethus, Dicronychus, Drasterius, Haterumelater, Heteroderes, Hypnoidus, Isidus, Limonius, Liotrichus, Melanotus, Pseudocrepidophorus and Zorochros are given. The females of Astanchus ussuriensis (Gurjeva, 1975); Cidnopus macedonicus Cate et Platia, 1989; Peripontius orchymonti Platia, 2008 and the male of Agriotes barkulensis Jagemann, 1942 were unknown at the time of their description, are figured. With 137 figures.

Key words: Coleoptera, Elateridae, new species, new records, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Palaearctic region

Material examined. 1 specimen, female: Jordan: “O. Jordan, Wadi Schaib, + 0 m, 23.VI.1958, J. Klapperich” Paracardiophorus sp., det. Gurjeva (HNHM). Distribution. A: IS (Platia 2010). New to Jordan.

Tribus MELANOTINI (Candeze, 1859)

Melanotus turkestanicus Schwarz, 1892

Material examined. 2 specimens, males: Tadzhikistan: „Tadzhikistan, Tabakchi Range, 13.IV.2006, D. Dubrovsky“ (HNHM). Distribution. A: KI (Cate 2007). New to Tadzhikistan.

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to museum curators and private collectors for making available the material on which the present paper is based. We would like to thank Josef Mertlik (Opatovice nad Labem, Czech Republic) for providing us data from his collection. Special thanks are due to Ottó Merkl (HNHM) for the text review.

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