On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)*

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), Cardiophorus 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. (Afghanistan), 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. (Afghanistan), 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), Hartenius marocanus sp. n. (Morocco), Hemicrepidius rahmei (Iran) sp. n., Idotarmonides gracilis sp. n. (Turkey), Roznerathous 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, Cardiohypnus, 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.

Molecular and morphological evidence for new genera in the click‐beetle subfamily Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

“…All available illustrations of Coptostethus species were examined (Cobos , , ; Németh & Platia ; Platia , ; Platia & Kakiopoulos ) to identify variability in diagnostic characters in the bursa copulatrix sclerites. The following species had proximal sclerites moderate to broad (Figs 21,24), nearly symmetrical with a median groove and narrow (petiolate) base; distal sclerites fused and weakly sclerotized, and base of spermathecal gland duct surrounded by sclerotized ring: Coptostethus buci Németh & Platia, ; C. salvatoi Platia in Platia & Kakiopoulos, ; C. oromii (Cobos, ); C. machadoi (Cobos, ); C. vittatus (Lindberg, 1953); C. crassiusculus Wollaston, 1864; C. vestitus Lindberg, 1953; C. minutus Lindberg, 1953; C. canariensis Wollaston, 1858; C. hayeki (Cobos, ); C. obtusus Wollaston, 1864: 213; C. palmensis (Cobos, ); C. mateui (Cobos, ); C. obscurus Wollaston, 1864. The following species differed in that the distal sclerites did not have a petiole‐like base: C. globulicollis Wollaston, 1862; C. brunneipennis Wollaston, 1863; C. mendizabili (Cobos, ); C. arozarenai (Cobos, ), distal sclerites absent; C. fernandezi (Cobos, ); C. gomerensis (Cobos, ).…”

“…nov.* (from Cardiophorus alepensis Pic, : 10); Coptostethus arozarenai (Cobos, 1969) comb. nov. ; C. attilai Németh & Platia, ; Coptostethus auarita (Liberto and Wurst, 1999) comb. nov. ; C. bonitaensis Platia, 2015; Coptostethus brancuccii (Platia & Schimmel, ) comb.…”

“…nov.* (from Dicronychus brancuccii Platia & Schimmel, : 309); C. brunneipennis Wollaston, 1863; Coptostethus buettikeri (Platia & Schimmel, ) comb. nov.* (from Dicronychus buettikeri Platia & Schimmel, : 310); C. buci Németh & Platia, ; Coptostethus cabrerai (Cobos, ) comb. nov. ; C. canariensis Wollaston, 1858; Coptostethus cobosi Douglas and Kundrata, 2018 nom.…”

“…nov. ; Coptostethus hierrensis (Franz, 1980) comb. nov. ; Coptostethus ilniczkyi (Németh & Platia, ) comb. nov.* (from Dicronychus ilniczkyi Németh & Platia, : 475); Coptostethus inflatus (Cobos, ) comb.…”

Click beetles from the Talassemtane National Park, Morocco, with descrip tion of a new species of Elathous and with new distributional data (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

“…Th e specimens preserved in alcohol were received by the authors, and during the process of identifi cation, we found one species, Cardiophorus rufi collis (Linnaeus, 1758), as new to Morocco and North Africa, and one belonging to the genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 as new for science. According to the Palaearctic catalogue (Cate 2007) and subsequent contributions (Platia 2008a, b, 2011, 2013, 2014, Németh & Platia 2014) about 80 species of Elateridae are known from Morocco -the subfamily Cebrioninae with 39 species (Cate 2007) is not included.…”