Zorochros (Zorochros) coreanus Han and Park, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Han, Taeman
name: Park, In Gyun
name: Park, Haechul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Zorochros
Zorochros coreanus

description: Zorochros (Zorochros) coreanus Han and Park sp. nov.
(Fig. 1 A; 2A, E; 3A, E; 4A, B)
Zorochros truncates Han 2000: Cate 2007: 194, nom. emendation.
Type materials. Holotype male, River-sides of Hantan, Jeongok-myeon, Yeoncheon-gun, GG, Korea, 22.VI.1998, leg. Taeman Han and Taehwa Kang. Paratypes: 4 males, 2 females, ditto; 1 male, Dodam-ri, Danyang-gun, CB, Korea, 18.VIII.1984, leg. K. S. Jang; 2 males, 2 females, Musimcheon, Chungju-si, CB, Korea, 11.VI.1998, leg. H. S. Lee. The type series are stored at NAAS.
Description. Body 2.5 mm long and 1.4 mm wide, elliptic. Color black to black-brown, opaque, but basal three antennomeres and legs dusky red-brown; other antennomeres and femur dark brown (Fig. 1 A). Punctures dense, fine. Vestiture whitish yellow, distinctly erect or recumbent. Head flat between eyes; frontal carina complete, rounded, bifurcate at base; frontal groove narrowed mesally. Mandibles bidentate. Labrum semicircular, 2.1 times as wide as long. Maxillary palpi hatchet shaped; fourth segment subquadrate, 1.6 times as long as wide. Antennae slender: 11th antennomere narrowly elliptic, reaching base of pronotal hind angle; first antennomere large, swelling; second cylindrical, 2.0 times as long as wide, 1.2 times longer than third; third cylindrical; fourth to tenth triangular, feebly serrate, 1.6 times longer than third (Fig. 2 A). Pronotum convex, 1.3 times as wide as long, broadest at middle; anterior margin slightly prolonged forwards at midline; lateral margins strongly arched at middle, narrowed towards head, weakly sinuate at base of hind angles (Fig. 3 A); disc with large granules forming triangular area on anterior longitudinal part (Fig. 3 E). Prosternum with anterior margin truncated; posterior process bent inwardly in lateral view, Scutellum flat, as long as wide (Fig. 2 E). Metacoxal plate flat, distinctly expanded in middle of posterior margin. Elytra elongate, disc flat, parallel sided in basal two thirds; humeral mucro indistinct. Abdomen with seventh sternite semicircular, 2.5 times wider than long. Aedeagus cylindrical. Median lobe wedge shaped, with ridged median carina, 1.33 times longer than telomeres. Parameres with 3 major setae on anterior lateral margin; basimeres feebly arcuate (Fig. 4 A, B).
Female similar to male, but antennae only reaching before the base of pronotal hind angles.
Distribution. Korea.
Etymology. The species was named Z. coreanus by the type locality.
Notes. The new species is very similar to Z. mesasiaticus Dolin 1995 from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia (Fig. 1 B; 2B, F; 3B, F; 4C), but distinguishable by the following characteristics: second antennomere longer (Fig. 2 A; Table 1), scutellum flat in dorsal and pronotal surface with narrower triangular area having large granules (Fig. 3 A, E). Regarding male genitalia, the apex of the median lobe beyond the parameres is concave, and more pointed; the parameres are rather stout with three thin setae (Fig. 4 A, B). Z. mesasiaticus possesses relatively large and strong male genitalia, in which the apex of the median lobe is not concave inwardly and more blunt; the parameres are more sharply pointed at apex with three thinker setae, of which second is longest (Fig. 4 C). This new species was collected in sand and gravel beside large and small streams.
Species Z. (Z.) coreanus sp. nov. Z. (Z.) mesasiaticus Dolin Z. (Z.) mansusanensis Z. (Z.) gurjevae Dolin Ratios (n=5) (n=3) sp. nov. (n=2) (n=2)
description: Published as part of Han, Taeman, Park, In Gyun & Park, Haechul, 2015, Two new species of the genus Zorochros (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Negastriinae) from Korea, pp. 261-269 in Zootaxa 3904 (2) on pages 263-264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/235224