Dima pecoudi Fleutiaux 1943
Creators: name: Mertlik, Josef
name: Németh, Tamás
name: Kundrata, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Dima
Dima pecoudi

description: Dima pecoudi Fleutiaux, 1943
Figs 85–88, 150, 171, 206–207, 244.
Dima pecoudi Fleutiaux, 1943: 40; Cobos 1961: 109; Dajoz 1973: 105; Chassain 1984: 92; Schimmel 1996: 149; Mertlik & Dusanek 2006: 151; Cate 2007: 184; Schimmel & Platia 2008: 585; Platia 2010: 30.
Type depository. Holotype, ♂ (MHNP).
Type locality. Greece: Mt. Ossa.
Redetermined material. GREECE: Ossa Mts., Larisa, 800 m, V.1987, 1 ♂, B. Lassalle leg. (as a paratype of D. evritaniensis in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCGP) (Figs 87, 206).
New material. GREECE: Thessalien, Larissa, Ossageb., 1200 m, 9.–30. V.1996, 20 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, T. Lebenbauer leg. (PCME); Ossa Mts., Kokino Nero, 13. V.2005, 1 ex., J. Halada leg. (PCGP); Ossa Mts., 1200–1500 m, 26. IV.2004, 1 ex., C. Busi leg. (PCGP); Thessalien, Larissa, Ossageb., 1200 m, 9.–30. V.1996, 1 ♂, T. Lebenbauer leg. (PCVD); Ossa (Kissavos) Mts., Spilia env., 800 m, 10.–13. VI.2007, 1 ♂, J. Velc leg. (PCBZ); Thessalie, Ossa Óros Mts., Spilia env., 14.–17. VI.2010, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Jiří Plecháč leg. (PCJM); dtto, 2 ♂♂ (PCBZ); Thessalia, Ossa Oros Mts., NE slope W Stomio, 550 m, 30. V.2012, 7 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, fagetum, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); distr. Lárissa, Ossa Mts., 6.3 km NE of Spilia, 953 m (39°50'16.08"N, 22°41'49.62"E), beechwood, 16. VI.2012, 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 1 ♀, M. Samek leg. (PCMS); distr. Lárissa, Ossa Mts., 6 km NE of Spilia, 975 m (39°50'12.89"N, 22°41'48.04"E), beechwood, 1. VI.2014, 10 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 4 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 4 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); Greece SE, Greece SE, Mavrovouni Mts., 35 km N Volos, 12. V.2005, 1 ♀, M. Kadlecová leg. (PCPB); Thessalia, Mavrovouni Mts., 800 m, W of Sklithro, 14.–15. VI.2014, 1 ♀, fagetum, T. Sitek leg. (PCTS); Ossa Mts., N slopes (39°50'21.47''N, 22°42'34''E), ca. 820 m, 17.–18. V.2015, 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, David Král leg. (PCBZ); Larisa env., Ossa Mts., 6 km E Spilea, beech forest, singled at night, 1000 m, 14. V.2011, 5 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, leg. T. Németh (HNHM); dtto, 18 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán (PCAK); dtto, 9 ♂♂, 1 ♀, leg. A. Márkus (PCAM); dtto, 2 ♀♀ (PCBS); dtto, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (PCJM); Larisa env., Ossa Mts., 10 km W Stomio, beech forest, singled at night, 1000 m, 10. VI.2014, 5 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, Gy. Németh, B. Szelenczey & V. Szénási (PCRK); dtto, 16 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀(PCBS); dtto, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (PCRK); Larisa env., Ossa Mts., 5 km N Stomio, stream valley, sifted, 150 m, 14. V.2011, 1 ♂, leg. A. Kotán, A. Márkus & T. Németh (PCRK); Thessalia, Stomio, 18. VI.2011, 1 ♂, Pavel Štěpánek leg. (PCJM); Ossa Mts., N. slopes, ca. 820 m (39°50'21.47''N, 22°42'34''E), 17.–18. V.2015, 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, David Král leg. (PCBZ); prov. Makedonia, distr. Larissa, Mt. Ossa, 4 km S Stomio, mixed forest, 39°50'15.57"N; 22°42'50.62"E, 965 m, swept & singled, 23.–24. V.2015, 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, Gy. Németh, B. Szelenczey & V. Szénási (PCRK); prov. Makedonia, distr. Larissa, Ossa Mts., 6 km E Spilea, mixed forest, 39°50'0.20"N; 22°41'2.83"E, 1060 m, singled, 10. V.2013, 1 ♂, leg. A. Kotán, P. Nemes, Gy. Németh, T. Németh & V. Szénási (RKPC).
Diagnosis. Dima pecoudi is a large species (body length: 13.0– 15.7 mm), with typical very short, thin and decumbent body pubescence, clinging to the pronotal sides (Fig. 150), very dense pronotal punctation with matt intervals, and elytra matt, with small, dense, fine punctures, with intervals microreticulated (Figs 85–88, 171). Male genitalia is as in Figs 206–207. Dima pelikani sp. nov. shares with D. pecoudi the similar surface of elytra but differs in the semi-erect pubescence on the sides of pronotum (Fig. 151).
Distribution. Greece (Ossa Mts., Olympus Mts., Mavrovouni Mts.; Fig. 244).
Remark. Two female specimens in the collection of G. Platia (PCPG) bear labels " Greece, Col de Katara, 15.V.2000, G. Dubault leg.". The occurrence of this species near Katara Pass is very improbable and we suppose that these specimens were mislabelled.
description: Published as part of Mertlik, Josef, Németh, Tamás & Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4220 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4670787