Antrosedes longicollis , Pretner 1970
Creators: name: Čeplík, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Antrosedes
Antrosedes longicollis

description: Antrosedes longicollis Pretner, 1970
(Figs 13–27)
Antrosedes longicollis Pretner, 1970: 155. Type locality: Pećina Kruščica, Ilidža, Kruščićka planina, Bosna.
Antrosedes longicollis Pretner: Perreau, 2000: 205; Perreau, 2015: 214; Hlaváč, Perreau & Čeplík, 2017: 105; Polak & Mulaomerović, 2021: 546.
Material studied: Paratypes, 2♁♁, 2♀♀ (red): Pećina Kruščica, Ilidža, 27.VII.1968, Kruščićka planina, Bosna Pretner. (PMSL).
Redescription. Body yellowish-brown, BL: 3.87–3.93 mm, L: 2.99–3.00 mm in males and BL: 3.96–4.02 mm, L: 3.07–3.13 mm in females.
Head (Fig. 13) longer than (HL1) or about as long as (HL 2 male, HL 1 female) the pronotum or slightly shorter (HL 2 female), slightly narrower than pronotum, HW/PW: 0.77–0.88. Head longer than wide, HL1/HW: 1.36–1.60, HL2/HW: 1.13–1.33. Males antennomeres length (mm): (1) 0.14, (2) 0.28, (3) 0.25, (4) 0.25, (5) 0.30, (6) 0.28, (7) 0.35–0.39, (8) 0.17, (9) 0.39, (10) 0.33–0.36 and (11) 0.39–0.42. AL males: 3.16–3.20 mm. Male antennomere relative length/relative maximum width ratios: (1) 2, (2) 5, (3) 4.5, (4) 5, (5) 6.3, (6) 5.6, (7) 3.7, (8) 3, (9) 4.5, (10) 3.5 and (11) 4.5. Females antennomeres length (mm): (1) 0.14, (2) 0.30, (3) 0.22, (4) 0.22, (5) 0.28, (6) 0.22–0.25, (7) 0.30–0.32, (8) 0.14, (9) 0.28–0.29, (10) 0.28 and (11) 0.30. AL females: 2.71 mm. Female antennomere relative length/relative maximum width ratios: (1) 2, (2) 4.9, (3) 4, (4) 4.7, (5) 5.4, (6) 4.7, (7) 3.7, (8) 3, (9) 3.5, (10) 2.8 and (11) 3.3.
Pronotum (Fig. 22) approximately as long as wide in males, PL/PW: 1.00–1.02 and slightly longer than wide in females, PL/PW: 1.06.
Elytra (Fig. 18) elongate, EL/EW: 1.88–1.94 in males, 1.60–1.62 in females. The length of the basal apophysis of the metanotum (alacrista) (Figs 18, 19, 21, 26) is approximately 13–14% of elytral length.
Spines along the lateral outer margin of protibia reaching approximately apical half of protibial length (Fig. 17). Male protarsi slender, slightly dilated (Fig. 17) and as long as the pronotum, PRTL/PL: 1.
Aedeagus 0.67–0.72 mm long. Inner sac of median lobe with developed chitinized structures, as is illustrated (Figs 14, 15). Female genitalia as in illustrations (Figs 24, 25, 27).
Biology: Subterranean species, so far known exclusively from the type locality.
Distribution: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vitez, Kruščica pećina (Fig. 28).
This species was described from “Pećina Kruščica, Ilidža, Kruščićka planina, Bosna” (Pretner, 1970) and subsequently recorded from: Bosnie-Herzégovine: pećina Kruščica pres de Vitez, sur le Kruščica planina (Prerreau, 2000); BH (Kruščica planina) (Perreau, 2015); BiH (Kruščica planina) (Hlaváč, Perreau & Čeplík, 2017); Kruščica pećina, Kruščica pl., Travnik (BiH) (Polak & Mulaomerović, 2021).
description: Published as part of Čeplík, Dávid, 2023, Redescription of the genus Antrosedes Reitter, 1912 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini), pp. 523-536 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on pages 526-534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7609484