Drilus latithorax Pic 1902
Creators: name: Kobieluszova, Lucie
name: Kundrata, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Drilidae
Drilus
Drilus latithorax

description: Drilus latithorax Pic, 1902
(Figs 4, 15, 24, 36)
Drilus latithorax Pic, 1902: 24.
Type material. Holotype, male, "Asie - Min., Anatolie, C.D. 1888, Type [handwritten; circle label], Type [handwritten], Type [printed red label], latithorax Pic, Museum Paris, Prét n° 7697, 25.03.1992, 26.09.1992 [printed yellow label]" (MHNP).
Type locality. Turkey, "Anatolie: Smyrne" [= Izmir].
Diagnosis. Drilus latithorax is easily recognizable by the brown body coloration, prolonged clypeal part and serrate antennae (Figs 4, 24).
Description. Male (holotype). Body 3.4 times longer than width at humeri, reddish brown to dark brown, pronotum lighter, scape, pedicel and scutellum yellowish brown; body covered with yellow pubescence (Fig. 4). Head including eyes slightly wider than anterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 15), lateral margins above antennal sockets slightly elevated, elongated clypeus forming narrowed nasal part, with deep depression medially between antennal sockets; anterior clypeal edge notched, emarginated at middle; with large, shallow puncturation and sparse, semierect pubescence. Eyes medium-sized, their frontal distance 1.7 times eye diameter. Mandibles curved, incisor margin with conspicuous tooth in middle part. Labrum transverse, frontal margin slightly rounded; maxillary palpi slender, ultimate palpomere apically narrowed and flattened, obliquely cut. Antennae serrate (Fig. 24). Pronotum transverse, slightly convex, widest at middle, 1.5 times wider than length at midline. Anterior margin with small emargination medially, lateral margins convex, widened, slightly elevated posteriorly; posterior margin bisinuate, slightly emarginated at middle. Anterior angles inconspicuous; posterior angles obtuse (Fig. 15); surface of disc covered with large distinct punctures, with sparse semierect setae. Scutellum flat, elongate, gradually narrowed apically, sparsely punctured; apex rounded. Prosternum transverse, transversely wrinkled, frontal margin almost straight, prosternal process short, widely rounded, gradually declivitous. Mesoventrite vshaped, medially grooved. Elytra relatively long, subparallel-sided, wrinkled, sparsely punctured, covered with sparse semierect pubescence, denser at outer margins and apical half. Legs slender, slightly compressed, with sparse, long, semierect setae, tarsomeres 1–4 gradually shortened, tarsomere 4 shortest, apical tarsomere longest, slender, slightly longer than combined lengths of tarsomeres 3 and 4. Aedeagus with slender, considerably curved phallus; paramera long, with apical parts membranous; phallobase robust, u-shaped (Fig. 36). Female and immature stages are unknown.
Measurements. BL 6.2 mm, EL 4.9 mm, WHe 1.3 mm, WHum 1.8 mm, PL 1.0 mm, PW 1.5 mm, Edist 0.7 mm, Ediam 0.4 mm.
Distribution. Western Turkey (Izmir Province; Fig. 55).
description: Published as part of Kobieluszova, Lucie & Kundrata, Robin, 2015, Taxonomic review of Drilus Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) from Asia Minor, with descriptions of seven new species and comments on the female antennal morphology in Drilini in Zootaxa 4012 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/232879