Dima parnonensis Schimmel & Platia 2008
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 parnonensis

description: Dima parnonensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008
Figs 81–84, 149, 170, 204–205, 246.
Dima parnonensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008: 584; Platia 2013: 99.
Type depositories. Holotype, ♀ (PCJM); paratype, ♀ (PCRS).
Type locality. Greece: Peloponnese, Parnon Mts.
Redetermined material. Peloponnese [Peloponnesus], 40 km south-east of Tripoli, SW Ag. Petros, 1100 m (37°18'49''N, 22°31'10''E), 22. III.1997, 1 ♂, V. Assing leg. (as D. raineri in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCRS).
New material. GREECE: Argolida, O. Parnon, str. Kosmac–Polidroso, 1070 m, 29.V.2003 –13. VI.2004, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Giachino & Vailati leg., D. hladilorum, det. Platia 2010 (PCGP); dtto, 2 ♀♀ (MCNG); Peloponnese, Parnon Mts., 22.–30. VI.2005, 1 ♂, I. Marvan leg. (PCVD); Parnon Mts., Kastanitsa env., 1100–1300 m, 19. V.2007, 1 ♂, Karel Rébl leg. (PCJM); dtto, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Rudolf Kmeco leg. (PCTS); dtto, 1 ♂ (PCRK); Parnon Mts., Kastanitsa env., 1100–1300 m, 27.–28. V.2010, 1 ♀, Rudolf Kmeco leg. (PCJM); distr. Arkadía, Parnon Mts., Agios Petros env., pinewood, 1190 m (37°19'0.99"N, 22°31'53.66"E), 31. V.2013, 22 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 15 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 6 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. PCPB); Lakonia env., Parnon Mts., 3 km N Karies, 1100 m, oak–pine forest, singled at night from rocky ground, 21. V.2011, 4 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, A. Márkus & T. Németh (HNHM); dtto, 6 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ (PCRK); dtto, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (PCJM); Greece, Peloponnese, Mt. Parnon, Kastanitsa, 19. V.2007, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Mikyška leg. (PCAY); Peloponnese, distr. Lakonia, Parnon Mts., 3 km N Karies, oak-pine forest, 37°18'48.80"N; 22°31'8.95"E, 1100 m, singled at night from rocky ground, 12. V.2013, 9 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, P. Nemes, Gy. Németh, T. Németh & V. Szénási (PCRK).
Diagnosis. Dima parnonensis is 12.0– 14.5 mm long species with a shiny pronotum, moderately densely covered with coarse punctures, and shiny elytra, covered with sparse short pubescence (Figs 81–84, 170). It differs from the similar D. arndti by the more shiny body, pronotum widest after middle, with sides almost evenly rounded (pronotum widest at 2/3, with sides abruptly constricted before posterior angles in D. arndti; Figs 119, 149), and the apical lobe of paramera shorter, more robust, with the inner apical part of paramera moderately to distinctly curved (Figs 172–173, 204–205).
Intraspecific variability. The typical D. parnonensis are dark brown-blackish but some specimens are paler (Figs 81–84).
Distribution. Greece (Peloponnese: Parnon Mts.; Fig. 246).
Remarks. A specimen with light body coloration (Fig. 84) was determined and figured by Schimmel & Platia (2008) as D. raineri and used erroneously for the redescription of that species, which led to the description of D. pindosensis Schimmel & Platia, 2 0 0 8 based on the typical specimens of D. raineri (Schimmel & Platia 2008). A single male specimen of Dima sp. from Crete, which is similar to both D. arndti and D. parnonensis, is discussed above under D. arndti.
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 pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4670787