Dima vailatii 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 vailatii

description: Dima vailatii Schimmel & Platia, 2008
Figs 109–113, 158–160, 217–219, 244.
Dima vailatii Schimmel & Platia, 2008: 589. Dima riesei Platia, 2010: 29, syn. n.
Type depositories. Holotype of D. vailatii, ♂ (MCSB); 13 paratypes of D. vailatii, 7 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ (MRSN, PCGP, PCRS); holotype of D. riesei, ♂ (MCNG); 2 paratypes of D. riesei, ♂♂ (PCGP, PCSR).
Type locality. GREECE: Péla province, Panagitsa, Ag. Georgios, 950 m (D. vailatii); GREECE: Kajmakčalan (Voras–Skicenter), 1500–2000 m (D. riesei).
Redetermined material. GREECE: Macedonia, Kajmačkalan Mts., 5. VI.1995, 1 ♂, leg. Vladimír Skoupý (as D. hladilorum in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCJM); Maced. occ., distr Péla, Kajmačkalan, 1800–2200 m, 5. VI.1995, 1 ♂, leg. Dr. Fencl & Hosnedl (as D. hladilorum in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCJM).
New material. GREECE: Macedonia, Kajmakčalan Mts., 21. VI.2003, 1 ♂, V. Skoupý leg. (PCJB); Macedonia, Aghios Athanasios, Kaimaktsalan Mts., Mt. Voras, 1300 m, 16. VI.2010, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); Macedonia, Aghios Athanasios, Mt. Voras, Kaimaktsalan, 1300 m, 7.–9. VI.2012, 3 ♂♂, fagetum, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); Macedonia, Kaimaktsalan Mts., Mt. Voras, 1820 m, 8. VI.2012, 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, pinetum, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); distr. Péla, Kajmakčalan Mts., road from Kerasias, 1563–1573 m (40°53'54.42"N, 21°51'51.69"E), 10.VI.2012, beechwood, 48 ♂♂, 48 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (PCRK); 32 ♂♂, 28 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 19 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); dtto, 11 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 14 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, M. Samek leg. (PCMS); dtto, 5. VI.2015, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, Richard Škoda leg. (PCPB); distr. Péla, Kajmakčalan Mts., 1.5 km NW of Agios Georgios, beechwood, 1340 m (40°51'54.07"N, 21°46'58.81"E), 27. V.2014, 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); prov. Makedonia, distr. Péla, Kaimaktsalan Mts., 1550 m, beech forest, 40°53'59.11"N, 21°51'47.52"E, 1573 m, singled at night, 17. V.2013, 10 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, P. Nemes, Gy. Németh, T. Németh & V. Szénási (HNHM); dtto, 11 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ (PCRK); dtto, 28 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀ (PCAK).
Diagnosis. Dima vailatii is a medium-sized species (body length: 9.5–13.0 mm) with suboval body, pronotum with fine, dense and moderately deep punctures, intervals shiny, with pubescence on the pronotal sides short, decumbent along almost the whole length, with elytral pubescence dense, short, decumbent, with moderately shiny intervals, and with the scutellum slightly raised above the elytral plane (Figs 109–113, 158–160). Dima vailatii differs from all other species occuring in the surrounding mountain ranges (D. kozufensis sp. nov., D. lebenbaueri and D. florinensis) by the pubescence of pronotal sides, which is short, curved, decumbent and of the same length almost along the whole length; with distinctly longer hairs only at hind angles. Additionally, D. kozufensis sp. nov. and D. lebenbaueri differ from D. vailatii by the sparser pronotal punctation (Figs 138–140) and D. florinensis by sparsely pubescent elytra with fine setae (Figs 31–34). Male genitalia is as in Figs 217–219.
Intraspecific variability. There is a variability in body coloration within this species. Paler specimens were collected mainly on the southern slopes of Kajmakčalan in the forested gorges in the surroundings of Agios Georgios (950–1340 m), but they are known also from other parts. The darker specimens (Figs 111–112) were collected mostly in the beech forests on the southern slopes (1340 m) and in the eastern part of the mountain range (1563–1573 m). The highest known locality lies in a pine forest (1820 m), where the smallest specimens were collected.
Distribution. Greece (Voras Mts., Kajmakčalan; Fig. 244).
Remark. We did not find any morphological differences between D. vailatii and D. riesei (Figs 109, 113). Therefore, we herein synonymize Dima riesei Platia, 2010 under Dima vailatii Schimmel & Platia, 2008.
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 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4670787