Dicronychus povolnyi Németh & Platia, 2014, sp. n.
Creators: name: Németh, T.
name: Platia, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Dicronychus
Dicronychus povolnyi

description: Dicronychus povolnyi sp. n.
(Figs. 61–62, 124–127)
Material examined. Holotype, female: Afghanistan: “O. Afghanistan, Prov. Nengrahar D. Povolný et coll. (114) Jalalabad 3. 5. 1967 580” (HNHM). 5 paratypes, 1 male and 4 females: “O. Afghanistan, Prov. Nengrahar lgt. D. Povolný Jalalabad I.–III. 1965 ” (1 male, HNHM); “NO. Afghan. 1953 J. Klapperich Nuristan, Kamu, Bashgultal, 1500 m 24.IV. “ (1 female, HNHM, 2 females, CPG); same but “ 26.IV. ” Cardiophorus (Platynychus) sp. Gurjeva det. 1971 (1 female, HNHM).
Diagnosis. This species is very similar to Cardiophorus hauseri Schwarz, 1900, it can be separated by the claws being dilated basally and by the genitalia.
Description. Female (Fig. 61). Colour variable; holotype and two paratypes with head and pronotum brownish, darker than scutellum and elytra yellow-ferruginous with blackish undefined shadings, other three paratypes with darker colours, elytra nearly entirely blackish or with reddish base; antennae and legs yellowish; covered with very dense, fine, yellowish pubescence.
Frons flat or moderately convex, anterior margin moderately thickened and regularly curved; punctures very dense, nearly contiguous, approximately of same diameters.
Antennae not reaching posterior angles, very slightly serrated from third antennomera on; second subconical, 3× longer than wide, fourth–tenth subtriangular, on average more 3× longer than wide, last as long as penultimate, subellipsoidal.
Pronotum slightly wider than long, widest before anterior third, strongly convex, abruptly sloping at sides, nearly verically at base; sides arcuate, from just behind anterior third gradually narrowing forwards, less gradually converging backwards, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, latter short, truncate, slightly divergent, shortly carinate; lateral margin well apparent, obsolete only slightly before anterior margin; puncturation double, very fine punctures regularly mixed with larger, deep and simple ones (on average 3–4 smaller punctures falling to one larger).
Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, emarginate at middle of base, moderately impressed at middle, very finely punctured.
Elytra 2.5× longer and slightly wider than pronotum at middle, convex, widest at middle; striae deeply punctured; interstriae subconvex, very finely punctured.
Claws dentate.
Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 124, asymmetrical piece with a circular base as in Fig. 125, furca as in Fig. 126.
Male (Fig. 62). Very similar to female, a little smaller with longer antennae nearly reaching apicies of posterior angles of pronotum.
Aedeagus as in Fig. 127 (length 0.92 mm).
Size. Length 5.6–6.6 mm; width 1.68–2.12 mm.
Etymology. This species is dedicated to Czech lepidopterist Dalibor Povolný, the collector of the holotype.
description: Published as part of Németh, T. & Platia, G., 2014, On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) *, pp. 451-490 in Zootaxa 3841 (4) on pages 480-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/229391