Phorocardius pakistanicus Platia & Ahmed, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Platia, Giuseppe
name: Ahmed, Zubair
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Phorocardius
Phorocardius pakistanicus

description: Phorocardius pakistanicus n. sp. (Figs. 18, 18a, 25, 25a, 62, 63, 64)   
 Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Thar, 2.VII.2013 (ZACP). 6 Paratypes (5 ♂♂, 1 ♀ ) - (4) same data as HT; (1) Lower Dir (Swat), VII.2011 (CPG; ZACP).   
  Diagnosis. Very similar to P. tibialis n. sp. but without dilated tibiae.    
 Description.   
 Male. Shiny; colour variable; head, base of elytra, around of scutellum and first two-three elytral striae, blackish, remaining part of pronotum, elytra, antennae and legs reddish -yellowish (HT and three paratypes) to entirely dark ferruginous (1 paratype) to only with pronotum ferruginous and head and elytra blackish (1 paratype); covered with dense yellow -golden pubescence.   
 Frons slightly impressed at the anterior margin, this substraight or subarcuate, moderately thickened and protruding above the clypeus; punctuation very dense with very sma ll intervals, punctures of the same size, deep, simple.   
 Antennae reaching the apices and exceeding for the half of the last article the posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from the third article on; second article subcylindrical, 1,7x longer than wide and 1,5x shorter than third; third -tenth subtriangular, gradually slenderer from twice longer than wide to 3x longer than wide, last subellipsoidal constricted before the apex.   
 Pronotum just longer than wide, widest behind the middle, convex, with a very narrow and shallow mid-longitudinal line on the basal slope; sides moderately arcuate, shortly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter short, truncate not divergent shortly carinate; lateral suture-like margins substraight, very fine and nearly complete; punctuation uniformly distributed, punctures fine, simple, approximately of the same size, some a little larger but very irregularly distributed can be present.   
 Scutellum heart-shaped, as long as wide, deeply longitudinally impressed, finely punctured.   
 Elytra 2,9-3x longer than pronotum and a little wider than it, convex; sides subparallel from base to the middle then gradually narrowing and more strongly tapering in the last third to the apices, these are subtruncate; striae well marked and deeply punctured; interstriae flat from base to the middle then convex to subcostiform in the last third.   
 Claws bifid before the apex.   
 Male genitalia as in the Figs. 18, 18a (length 1.37 mm).   
 Female. Completely blackish except for antennae and legs ferruginous; very similar to the male with antennae just a little shorter.   
 Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in the Figs. 25, 25a.   
 Size. Length 8.8- 10 mm; width 2.35-2.68 mm.   
 Etymology. The name is derived from the country where the species was collected.
description: Published as part of Platia, Giuseppe & Ahmed, Zubair, 2016, Contribution to the fauna of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan., pp. 3-28 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 16 on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12765875