Hypoganus inunctus
Creators: name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Hypoganus
Hypoganus inunctus

description: Hypoganus inunctus (Lacordaire, 1835)
(Figs. 5A–F; 7F; 8E; 9C–D)
Elater cinctus Paykull, 1800: 10.
Athous inunctus Lacordaire, 1835: 642 (replace name for Elater cinctus Paykull).
Diacanthus cinctus Germar 1843: 73.
Corymbites (Hypoganus) cinctus Kiesenwetter 1858: 299.
Corymbites cinctus Candèze 1863: 167.
Ludius incinctus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: 241.
Ludius (Hypoganus) cinctus Buysson 1894: 114.
Ludius (Hypoganus) cinctus var. akbesianus Pic, 1903:129.
Ludius (Hypoganus) cinctus var. semitestaceus Pic, 1905: 181.
Ludius cinctus Schwarz 1906: 223.
Hypoganus cinctus Reitter 1911: 219; Schenkling 1927: 402; Laurent 1965: 282; Leseigneur 1972: 302; Dolin 1978: 52; Dolin 1982: 254; Gurjeva 1989: 108; Tarnawski 1996: 614; Tarnawski 2001: 289; Schimmel & Tarnawski 2017: 293.
Hypoganus inunctus Cate et al. 2007: 117; Mertlik 2016: 67.
Material examined. 2 males, 2 females: 1 female, “Закарпатье, окр. Свалявы, сух. гн. граба, Компанцева Т., N 12, 25.4.90 ” [Ukraine, Zakarpattia Oblast, Svaliava City env., dry rot of hornbeam, 25 April 1990, T.V. Kompantseva leg.] (CPM); 1 female, “Бодзентинъ, Кѣлецкаго уѣзд., Якобсонъ, 25.V.95 ” [Poland, Kielce County, Bodzentyn Town, 25 May 1895, G.G. Jacobson leg.] (ZISP); 1 male, “Grm. b., Dohrn.” [North Germany, Dohrn leg.] (ZISP, JF); 1 male, “95, Tirol” [Austria, Tyrol, 1895] (ZISP, AS).
Diagnosis. Male body length 8.5–11.0 mm, width 2.5–3.0 mm; female body length up to 14.0 mm, width up to 4.0 mm (Gurjeva 1989; Mertlik 2016). Coloration variable, body brown to black, legs lighter, elytra brownish red to brownish black (Mertlik 2016, and Figs. 5A–F). Pronotum with distinct punctures, hind angle slightly divergent and narrowed, apex sub-acute, with a distinct carina. Scutellum widest basally, lateral margins nearly straight and parallel. Elytra with clear striae, each stria consists of a row of deep punctures, the intervals between the striae not very elevated, distinctly pubescent. Male genitalia as Figs. 7F, 8E, penis thin, apex robust and long, paramere with lateral margin slightly curved, much more concave distally, apex round, the hook sharp; female genitalia as Figs. 9C–D, ovipositor with very small styli, spines in central part of bursa copulatrix small.
Remarks. Panzer (1796) firstly described a species under the name Elater cinctus (currently Drapetes cinctus (Panzer), a synonym of Drapetes mordelloides (Host)), while Paykull (1800) described another species and reused the name Elater cinctus. The subsequent species Athous inunctus Lacordaire, 1835 is the same as Elater cinctus Paykull, 1800, thus the name Athous inunctus Lacordaire replaces Elater cinctus Paykull. Hypoganus inunctus (Lacordaire, 1835) is the valid name instead of Hypoganus cinctus (Paykull, 1800).
Distribution. A widely distributed species among Europe and also in Turkey (Cate et al. 2007; Pedroni & Platia 2010; Németh et al. 2014).
description: Published as part of Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2017, A new species of Hypoganus Kiesenwetter, 1858 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae) from China, with notes on the Palaearctic species of the genus, pp. 348-362 in Zootaxa 4324 (2) on page 355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/998296