Dima neumanni Platia 2013
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 neumanni

description: Dima neumanni Platia, 2013
Figs 67–74, 146, 199–201, 233, 246.
Dima neumanni Platia, 2013: 98.
Type depository. Holotype, ♂ (NME).
Type locality. Greece: Peloponnese, Mt. Erimanthos, SE Kalentzi, 1190 m.
Redetermined material. GREECE: nom. Ahaia, O. Aroania canalino, 1330 m, 1.VI.1995 –4. VI.1996, 1 ♀, Giachino & Vailati leg. (as D. hladilorum in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCGP).
New material. GREECE: distr. Ahaïa, Erímanthos Mts., Kalentzi, firrywood, 1240 m (37°56'52.21"N, 21°46'15.90"E), 3. VI.2013, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 2 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 2 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); distr. Ahaïa, Panachaiko Mts., Kalanistra, 20.IV.–2. V.2014, 2 ♀♀, Manfred Egger leg. (PCME); Erímanthos Mts., Kalentzi env. (ca. 37°56'49.41"N, 21°46'11.26"E), 21. V.2015, 3 ♀♀, Manfred Egger leg. (PCME); Erímanthos Mts., Kalentzi env., 1265 m (37°57'2.22"N, 21°46'35.46"E), 10. VI.2015, 8 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 1 ♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 1 ♂, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); dtto, 2 ♂♂, T. Németh leg. (PCRK); dtto, 1 ♀ (HNHM); distr. Ahaïa, Panachaiko Mts., Kalanistra env., Agios Athanasios (ca. 38° 4'44.65"N, 21°51'35.45"E), 10. V.2015, 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Manfred Egger leg. (PCME); Peloponnese, Mt. Chelmos, Kalavrita env., 28. IV.1993, 1 ♂, J. Macek leg. (PCVK); distr. Ahaïa, Aroánia Óri Mts., firrywood, 1420 m (38°1'14.26"N, 22°10'21.28"E), 30. V.2013, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, J. Mertlik leg.; dtto, 30. V.2013, 1 ♂, P. Brůha leg. (PCVD); Mt. Chelmos (38°0'54.31"N, 22°11'24.35"E), 12. V.2015, 1 ♀, Manfred Egger leg. (PCME).
Description of female. Like male, but more robust body, shorter antennae, surpassing the posterior angles of pronotum about two segments (more than three in males), and pronotum wider (Figs 69, 71–74). The sclerotized spines of bursa copulatrix as in Fig. 233.
Diagnosis. Dima neumanni is a medium-sized to large species (body length: 11.5–14.7 mm) with the coarse pronotal punctation, the long straight erect setae on the pronotal sides (Fig. 146), and long straight semi-erect to erect pubescence of elytra (Figs 67–74). The species limits of D. neumanni and D. schnitteri are unclear and it is possible, that they are conspecific. Dima schnitteri is known only from the lower elevations of the southern part of the Erimanthos Mts. (south from the distributional range of D. neumanni; Fig. 246), is mostly larger, more flattened and paler (Figs 105–108). The third species in the region, D. assingi, is also morphologically very like D. neumanni, but differs in the elytra with shorter decumbent to semi-erect pubescence in basal third or half, and in not erect (only semi-erect) setae in the first halfs of the pronotal sides (Figs 6–9, 120).
Intraspecific variability. Dima neumanni is rather a morphologically variable species, with the long erect pubescence of elytra as the only stable character. The apical part of the scutellum is either more or less rounded or subacute. The specimens from Aroania Mts. are paler, and one of the males has more elongate apical lobe of paramera. All known specimens from Aroania Mts. and some from Panachaiko Mts. have more parallel-sided and elongate pronotum than the specimens from the type locality in Erimanthos Mts. (Figs 67–74). It must be noted, that all specimens of D. assingi (which differs only slightly from D. neumanni and occurs also in Aroania Mts.) are lightly colored and have also more elongate pronotum (Figs 6–9). The limits of the Dima species distributed in the northern Peloponnese must be confirmed by future studies including much more extensive sampling and the DNAbased methods of species identification.
Distribution. Greece (Peloponnese: Erimanthos Mts., Panachaiko Mts., Aroania Mts.; Fig. 246).
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 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4670787