Dima hladilorum Schimmel 1987
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 hladilorum

description: Dima hladilorum Schimmel, 1987
Figs 47–49, 137, 190, 245.
Dima hladilorum Schimmel, 1987: 42; Schimmel & Platia 1991: 293; Schimmel 1993: 247; Schimmel 1996: 141; Wurst 1997: 3; Cate 2007: 184; Schimmel & Platia 2008: 580; Platia 2012: 200.
Type depositories. Holotype, ♂ (PCRS), allotype, ♀ (PCJH), 4 paratypes: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (PCRS, PCGP, PCJM, PCJH).
Type locality. Greece, Parnassos Mt., 1700 m.
Redetermined material. Three paratypes of D. hladilorum from Macedonia (Galičica Mts.; Schimmel 1987) belong to D. macedonica (described later than D. hladilorum; Schimmel 1993) (Fig. 61). Some specimens recorded under D. hladilorum in Schimmel & Platia (2008) were redetermined as D. arndti (Taygetos Mts., Crete; 4 ex.), D. assingi (Kilini Mts.; 1 ex.), D. pelionensis sp. nov. (Mt. Pilio; 2 ex.), and D. vailatii (Kajmakčalan Mts.; 2 ex.).
New material. Greece: distr. Viotía, Parnassos Mts., Ski center env., firrywood, 1700 m (38°32'54.89"N, 22°34'25.84"E), 28.V.2013, 9 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ (PCRK); dtto, 6 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 6 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); distr. Viotía, Parnassos Mts., Ski center env., firrywood, 1700 m (38°32'54.89"N, 22°34'25.84"E), 30.V.2014, 41 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 32 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 12 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); prov. Central Gr., distr. Phthiotis, Mt. Parnassos, 4 km NE Kalivia Arachova, spruce forest, 38°32'22.65"N, 22°34'12.45"E, 1700 m, singled at night, 25.–26.V.2015, leg. A. Kotán, Gy. Németh, B. Szelenczey & V. Szénási, 9 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ (PCBS); dtto, 10 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ (PCRK); dtto, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (HNHM).
Diagnosis. Dima hladilorum is a smaller species (body length: 9.4–10.0 mm; Figs 47–49) with pronotum with sparse punctuation and shiny intervals, pubescence of the pronotal sides semi-erect along its whole length (Fig. 137), scutellum convex with its frontal margin steeply declined, and paramera robust, elongate (Fig. 190). This species is like D. zbuzeki sp. nov. from Agrafa Mts., however it differs from the latter by the less distinct pubescence on the posterior angles of pronotum, convex scutellum with medially emarginate frontal margin, elytral striae often indistinct or missing in the apical part, and by the shape of the apical lobe of paramera (Figs 47-49, 116–118, 137, 162, 190, 221). Dima fthiotidensis and D. evritaniensis differ from D. hladilorum in the matt, densely punctate pronotum (Figs 26–28, 35–41) and smaller apical lobe of paramera (Figs 183, 186–187); D. etoliensis by the shape of antennae (narrower, with longer antennomeres), flattened scutellum with gradually declined frontal margin, larger body with more parallel-sided elytra, and the distinct striae along the whole length of elytra (Fig. 25). Dima pelionensis sp. nov. has a flattened scutellum, pubescence of the pronotal sides decumbent in apical two thirds (Figs 152–153), and the apical lobe of paramera shorter (Fig. 209).
Intraspecific variability. Some specimens have more or less indistinct elytral striae.
Distribution. Greece (Parnassos Mts.; Fig. 245).
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 page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4670787