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Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень 15(1): 107–116 © Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 2019
1Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000 Russia. E-mail: nalassus@mail.ru 2Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str., 43a, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000 Russia 3Unterer Sägerweg, 74, Neuenbürg 75305 Germany. E-mail: grimm.tenebrio@t-online.de
1Прикаспийский институт биологических ресурсов – обособленное подразделение Федерального государственного бюджетного учреждения науки Дагестанского федерального исследовательского центра Российской академии наук, ул. М. Гаджиева, 45, Махачкала, Республика Дагестан 367000 Россия
2Дагестанский государственный университет, ул. М. Гаджиева, 43a, Махачкала, Республика Дагестан 367000 Россия
3 Нижний Сегервег , 74, Ноейнбург 75305 Германия
Key words: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Helopini, Mediterranean, Middle East, Middle Asia, new taxa.
Ключевые слова: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Helopini, Средиземноморье, Ближний Восток, Средняя Азия, новые таксоны.
Abstract. New localities and data on distribution of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini are presented. In total, 46 species from 12 genera (Adelphinus Fairmaire et Coquerel, 1866, Catomus Allard, 1876, Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Pelorinus Vauloger, 1900), Helops Fabricius, 1775,
Raiboscelis Allard, 1876, Entomogonus Solier, 1848, Hedyphanes Fischer von Waldheim, 1820, Nalassus Mulsant, 1854, Eustenomacidius Nabozhenko, 2006, Zophohelops Reitter, 1902, Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837, Odocnemis Allard, 1876) are reviewed. A brief review of taxonomic works for each genus is given. The following new taxa are described: Adelphinus (s. str.) baehri sp. n. from Morocco (differs from all congeners by the presence of erect black spine-like setae on elytra), Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n. from Western Turkey (belongs to the obesus species-group, differs from all similar species with wrinkled prohypomera by the dorsally dark-blue body, and the structure of the aedeagus), Zophohelops (s. str.) staveni sp. n. from Eastern Turkey (similar to Z. montanatolicus Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2014, from which it differs by the coarsely and densely puncturated pronotum, coarsely wrinkled prohypomera with sparse punctures, absence of hair brush at middle of male abdominal ventrite 1 and not beaded abdominal ventrite 5). The following new combination is proposed: Euboeus (Pelorinus) globicollis (Seidlitz, 1896), comb. n. (transferred from Probaticus Seidlitz, 1896). Hedyphanes koltzei Heyden, 1892 is recorded for Kazakhstan for the first time. The distribution of Entomogonus saphyrinus (Allard, 1876) and Entomogonus duchoni Reitter, 1903 is corrected, both species occur only in Turkey. The species
Research Article / Научная статья
DOI: 10.23885/181433262019151-107116
Catomus fulvipes (Reiche et Saulcy, 1857) is distributed in Syria and Israel, but not in Turkey.
Резюме. В работе представлены новые данные по местонахождениям и распространению жуков- чернотелок трибы Helopini. Всего рассмотрено 46 видов из 12 родов (Adelphinus Fairmaire et Coquerel, 1866, Catomus Allard, 1876, Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865 (Pelorinus Vauloger, 1900), Helops Fabricius, 1775, Raiboscelis
Allard, 1876, Entomogonus Solier, 1848, Hedyphanes Fischer von Waldheim, 1820, Nalassus Mulsant, 1854, Eustenomacidius Nabozhenko, 2006, Zophohelops Reitter, 1902, Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837, Odocnemis Allard, 1876). Сделан краткий обзор таксономических работ по каждому роду. Описаны следующие новые таксоны: Adelphinus (s. str.) baehri sp. n. из Марокко (отличается от всех видов рода наличием торчащих шипообразных щетинок на надкрыльях), Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n. с юга Западной Турции (относится к группе видов obesus, отличается от всех похожих видов с морщинистыми прогипомерами темно-синим дорсально телом и строением эдеагуса), Zophohelops (s. str.) staveni sp. n. из Восточной Турции (вид похож на
Z. montanatolicus Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2014, от которого отличается более густой и грубой пунктировкой переднеспинки, грубо морщинистыми прогипомерами с редкой пунктировкой, отсутствием волосяной щетки посередине первого абдоминального вентрита и не окаймленным на вершине пятым абдоминальным вентритом). Предложена новая комбинация: Euboeus (Pelorinus) globicollis (Seidlitz, 1896), comb. n. (перенесен из Probaticus Seidlitz, 1896). Hedyphanes koltzei Heyden,
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1892 указан для Казахстана впервые. Откорректировано распространение Entomogonus saphyrinus (Allard, 1876) и Entomogonus duchoni Reitter, 1903, оба вида встречаются только в пределах Турции. Catomus fulvipes (Reiche et Saulcy, 1857) распространен в Сирии и Израиле, в Турции не обитает.
The tribe Helopini is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. The greatest taxonomic diversity of this group is in the Western Palaearctic, especially in the Mediterranean, Iran and Middle Asia, where 38 genera (84% of all genera) are present [Nabozhenko, 2018a]. Western Palaearctic Helopini were poorly studied until now. Many genera from North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East need revision, especially Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865, Odocnemis Allard, 1876, Catomus Allard, 1876 and
Ectromopsis Antoine, 1949.
Below we add a significant contribution to the knowledge of Helopini from Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, Iran and Middle Asia based on material from several European museums and private collections.
The material studied is deposited in the following collections:
NME – Naturkundemuseum Erfurt (Germany);
SMNS – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Germany);
CRG – Private collection of Dr Roland Grimm (Neuenbürg, Germany);
CSB – Private collection of Stanislav Bečvar (Prague, Czech Republic);
CMN - Private collection of Dr Maxim Nabozhenko (Rostov-on-Don, Russia).
The system of the tribe and the order of genera are given according to Nabozhenko [2019].
The genus was revised by Reitter [1922], who erected the subgenus Adelphinops Reitter, 1922 for setated Asian taxa. Kocher [1958] discussed North African species, noted that two indistinct species, A. ciliatus Seidlitz, 1896 and
A. suturalis (Lukas, 1847), have intermediate characters, and described one additional species A. rotundicollis Kocher, 1958 from Morocco. Kaszab [1960] described one species from Afghanistan. Nabozhenko [2015d] made a brief review of Asian species and described one Adelphinus from South Western Iran.
Reitter’s characters for two subgenera Adelphinus s. str. and Adelphinops were based only on two species of the genus. The nominotypical subgenus differs from Adelphinops by the very thickened male antennomere 1 and bare dorsal side of body. After the description of
A. rotundicollis the character of sexual dimorphism in antennomere 1 for the nominotypical subgenus must be excluded. Below we describe Adelphinus baehri sp. n. from Morocco, which formally must be included in the Asian subgenus Adelphinops based on pubescent elytra
with strong setae at apex, but in this case the disjunction between Asian and African species will be very wide and the African exclave of Adelphinops will be located among Adelphinus s. str., which is doubtful. On the other hand African and Asian species may be monophyletic lineages after molecular genetic analysis. As a result we tentatively include our new species in the nominotypical subgenus.
Adelphinus (s. str.) baehri sp. n.
(Color plate 5: 1; Color plate 6: 7–10)
Material. Holotype, ♂ (CRG): “Morocco, 5 km E Imiter an der P 32, 21.4.1988, M & B. Baehr”, “Coll. Grimm”.
Pronotum nearly rectangular, weakly transverse (1.28 times as wide as long), widest at middle, 1.41 times as wide as head. Margins of pronotum weakly rounded, base straight at middle. Angles of pronotum weakly obtuse, narrowly rounded at apex. Disc weakly convex, with groove-like impression along lateral margin. Puncturation of disc coarse and dense as on head. All margins of pronotum finely beaded, only anterior margin with bead interrupted in middle. Prothoracic hypomera and prosternum with sparse coarse puncturation and smoothed wrinkles. Prohypomera very narrow, flattened near outer margin. Prosternal process not convex and not projected.
Elytra strongly elongate (1.94 times as long as wide), almost parallel, lateral margins weakly widely emarginated in basal half,
1.36 times as wide and 3.4 times as long as pronotum, 1.93 times as wide as head; elytral base 1.25 times as wide as pronotal base. Interstriae convex, with coriaceous microsculpture, covered with fine and short suberect light setae, additionally with longer erect strong black setae in apical third. Lateral deflected margin of elytra clearly visible for their entire length. Punctures in striae merged in grooves. Epipleura not impressed in base, but impressed in apical third, smooth, reaching sutural elytral angle. Ventral side covered with grey subrecumbent hairs. Metepisterna coarsely punctured. Metaventrite convex, with sparse rasp-like puncturation. Abdominal ventrites with fine dense puncturation, ventrite 5 not beaded along margin; intersegmental membranes between ventrites 3–5 strongly impressed.
Legs long, slender. Femora reddish brown, with rasp-like puncturation and suberect setae on inner side. Tibiae narrow along whole length, straight, only mesotibiae slightly bent. Protarsi widened, cordiform, weakly longitudinal.
Comparative diagnosis. This new species differs from all known Adelphinus by the presence of erect strong black
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spine-like setae on apical third of elytra (Color plate 6: 7), together with suberect fine and short pubescence.
Central Asian, Caucasian and partly Middle Eastern species were revised by Nabozhenko and co-authors [Nabozhenko, 2006a, 2015a; Nabozhenko et al., 2012; Nabozhenko, Ando, 2018; Nabozhenko, Tichý, 2019]. Mediterranean species were reviewed by Allard [1876, 1877], Seidlitz [1896] and Reitter [1922], by Vauloger
[1900], Koch [1935], Antoine [1949] and Nabozhenko [2015b] for North Africa, Ardoin [1958] for France, Español and Viñolas [1986] for Spain. Additional data on Spanish Catomus were added by Castro Tovar [2015].
The genus is widely distributed from the Western Mediterranean to China. North African and Middle East species need revision.
Catomus seidlitzi (Gebien, 1911)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Israel, desert S Arad, Mizpe Zohar, 2.04.1997 (leg. H. Sparmberg).
Catomus fulvipes (Reiche et Saulcy, 1857) (Color plate 5: 2, 3)
Material. 1♂, 1♀ (CRG), Syria, pass SW Nebek [Al-Nabek], 1200– 1400 m, 14.04.1978 (leg. W. Heinz); 1♂ (CSB), Syria, Damascus env., 10 km N Duma, 29.03.1993 (leg. S. Bečvar).
Notes. Types of C. fulvipes were not found and are probably lost. This little known species was described from Nablus (Palestine) and it is broadly interpreted by different authors. Reitter [1922] listed it for “Syrien”, but we don’t know which real species he re-described under the name “Catomus fulvipes”. Kaszab [1968] erroneously recorded it from Turkey (Gaziantep and Mardin provinces), where similar undescribed taxa are distributed. Reiche and Saulcy [1857] made a very clear and quality description, mentioned that the species has very shiny lacquered body, weakly longitudinal male pronotum, convex interstriae and striae merged in furrows. Specimens listed above distinctly refer to the Palestinian species C. fulvipes.
dark-brown, male with pronotum not beaded laterally, eyes (in lateral view) a little narrower. The male from Duma has a reddish brown pronotum, very finely beaded lateral margins of pronotum and eyes a little wider.
Subgenus Pelorinus Vauloger, 1900
The subgenus Pelorinus was completely revised by Seidlitz [1896] and Reitter [1922], by Vauloger [1900]
for North Africa, Antoine [1949] for Morocco, Español [1956] for Iberian Peninsula, Ardoin [1958] for France, Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko [2011] for the Caucasus. Some species from Iran, Turkey and Greece were described [Medvedev, 1976; Sparacio, 2007; Nabozhenko, 2011; Soldati, 2012]. The genus needs revision.
Species of the subgenus occur in the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe, Western Kazakhstan (Uralsk), Transcaucasia, Iran and Turkmenistan (Kopet Dag).
Euboeus (Pelorinus) globicollis (Seidlitz, 1896), comb. n.
All species of Probaticus Seidlitz, 1896 were transferred to the genus Euboeus after the synonymy Euboeus = Probaticus [Nabozhenko et al., 2017]. We overlooked this species in our small review [Nabozhenko et al., 2017], but Francesco Vitali (Musée national d’histoire naturelle de Luxembourg) kindly pointed to our misstep. As a result, this species is also transferred from Probaticus to the genus Euboeus. Seidlitz [1896: 707] described this species in the genus Helops Fabricius, 1775 based on one male and one female from Cyprus and indicated “Mus. Vienn” as depository. The first author studied all Helopini in the collection of NMW, but didn’t find types of “Helops globicollis”, which are probably lost.
Euboeus (Pelorinus) subrugosus (Duftschmid, 1812)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Greece, Kavala, 05.1988 (leg. F. Wrase); 1♂ (SMNS), Russia, Volgograd Region, Elton salt lake env., 18–23.05.2001 (leg.
V. Karalius, J. Miatleuski).
Euboeus (Pelorinus) tenebricosus s. str. (Brullé, 1832)
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Greece, Peloponnese, Erimanthos Mts., Kalentzi, 11.05.2015 (leg. M. Egger).
Notes. This species is very broadly interpreted since Seidlitz [1896] and Reitter [1922]. Actually, E. tenebricosus is distributed on Naxos Island (type locality) and Peloponnese. Reitter [1922] erroneously interpreted actual
E. tenebricosus as E. lacertosus (Küster, 1845).
Euboeus (Pelorinus) myops (Allard, 1876)
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Turkey, Muş Prov., Buğlan pass, 1640 m, 21.04–11.05.2014 (leg. C. Reuter).
Euboeus (Pelorinus) dorsalis (Allard, 1877)
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Turkey, Ankara Prov., pass between Akdoğan and Kızılcahamam, 1100 m, 5.04.1977 (leg. W. Heinz).
Variability. This species is variable in different localities, but males from all populations have absolutely identical genitalia. Typical males of E. dorsalis have a bare head, rounded and not projected anterior angles of pronotum, not flattened lateral pronotal sides, elytra
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without coriaceous microsculpture and strongly widened transverse pro- and mesotarsi. Specimens (males) from Eskişehir Province have setated (with recumbent goldish setae) head, acute and weakly projected anterior angles and narrower longitudinal pro- and mesotarsi. The specimen mentioned above from Ankara Province has a bare head, the pronotum weakly flattened on sides with acute moderately projected angles, elytra with coriaceous microsculpture and strongly widened tarsi.
Euboeus (Pelorinus) oliveirae (Seidlitz, 1896)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Spain, Lugo Prov., Sierra de Ancares, Fieró de Abaixo, 1500 m, 9.07.1996 (leg. D.W. Wrase); 1♂ (CRG), 2♀ (NME, CRG), Spain, Cáceres Prov, Extremadura, NE Plasencia, vicinity of Piornal, 40°07ʹ30ʺN / 05°49ʹ04ʺW, 900–1280 m, 5.04.2007 (leg. J. Weipert).
Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n.
(Color plate 5: 4; Color plate 6: 11–16)
Material. Holotype, ♂ (CRG): “Turkey, distr. Alanya, 30 km E Beldibi, 1000 m 01.IV.1996 leg. A. Kopetz”, “Coll. Grimm”.
Pronotum weakly cordiform, transverse (1.3 times as wide as long), widest before middle, 1.48 times as wide as head. Lateral margins weakly rounded, near base weakly emarginated. Anterior margin widely emarginated, base weakly bisinuate. Anterior angles acute, projected, narrowly rounded at apex, posterior angles weakly obtuse, with distinct apex. All margins beaded, base more widely beaded. Disc of pronotum moderately convex, lateral sides narrowly flattened. Puncturation of disc coarse and dense (puncture diameter about 1.5 times wider than interpunctural distance), punctures round, merged on sides. Prothoracic hypomera flattened on margins, with irregular wrinkles. Prosternal process weakly convex.
Pterothorax. Elytra elongate (1.5 times as long as wide),
1.32 times as wide and 2.6 times as long as pronotum, 1.96 times as wide as head. Interstriae flat (weakly convex only near apex), with moderately coarse, not dense puncturation (puncture diameter subequal to or a little wider than interpunctural distance) and sparse transverse wrinkles. Striae deep, often interrupted. Mesepisterna wrinkled near margin, smooth at middle and with coarse separated punctures near base. Metepisterna and metaventrite with finer dense puncturation. Metaventrite with distinct sharp V-shaped impression at middle.
Abdominal ventrites with coarse and dense, not merged puncturation.
Legs slender, long, tibiae straight. Pro- and mesotarsi weakly widened, not wider than tibiae at apex. Ratio of length: width of protarsomeres 1–4 – 1.4 : 1.1, 1.1 : 1, 0.9 : 0.9, 0.6 : 0.6.
Comparative diagnosis. The new species is most similar to the Balkan – Anatolian E. obesus (Frivaldszky von Frivald, 1835) and Anatolian E. granicollis (Seidlitz, 1896) by the wrinkled hypomera and the structure of aedeagus, and externally also similar to E. bodemeyeri (Reitter, 1900) and E. corrugatus (Seidlitz, 1896).
From the first species it differs in the following characters: body blue dorsally, pronotum wider before middle, gula reaching submentum, metaventrite with V-shaped impression, head and abdominal ventrites without recumbent pubescence of goldish setae, narrower male protarsi and shape of apical piece of aedeagus.
The new species differs from E. granicollis (Seidlitz, 1896) by the blue dorsum, flattened lateral sides of pronotum and prohypomera without microgranules.
Euboeus kopetzi sp. n. differs from E. bodemeyeri by the dorsally blue body, gula reaching submentum, not pubescent metaventrite and abdominal ventrites, wrinkled prothoracic hypomera (E. bodemeyeri has coarsely puncturated prohypomera) and the structure of aedeagus. Euboeus corrugatus also has the gula reaching the submentum, but distinctly differs from E. kopetzi sp. n. by the black body, strongly convex pronotum, punctate prohypomera, densely pubescent metaventrite and abdominal ventrites, finely and sparsely puncturated interstriae without transverse wrinkles and structure of
aedeagus.
The genus was completely revised by Reitter [1922]. Additional works on the taxonomy of Helops were published later: Antoine [1949] for Morocco, Ardoin [1958] for France, Aliquò et al. [2007] for Italy, Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko [2011] for the Caucasus and Iran, Nabozhenko and Keskin [2017] for Turkey. Some taxa were described by Pica [1984] from Greece and Grimm [1991] from Cyprus.
The genus is distributed in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa (Atlas), the Middle East, the Caucasus and North Iran (forests around the Caspian Sea).
Helops punctatissimus Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2017
Material. 1♂ (CRG), Turkey, vicinity of Tatvan, 1200 m, 04.1986 (leg.
I.R. Kenyery); 2♂, 2♀ (SMNS), Turkey, Van Province, Reşadiye, 1–17.06.2007 (leg. C. Reuter); 1♀ (SMNS), Turkey, 32 km W Bingöl, Kurucu pass, 1800 m, 20.04–11.05.2014 (leg. C. Reuter).
The genus was revised by Reitter [1922] but he confused the taxonomy of this group because he divided it based on the erroneous character of completely beaded and not (or incompletely) beaded abdominal ventrite 5. In fact, all Raiboscelis have the ventrite 5 completely beaded. In addition, many unclear taxa and forms were described and the group needs revision. Species of Raiboscelis occur in Italy, Greece, Western Turkey, Cyprus and countries of the Levantine region.
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Raiboscelis azureus (Brullé, 1832)
Material. 1♀ (SMNS), Greece, Morea [Peloponnese], Akrokorinth, 3.06.1976 (leg. K. Bernhauer).
Distribution. Greece, Italy (Sicily). The specimen mentioned above belongs to the black form, listed by Reitter [1922] as “v. tumidicollis Küst.”.
Raiboscelis syriacus (Reiche, 1861)
Material. 2♂, 3♀ (NME), 1♂ (CRG), Turkey, Mersin Prov., Anamur env., 8.03.2013 (leg. M. Snižek).
Nabozhenko, Löbl, 2008], but Reiche [1861: 6] indicated Beirut “Habitat Berytam vesus Syriae” in the original description.
The genus was completely revised by Reitter [1922]. Futher contributions to the taxonomy of the genus were summarized by Nabozhenko et al. [2018]. In addition, a new species from Jordan was described [Nabozhenko, Tichý, 2019].
Entomogonus (s. str.) angulicollis angulicollis
(Mulsant et Wachanru, 1853)
Material. 1♂, 1♀ (NME), Turkey, Osmanye Prov., Toprakkale / Issus, 80 m, 7.04.1978 (leg. W. Heinz).
Entomogonus (Delonurops) saphyrinus (Allard, 1876)
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), “Akchehir Anatol. c.”; 1♀ (SMNS), Turkey, Ankara Prov., 10 km SE Sereflikoçhisar, Tuz Gölu, 300 m, 10.04.1979 (leg. N. Kinzelbach); 1♂ (SMNS), Turkey, Ankara Prov.,
10 km S Polatlı, Yenimehmetlı Bucağı, 990 m, 9.05.1987 (leg.
P.M. Giachino); 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Gölbaşı reservoir, 23.05.1983 (leg.
H. Freude); 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Aksaray Prov., 20 km E Aksaray, Karawanserei, 38°29ʹ13.9ʺN / 34°12ʹ10.2ʺE, 1196 m, 30.04.2006 (leg.
P. Schnitter).
Distribution. Central Anatolia, subdeserts. This species is known only from Turkey. Records for Syria and Iraq [Nabozhenko, Löbl, 2008] are not supported by material, but the closely related taxon E. amri Nabozhenko et Tichý, 2019 occurs in Central Syria and Jordan.
Entomogonus (Delonurops) duchoni Reitter, 1903
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Turkey, Karamanmaraş Prov., NW Marasi, pass S Göksun, 12.06.1973 (leg. K. Bernhauer).
The genus was completely revised in a series of works by Nabozhenko and co-authors [Nabozhenko, 2005, 2013, 2018b; Abdurakhmanov, Nabozhenko, 2011; Nabozhenko, Lillig, 2013; Nabozhenko, Grimm, 2018]. Species of Hedyphanes are distributed from Western Anatolia and Egypt to Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, with highest diversity in Iran.
Hedyphanes seidlitzi seidlitzi Reitter, 1914
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Turkmenistan, Kopet Dag, 43 km SE Ashgabad, Sherlovka cordon, 700–800 m, 12–17.04.1990 (leg. A. Napolov); 1♂ (CRG), Turkmenistan, Kopet Dag Natural Reserve, NN Germab, 800 m, 19.04.1990 (leg. D. Telnov); 1♂ (CRG), Turkmenistan, 55 km S Ashgabad, Germab env., 1000 m, 20–21.04.1990 (leg. A. Napolov).
Hedyphanes koltzei Heyden, 1892
Material. 1♂ (CRG), Kazakhstan, Almaty Prov., Zharkent Distr., Koktaly, 300 m, 6.07.1996 (leg. V. Lukhtanov).
Hedyphanes bodemeyeri Reitter, 1914
Material. 1♂, 2♀ (SMNS), Iran, Kordestan Prov., Zage-ya-Bala, 2000 m, 13.05.2002 (leg. G. Sama).
Hedyphanes laticollis Fischer von Waldheim in Ménétriés, 1832
Material. 1♀ (SMNS), Iran, Azerbaijan e Sarqi Prov., 27 km W Nir, 1750 m, 20.05.2002 (leg. G. Sama).
The genus was revised by Reitter [1922]. Many regional taxonomic and faunistic papers are known on European Nalassus, among which some important taxonomic revisions were made by Kaszab [1938] on Hungary, Ardoin [1958] on France, Español [1961] on Spain and Aliquò et al. [2007] on Italy. An iconographic review of Nalassus of Middle Europe (with some errors) was published by Nóvak [2007]. Middle Asian species of the genus were studied by Medvedev [1987b]. East European, Caucasian, Turkish, Iranian, East Asian and American Nalassus were revised by Nabozhenko and co-authors [Nabozhenko, 2001b, 2006b, 2008a, 2010; Abdurakhmanov, Nabozhenko, 2011; Nabozhenko et al., 2016; Keskin et al., 2017a; Nabozhenko, Ando, 2018; Nabozhenko, Grimm, 2018].
The genus is widely distributed in the Holarctic, has
the range divided into four exclaves [Nabozhenko, Ando, 2018]: Western Palaearctic (from Western Europe and North Africa to Iran), East Kazakhstan (from Balkhash Lake and Moyunkum Desert to Tarbagatay), Pacific Asia and North America.
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Nalassus (s. str.) ecoffeti (Küster, 1850)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), France, Ardèche (Valence), Lamastra, 3.05.2005 (leg. T. Struyve); 1♀ (CRG), France, Hérault Department, deciduous forest in Mauroul, 43º34ʹ41ʺN / 02º52ʹ39ʺE, 560 m, 35.05.2014 (leg. W. Apfel).
Notes and distribution. The species occurs in France. Two subspecies (N. ecoffeti temperei and N. ecoffeti schaeferi) were described by Ardoin [1958], but F. Soldati and L. Soldati [2001] synonymized both taxa after the study of large series. Our specimen from Ardèche valley corresponds to the aberration schaeferi.
Nalassus (s. str.) faldermanni (Faldermann, 1837)
Material. 1♂, 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Düzce Prov., Güzeldere pass, E part, 2400 m, 8.05.1989 (leg. W. Heinz); 1♀ (SMNS), Azerbaijan, Shamakhi, 1800 m, 4.04.2000 (leg. M. Pejcha); 3♀ (SMNS), Iran, Azerbaijan e Garbi Prov., 40 km S Orumiye, 1400 m, 15.05.2002 (leg. G. Sama); 1♂ (SMNS), Iran, Alborz Prov., 10 km N Gachsar, 19.04.2003 (leg. G. Sama); 1♂, 3♀ (SMNS), Armenia, Sevan Lake, Artsvanist to Vardenis, 1900 m, 11–12.07.2015 (leg. W. Heinz).
Notes and distribution. This widely distributed species consists of several different populations with identical male aedeagus: 1) small brown cylindrical specimens with small eyes, more thickened male antennae and the pronotum with margins very narrowly flattened in basal third, occurs in Armenia and Turkey (Van: Erek Dağ), beetles inhabit stones, feed on epilithic lichens; this population was described as Cylindrinotus (Helopocerodes) eligius Reitter, 1922 (synonymized by Nabozhenko [2001b]); 2) small to large brown specimens with large eyes, less thickened male antennae and wider completely flattened sides of pronotal disc; the most widespread population, distributed from south of European Russia (Rostov Region) and Eastern Anatolia to Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dag), beetles inhabit many species of trees and shrubs, feed on lichen Xanthoria parietina Linnaeus [Nabozhenko et al., 2016]; 3) median black specimens, antennae and pronotum as in previous population, known only from Taman Peninsula and Crimea (Sivash), beetles occur in sands under Stipa spp., trophic relations are unknown; 4) the most western high mountain population from NW Turkey (Düzce Province) differs from other populations by the following combination of characters: shiny body, male with strongly thickened antennomeres, pronotal disc completely flattened on sides.
Nalassus (s. str.) zaratustrai Nabozhenko, 2006
Material. 1♀ (SNMS), Iran, Fars Prov., pass between Komehr and Ardakan, 2800 m, 24–25.04.2014 (leg. W. Heinz).
Nalassus (Caucasonotus) pharnaces Allard, 1876
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Solokhaul, 11.06.2008 (leg. T. Struyve).
Nalassus (Helopondrus) sareptanus (Allard, 1876)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), “SE-Europe, Balkan [Bulgaria], Primorsko W, leg. Wolf 07.06.90”.
Nalassus (Helopondrus) heres (Reitter, 1922)
Material. 1♀ (SMNS), Iran, Golestan Prov., Farsiyan (Sud Azad Sar), 1100 m, 30.05.2001 (leg. G. Sama); 2♂, 5♀ (SMNS), Iran, Golestan Prov., 10 km S Bandar e Gaz, 150 m, 27.05–7.06.2001 (leg. G. Sama); 1♀ (SMNS), Mazandaran Prov., road to Chorti (SW Chalkorud), 1150 m, 21.06–3.07.2003 (leg. G. Sama).
Nalassus (Helopondrus) cambyses (Seidlitz, 1896)
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Iran, W Mazandaran, Hasan Keif, 19– 21.04.1999 (leg. J. Rejsek); 2♂ (SMNS), Mazandaran Prov., Elburz, Kandovan pass, 36°09ʹ10ʺN / 51º18ʹ99ʺE, 3000 m, 31.05.2008 (leg. A. Skale).
Nalassus (Helopondrus) rejseki Nabozhenko, 2014
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Iran, Zanjan Prov., Tah-i-Suleyman, 2200– 2300 m, 3.05.2014 (leg. W. Heinz); 1♂, 2♀ (CMN), West Azerbaijan Prov., S of Piranshahr, 36°36ʹ31ʺN / 45º08ʹ21ʺE, 20–22.05.2015 (leg. D. Kasatkin,
S. Kakunin).
The genus was revised by Nabozhenko [2006a]. Later, one additional species of the subgenus Caucasohelops Nabozhenko, 2006 was described from Eastern Anatolia [Keskin et al., 2017b].
Eustenomacidius (s. str.) turcmenicus
(G.S. Medvedev, 1964)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Turkmenistan, Kopet Dag Nature Reserve, N Germab, 800 m, 19.04.1990 (leg. D. Telnov).
Middle Asian species were studied by Reitter [1902, 1922], Skopin [1964, 1966], Medvedev [1987a] and Nabozhenko [2001a, 2008b]. Middle East species of the genus were described by Nabozhenko and co-authors [Nabozhenko, Keskin, 2014; Nabozhenko, 2014].
Species of the genus are widely distributed in Tien- Shan (one species is also known from South Tajikistan), western exclave of the generic range includes three species (one from each country) from Iran (the subgenus Zophondrus Nabozhenko, 2014), South Western Transcaucasia and Turkey.
Zophohelops (s. str.) tiro (Reitter, 1902)
Material. 5♂, 3♀ (CRG), Uzbekistan, Chimgan, 2000 m, 6.05.1978 (leg. Kr. Pospíšil); 1♂ (CRG), Uzbekistan, Chimgan,12.05.1989 (leg.
H. Sparmberg).
New species and new records of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini Color plate 5
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Figs 1–6. Helopini from the Mediterranean region, habitus.
1 – Adelphinus baehri sp. n., male, holotype; 2 – Catomus fulvipes, male, Syria, Al-Nabek; 3 – the same, female; 4 – Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n., male, holotype; 5 – Zophohelops staveni sp. n., male, holotype; 6 – the same, female, paratype.
Рис. 1–6. Helopini из Средиземноморья, внешний вид.
1 – Adelphinus baehri sp. n., самец, голотип; 2 – Catomus fulvipes, самец, Сирия, Эль-Небек; 3 – то же, самка; 4 – Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n., самец, голотип; 5 – Zophohelops staveni sp. n., самец, голотип; 6 – то же, самка, паратип.
Color plate 6 New species and new records of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini
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Figs 7–20. Helopini from the Mediterranean region, details of structure.
7–10 – Adelphinus baehri sp. n., male; 11–16 – Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n., male; 17–20 – Zophohelops staveni sp. n., male. 7 – setation of elytra; 8, 11, 17 – aedeagus ventrally; 9, 12, 18 – aedeagus laterally; 10, 13 – median lobe of aedeagus; 14, 20 – spiculum gastrale, ventrally; 15 – plate of spicula gastrale, laterally; 16, 19 – male inner sternite VIII. Scale bars – 1 mm.
Рис. 7–20. Helopini из Средиземноморья, детали строения.
7–10 – Adelphinus baehri sp. n., самец; 11–16 – Euboeus (Pelorinus) kopetzi sp. n., самец; 17–20 – Zophohelops staveni sp. n., самец. 7 – щетинки на надкрыльях; 8, 11, 17 – эдеагус вентрально; 9, 12, 18 – эдеагус, вид сбоку; 10, 13 – медиальная доля эдеагуса; 14, 20 – гастральная спикула вентрально; 15 – лопасти гастральной спикулы, вид сбоку; 16, 19 – VIII внутренний стернит самца. Масштабные линейки – 1 мм.
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Zophohelops (s. str.) staveni sp. n.
(Color plate 5: 5, 6; Color plate 6: 17–20)
Material. Holotype, ♂ (NME): “Turkey, Van Catak [Çatak] / Bahcesaray [Bahçesaray], Karabet-Paß, 2800–3000 m, 4.7.1987 leg.
K. Staven”. Paratypes: 2♂ (CRG, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia) with same labels as the holotype; 1♂, 1♀ (CRG), 1♀ (NME), “Türkie, Anatolia bor. Vil. Van, Karabet geçidi E-Seite, 2.500–3.000 m üNN 3/4.VII.1987 leg. Heinz”.
Pronotum almost square (1.2 times as wide as long in the holotype), widest a little before middle or at middle, 1.5 times as wide as head (holotype). Anterior margin straight or weakly rounded. Lateral margins and base weakly rounded, rarely base weakly sinuated at middle. Anterior and posterior margins weakly obtuse, not projected, distinct. Anterior margin not beaded, lateral margins and base finely beaded. Disc strongly convex, with the same puncturation as on head, but finer and sparser at middle (puncture diameter 1.5–2 times as short as interpuncture distance), with unpuncturated middle line. Prosternum very coarsely and densely puncturated. Prothoracic hypomera with irregular coarse and dense wrinkles and sparse coarse punctures between them, narrowly flattened on margins. Prosternal process weakly convex, with distinct acute cone near apex.
Elytra oval (1.23 times as long as wide in the holotype),
1.4 times as wide and 2.07 times as long as pronotum, 2.15 times as wide as head (holotype). Base of elytra visibly wider than base of pronotum, strongly convex, with wide flat lateral edge (much wider than interval 9). Lateral margins strongly rounded. Striae consist of fine and elongate dotted punctures (strongly depressed near base), which merge in furrows at apex. Interstriae flat, with fine sparse puncturation, more shiny and distinctly punctured near base and at middle, matt (shagreen) and indistinctly punctured on sides and at apex. Epipleura impressed along the entire length, reach sutural angle, but very narrow at apex.
Mesoventrite coarsely wrinkled, mesepimera and metepisterna with dense and moderately coarse puncturation, mesepisterna with coarser and sparser punctures. Metaventrite with coarse and sparse punctures on sides and fine and sparse puncturation at middle.
Abdominal ventrites finely and sparsely punctured (puncture diameter 2–3 times as short as interpuncture distance), ventrite 5 not beaded at apex; ventrite 1 without hair brush at middle.
Trochanters with sparse brush of suberect reddish hairs and single long seta. Femora with dense recumbent reddish pubescence in basal half. Tibiae straight, male and female tarsi not widened.
Z. montanatolicus Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2014 (Turkey, Hakkary Province) from which it differs in the coarsely and densely puncturated pronotum, coarsely wrinkled prohypomera with sparse punctures (Z. montanatolicus
has finely wrinkled prohypomera), absence of hair brush at middle of male abdominal ventrite 1 and not beaded abdominal ventrite 5.
The genus was completely revised by Nabozhenko [2015c]. Most species of this group inhabit high mountain alpine meadows in Turkey, Transcaucasia and North Iran.
Cylindrinotus femoratus (Faldermann, 1837)
Material. 1♀ (SMNS), “USSR – Armenia Little Caucasus 4 – 5 June 1989”; 1♀ (CRG), Armenia, Garmi-Goht, 40°03ʹN / 44°45ʹE, 1700 m, 7.06.2003 (leg. Yokoi); 1♂ (CRG), Armenia, ca. 5 km NW Goris, 2000 m, 39°31ʹ48.6ʺN / 46°09ʹ04ʺE, 9.05.2017 (leg. H. Grimm).
Iran.
Cylindrinotus gibbicollis Faldermann, 1837
Material. 2♂, 1♀ (CRG): Turkey, Kars, Posof, Ilgardaği-Geçidi, 2350 m,10.05.1990 (leg. K. Staven); 2♂, 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Susuz env., 6.06.1994, (leg. R. Sehnal); 1♂ (CRG), Turkey, Ardahan Prov., Çamliçatak, Döceli, 1830 m, 29.07.2005 (leg. P. Schnitter); 3♀ (SMNS), Georgia, Tukmatash pass, 2000–2100 m, N Paravani, 7–8.07.2013 (leg. W. Heinz); 1♂ (CRG), Georgia, Tukmatash pass near Tsalka, Pinus forest, N side of pass, 1800 m, 17–18.07.2017 (leg. W. Heinz); 1♂, 2♀ (SMNS), Armenia, Vayoz dzor Prov., Vardenis Mts., Selim pass, 2400 m, 25–26.06.2015 (leg.
W. Heinz).
Cylindrinotus gibbosus (Seidlitz, 1896)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Rize / Trabzon provinces, Ovit pass, 11.06.1994 (leg. R. Sehnal).
Cylindrinotus nitidus (Seidlitz, 1896)
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Bitlis Prov., N Tatvan, Nemrut Dağı, 38°36ʹ34.4ʺN / 42°15ʹ26.5ʺE, 2336 m, 10.07.2005 (leg. Schnitter); 12♂
(SMNS), Turkey, Van Prov., Resadiye, 1–17.04.2007, 21.04–20.05.2014 (leg.
C. Reuter); 1♂ (SMNS), Turkey, Muş Prov., Buglan pass, 1640 m, 21.04– 11.05.2014 (leg. C. Reuter).
Cylindrinotus tchorokhicus Nabozhenko 2011
Material. 1♂, 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Artvin Prov., Yusufeli Distr., Kılıçkaya, 4.04.1994 (leg. R. Sehnal).
The group (under the genera Helops Fabricius, 1775, Cylindrinotus and Omaleis Allard, 1876) was revised in old works of Seidlitz [1896] and Reitter [1922]. Later, Antoine [1949] made a review of the genus (under the name Stenomax Allard, 1876) of Morocco; Español [1961] considered two Spanish species of this genus as Nalassus.
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The eastern species from the European part of the former USSR, Near East and the Caucasus were revised by Nabozhenko [2001b], Keskin and Nabozhenko [2011], Nabozhenko and Keskin [2016]. Other species need revision.
The genus is distributed from Spain and Morocco to Western Kazakhstan and Northern Iran.
Odocnemis (s. str.) altimontana
Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2016
Material. 1♀ (CRG), Turkey, Antalya Prov., Irmasan pass, 1300– 1500 m, 05.1987 (leg. Rasse).
Odocnemis (s. str.) amanosica
Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2016
Material. 3♀ (CRG), Syria, Idlib Prov., between Salma and Slemphe, 35°37ʹ03ʺN / 36°10ʹ34ʺE, 1100 m, 6.05.2002 (leg. Barries, Dostal, Preiss); 1♀ (CRG), Syria, Idlib Prov., 10 km Slemphe, 35°34ʹ45.6ʺN / 36°12ʹ53.1ʺE, 1320 m, 8.05.2002 (leg. Barries, Dostal, Preiss).
Odocnemis (s. str.) kakunini
Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2016
Material. 1♀ (SMNS), Iran, Lorestan Province, Razan, 55 km E Khorramabad, 2000 m, 11.05.2002 (leg. G. Sama).
Odocnemis (s. str.) punctata Allard, 1876
Material. 1♂ (SMNS), Lebanon, Bcharre, Cedrus forest, 1850 m, 9.04.1999 (leg. G. Sama); 1♀ (CRG), Lebanon, Ehden, Jabal Mar Elias, zw. Ehden v. Toula, 8.09–12.10.1999 (I. Puchner).
Odocnemis (s. str.) tuberculata (Küster, 1851)
Material. 1♂ (CRG), Greece, Peloponnese, S Levidi, 26.04.1999 (leg. Wachtel); 1♀ (CRG), Greece, Peloponnece, Ilia Region, Erimanthos range, N Mihas, 900–1100 m, 6.05.1999 (leg. I. Wolf).
Odocnemis (s. str.) alcida Reitter, 1922
Material. 1♂ (CRG), Greece, N Phtiotis, Oros Timfristos, 1800– 1950 m, 24.04.1983 (leg. M. Baehr).
Distribution. Greece. This species was known only by the holotype (male) from “Grechenland”. The data presented above is the first distinct locality for O. alcida.
Odocnemis (s. str.) euritopica euritopica
Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2016
Material. 1♂ (CRG), 4♂, 1♀ (NME), Turkey, Denizli Prov., pass S Denizli (Kazikbeyli Geçidi), Kurtköy, 800–1200 m, 25.03.1978 (leg. W. Heinz).
Odocnemis (s. str.) allardi Nabozhenko et Keskin, 2016
Material. 1♂ (CRG), 3♂, 3♀ (NME), Turkey, Ağry Prov., pass N Cumançay, 2000–2500 m, 25.07.1983 (leg. W. Heinz); 2♀ (NME), Turkey, Kars Prov., near Pazarcik, 2100 m, 13.05.1983 (leg. W. Heinz).
Odocnemis (s. str.) exarata Germar, 1817
Material. 1♀ (NME), Croatia, Split Prov., Hvar Island, Stari Grad vicinity, 43°12ʹN / 16°38ʹE, 28–30.06.2010 (leg. A. Weigel).
Odocnemis (Heloponotus) gracilis
(Fischer de Waldheim, 1823)
Material. 2♂ (SMNS), Russia, Crimea, Yaltinskaya yayla, 1200 m, 20.04.2008 (leg. M. Koštál).
The authors are much obliged to Stanislav Bečvar (Prague, Czech Republic), Matthias Hartmann (NME) and Wolfgang Schawaller (SMNS) for the provided material, to Denis Kasatkin (Rostov Branch of “VNIIKR”, Rostov-on- Don, Russia) for the preparation of photographs, to Harold Labrique (Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France) for pdf- copy of the paper of Kocher, to Eric G. Matthews (South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia) for linguistic review and corrections.
The study was supported by the basic research project the Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Biological diversity, organization and dynamics of populations and communities of the animal population, scientific basis for the management of biological resources of the Eastern Caucasus ecoregion”, registration number No. АААА-А17-117081640018-5, the Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Biodiversity of natural systems. Biological resources of Russia: state assessment and fundamental bases of monitoring” and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant No 18-04- 00243-A.
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Received / Поступила: 9.06.2019 Accepted / Принята: 26.06.2019