Thymogethes kassites Audisio, Cline, Lasoń, Jelínek, Sabatelli & Serri, 2017, sp. nov.

Thymogethes kassites sp. nov. (Figs 7–8, 21) Diagnosis. Medium-sized (length 2.48), body shiny black, legs blackish with protibiae chestnut brown to blackish, and antennae chestnut brown with blackish antennal club. Maximum pronotal width near posterior angles. Similar to the widespread European species T. lugubris (Sturm, 1845), revised by Easton (1954) and re-described by Audisio (1993b), but with interspaces between dorsal punctures on pronotum and most of elytra smooth and shining. Differentiated (see key to identification of the Near East Thymogethes below) from the closely related T. reb... Mehr ...