Pharaonus (Pharaonus) adelphus Keith, Sabatinelli, and Uliana, new species (Figs. 3, 4, 13, 15, 21) Diagnosis. A species of Pharaonus with dark body integuments, except for yellowish-brown elytra. Clypeus strongly transverse (2.2–2.5 times as wide as long), with right angles. Head and pronotum with long, erect pilosity; elytra glabrous except for on narrow basal-humeral area. Pronotum impressed along the midline, punctation dense and coarse. Pygidium with a large, impunctate area. Antennal club of the male 0.91–0.94 times as long as the clypeus width. Protibiae bidentate. Examined material. Holotype: [Iran], Kerman, 2.VI. [19] 51, [leg.] Salavatian, ♂ (MHNG); aedeagus (Fig. 15 d) lost after being photographed. Paratypes: same data as the holotype, 2 ♂ (HMIM, MUCC); [Iran], Kerman, Bakram-djord [= Bahramjerd, sensu Barari 1998], 17.IV. [19] 51, [leg.] Salavatian leg, 1 ♀ (GSCP). [Iran], Persien, Prov. Kerman, 7.V. [19] 64, and a more recent label “ Persia, Prov. Kerniam”[sic!], 1 ♀ (NMP, ex coll. D. Král). Description of the male holotype. Length (from the anterior margin of the clypeus to the apex of the elytra) 8.1 mm. Head, pronotum and underside black, antenna light brown with apex of 1 st article and club darker, legs black with brown tarsi, elytra yellowish brown, darker along the suture and the epipleural margin. Head: clypeus very transverse (2.5 times as wide as long), almost rectangular, with margins clearly raised. Anterior margin straight, anterior angles right, broadly rounded. Integument glabrous; with large, shallow, and irregular punctures defining a coarse and reticulate sculpture. Frontoclypeal suture almost invisible, but marked by a dense tuft of long, yellowish-gray, erect pilosity. Frons with sculpture similar to that of the clypeus, and with pilosity becoming shorter and sparser going from frontoclypeal suture towards vertex. Ocular canthus strong, eyes small, not very protruding. Antennae with 9 antennomeres; club with 3 antennomeres, 1.8 times longer than the funicle (antennomeres 2–6) ...