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. rebmanni (Easton, 1957) by the comparatively larger male genitalia, the paramera much more extruded laterad, and by the more raised and centrally-placed concave tubercle on male last abdominal ventrite (Fig. 21) (less raised, flattened, wider, not concave nor evidently bicuspid, and placed closer to the posterior edge of the ventrite in T. rebmanni : Fig. 22). Type material. 1 ♂, male holotype, IRAN : Lorestan Province, Zagros Mts, SE Dorud, Oshtoran Kuh, small village near Chamnar, 33°25'05''N 49°09'44''E, 1695 m, 14.VI. 2014, leg. P. Audisio, on Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. (Lamiaceae) (CAR). Description. Male [holotype]. Length 2.48 mm; width (at elytral widest point) 1.28 mm. Body elongate, narrow, transversely convex and moderately parallel-sided (nearly as in Fig. 1), black and shining, with short and fine silvery to golden-olivaceous pubescence. Legs blackish with protibiae chestnut brown to blackish, and antennae chestnut brown with blackish antennal club. Head with dorsal punctures as large as or slightly smaller than an eye facet, moderately impressed, separated by one diameter or less, surface smooth and shining; front margin of clypeus regularly arcuately emarginate, completely bordered, with rather acute angles. Fronto-genal grooves narrow and shallow, but distinct. Antennae small, of normal size for group (cf. Fig. 1), with third antennomere slender, slightly longer than second; antennal club small. Pronotum ...