Thymogethes khorasanicus sp. nov. (Figs 13–14, 19) Diagnosis. Medium-sized (length 2.53), body shiny black, legs blackish, and antennae chestnut brown with blackish antennal club and first antennomere. Maximum pronotal width near posterior angles (similar to Fig. 2). Similar to the widespread European species T. egenus (Erichson, 1845), re-described by Audisio (1993b), but with interspaces between dorsal punctures on pronotum and most of elytra rather smooth and shining, and distinctly narrower male protarsal plates (Ratio WFTA/LFTA = 0.31–0.33). Differentiated from T. egenus as well as from the closely related T. otini (Easton, 1954) from North Africa by the wider male genitalia, and the paramera being more arcuately extruded laterad in dorsal view (Fig. 13). Type material. 1 ♂, male holotype, IRAN : North Khorasan Province, Zoshk Valley above Shandiz, Binalud Mts, 36°17'N 59°07'E, 1800–2400 m, 5.VI.2014, leg. P. Audisio, on Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. (CAR). Paratypes: IRAN : same data as holotype, on Mentha spicata (L.) and M. × piperita, 4 males, 4 females (NMPC, HMIM, CAR, CLA); South Khorasan Province, 25 km N Birjand, 33°05´N 59°18´E, 2000 m, 6–7.VI.1977, (loc. no. 360), Exp. Nat. Mus. Prague, leg. J. Jelínek, on Mentha sp. (Lamiaceae), 6 males, 4 females (NMPC, HMIM, CAR, CLA); Razavi Khorasan Province, Bonarg village, Esger Mts, 33°53'29''N 58°47'0.1''E, 1850 m, 4.VI.2014, leg. P. Audisio, 3 males, 4 females (NMPC, HMIM, CAR). Other examined material: Mazandaran Province, E Alborz Mts, Veresk, 35°57´N 52°56´E, 800 m, 2.VIII.1970, Exp. Nat. Mus. Prague, 7 males, 24 females (NMPC, CAR, CLA); North Khorasan Province, Kalat 37°09´N 59°20´E, (loc. no. 373), Exp. Nat. Mus. Prague, 17.VI.1977, 1 male (NMPC). Description. Male [holotype]. Length 2.53 mm; width (at elytral widest point) 1.25 mm. Body elongate, narrow, transversely convex and moderately parallel-sided (similar to Fig. 2), black and shining, with short and fine silvery to golden-olivaceous pubescence. Legs blackish, antennae chestnut brown with ...