Pharaonus (Pharaonus) farsensis Keith, Sabatinelli, and Uliana, new species (Figs. 6, 14, 18) Diagnosis. a species of Pharaonus (Pharaonus) with dark body integuments, except for yellowish-brown elytra. Clypeus strongly transverse (2.1–2.4 times as wide as long), with right angles. Head and pronotum with long, erect pilosity, elytra with scattered long pilosity, more dense on odd intervals. Pronotum impressed along the midline, punctation dense and coarse. Pygidium with a large impunctate area. Antennal club of the male 1.13–1.16 as long as the clypeus width. Protibiae bidentate. Examined material. Holotype: Iran, Darab, VI.1960, s/blé [= on wheat], [leg.] Rémaudière, ♂ (MNHN). Paratypes: same data of the holotype, 3 ♂ (1 DKCC, 2 MNHN). Description of the male holotype. Length (from the anterior margin of the clypeus to the apex of the elytra) 9.2 mm. Head, pronotum and underside black; antenna light brown with apex of antennomere 1 and club darker; legs black with dark brown tarsi; elytra yellowish-brown, ... : Published as part of Keith, Denis, Sabatinelli, Guido & Uliana, Marco, 2015, Synopsis of the genus Pharaonus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), with descriptions of new taxa, pp. 167-180 in Zootaxa 4012 (1) on pages 171-176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/244632 ...