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, ... : Published as part of Audisio, Paolo, Cline, Andrew R., Lasoń, Andrzej, Jelínek, Josef, Sabatelli, Simone & Serri, Sayeh, 2017, New species and records of pollen and sap beetles for Iran (Coleoptera: Kateretidae, Nitidulidae), pp. 369-383 in Zootaxa 4216 (4) on pages 371-374, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.242293 ...