Thymogethes khorasanicus Audisio, Cline, Lasoń, Jelínek, Sabatelli & Serri, 2017, sp. nov. ...

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 t... Mehr ...