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Melanotus hirticornis
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Description
Melanotus hirticornis (Herbst, 1806)
(Figs. 31, 31a, 89, 162)
Material examined. 10 spcm. (♂ ♀) - Pakistan: Islamabad, Sect. 7 (33°43'N, 73°03'E), 600 m, 20.VI.- 20.VII.2011, 15.VI.2012, 15.VII.2012, G. Sabatinelli leg., at light (CPG).
Aedeagus as in Figs. 31, 31a (length 2.31 mm).
Distribution. Nepal, China (Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan), Oriental Region (Cate, 2007); India (Assam) (Platia & Schimmel, 2001); Pakistan (Akhter et al., 2011).
Notes
Published as part of Platia, Giuseppe, 2015, New species and records of Elateridae from North Pakistan, mostly collected by Guido Sabatinelli in 2011 - 2012 (Coleoptera)., pp. 3-52 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11372600
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CPG
- Scientific name authorship
- Herbst
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Elateridae
- Genus
- Melanotus
- Species
- hirticornis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melanotus hirticornis (Herbst, 1806) sec. Platia, 2015
References
- Cate, P. C. 2007. Family Elateridae, pp. 89 - 209. In! Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera vol. 4. Elateroidea - Derontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Limexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 935 pp.
- Platia, G. & Schimmel, R. 2001. Revisione delle specie orientali (Giappone e Taiwan esclusi) del genere Melanotus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Melanotinae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino - Monografie, 27! 638 pp.
- Akhter, A. M.; Drumont, A.; Rizvi, A. S. & Ahmed, Z. 2011. Notes on species of Cardiophorinae (Candeze, 1860) from Pakistan with description of a new species (Coleoptera Elateridae) and new records. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 43 (3)! 477 - 481.