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Cardiophorus nigratissimus Buysson 1891

Description

Cardiophorus nigratissimus Buysson, 1891

Distribution in Iran. Bushehr, East Azarbaijan, Khuzestan, Zanjan (Cate et al. 2002), Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari (Bagheri et al. 2004a), Fars, Qazvin, Tehran (Platia 2013a), Golestan (Mardjanaian et al. 2013), Iran (no locality cited) (Buysson 1906; Jakobson 1913; Mardjanian 1987; Agaev 1988; Khanjani 2006; Cate 2007; Platia 2013a).

New materials. Fars (Mian Jangal), Guilan (Sang Rud-Jirand), Hamadan (Goltappe to Allsadr cave Road, 20 km S Allsadr), Kordestan (13 km S Saqqez; 34 km S Sanandaj), Lorestan (5–15 km SW Dorud; Azna-Arak road; Caman Sultan), West Azarbajjan (Ghasemlo S Orumiyeh), Zanjan (Zangan-Passo N Sorkheh Disaj) (Platia coll.).

General distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan (Cate 2007), Russia (South European Territory) (Prosvirov 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Platia, Giuseppe & Ghahari, Hassan, 2016, An annotated checklist of click-beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from Iran, pp. 239-275 in Zootaxa 4137 (2) on page 247, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/255211

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Buysson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Cardiophorus
Species
nigratissimus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cardiophorus nigratissimus Buysson, 1891 sec. Platia & Ghahari, 2016

References

  • Cate, P. C., Platia, G. & Schimmel, R. (2002) New species and records of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Iran, with a checklist of known species. Folia Heyrovskyana, 10 (1), 25 - 68.
  • Bagheri, M. R., Rajabi, Gh. R., Ardebili, Zh., Haghshenas, A. R., Hosseini Nia, A. & Poorghaz, A. (2004 a) Faunistic study of click beetles (Col.: Elateridae) in Iran. Proceedings of the 16 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, pp. 129.
  • Platia, G. (2013 a) Click-beetles collected in Iran by the expeditions of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt with description of two new species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae). Vernate, 32, 391 - 402.
  • Buysson, H. du (1906) Note sur les Elaterides recoltes en Perse par M. J. de Morgan en 1894. Bulletin de Museum d'histoire naturele, Paris, 1, 1 - 4 [17 - 20].
  • Jakobson, G. G. (1913) Beetles of Russia and Western Europe. St. Petersburg, 1024 pp.
  • Mardjanian, M. A. (1987) Fauna Armyanskoi SSR. Nasekomye Zhestkokryle. Shchelkuny (Elateridae). Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk Armanskoi SSR. Erevan, 204 pp.
  • Agaev, B. I. (1988) Zoogeograficheskaya analiz fauny zhelkov shchelkunov (Coleoptera, Elateridae) vostochnogo Zakavkaz'ya. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67 (4), 539 - 547.
  • Khanjani, M. (2006) Vegetable pests in Iran. Bu-Ali Sina University, No. 205, 467 pp.
  • Cate, P. G. (2007) Family Elateridae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 4. Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 89 - 209.
  • Prosvirov, A. S. (2013) To the knowledge of the fauna of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of south of European Russia and the Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 9 (2), 253 - 259.