New or little known Sphodrina from Iran (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)

作者：Casale Achille^*; Wrase David W

来源：Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 2018, 54(4): 309-317.

DOI：10.1080/00379271.2018.1492689

• taxonomy
• systematics
• morphology
• faunistics
• biogeography
• key to species
• Middle East

Notes are provided on some new, unexpected Sphodrina species from Iran, a country apparently well known from the entomological point of view. Notes on the species of Taphoxenus (Lychnifugus) of the Sphodrus phyletic lineage are added, with descriptions of Taphoxenus (Lychnifugus) elburzenis n. sp. (type locality: Iran, Elburz: Damavand Mt, 10 km W of Reme, 52 degrees 02'24"E, 35 degrees 53'22"N, 2200-2650 m) and Taphoxenus (Lychnifugus) murzini n. sp. (type locality: Iran, Fars: NW Sepidan, Poolad Kaf, 30 degrees 22'01"N, 51 degrees 54'00"E, 3100 m). Laemostenus (Arabosphodrus) laserae n. sp. (type locality: S Iran: Hormozgan, Genu Mts, N Bandar Abbas, 27 degrees 24'04.5"N, 56 degrees 10'49.6"E, 1680 m) is described. This species is particularly interesting, because it is the first representative of subgenus Arabosphodrus besides the type species of the subgenus, endemic to the mountains of North Oman. New records and illustrations of Laemostenus (Laemostenus) luristanus are provided, a little-known species from central Iran described from only two specimens. The diagnostic features of all species newly described are illustrated and their possible relationships are discussed.

• 出版日期2018