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Drapetes flavipes Baudi di Selve, 1870 - Elateridae
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Autore:  strepens [ 17/01/2022, 12:48 ]
Oggetto del messaggio:  Drapetes flavipes Baudi di Selve, 1870 - Elateridae
Unique specimen, night, at light.
Length 3.8 mm.
Is it Drapetes flavipes Baudi di Selve or D. talyshensis Dolin & Agajev, 1985 ??
It was impossible to find the original description* of D. talyshensis, so I do not know the differences between these 2 species.
Your help will be very welcome !!!

In any case, this is a new species for Europe.

* Dolin V. G. & Agajev B. I. 1985: Novyy vid zhuka-shchelkuna roda Drapetes (Coleoptera, Elateridae) iz Talysha.
[A new species of the click beetle genus Drapetes (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from Talysh].
Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 65: 1746-1747.

:hi: :hi:
George

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Autore:  Anostirus [ 17/01/2022, 14:27 ]
Oggetto del messaggio:  Re: Drapetes sp.
in the website www.elateridae is figured a Paratype female of D. talyschensis. Myself (Platia, 2017) recorded this species from Iran. I don't know the differences with flavipes Baudi from Cyprus and flavipes subparallelus Pic from Turkey. The species seems to be very similar. I have in collection only a female of D. talyschensis and compared with your pictures, my specimen show the sides of pronotum more narrowing from base to apex!
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Autore:  strepens [ 17/01/2022, 19:41 ]
Oggetto del messaggio:  Re: Drapetes sp.
Thank you very much Giuseppe !!!
I know this photo.
http://www.elateridae.com/zobrbruk.php?id=4346
The punctuation on pronotum seems also as different between the photo and the specimen from Samos.
So, more probably D. flavipes.
But not absolutely sure.
Autore:  strepens [ 17/01/2022, 21:17 ]
Oggetto del messaggio:  Re: Drapetes sp.
The original description of D. talyschensis (in Russian) and its translation (in English) have just arrived.
The text made a completely strange trip in few hours (Russia - Czech Republic - Cyprus - Greece).
And now the result lands here (Italy).
:lol: :lol1:

Based on the proportions of pronotum and elytrae, as well as the density of punctuation, this is a Drapetes flavipes Baudi di Selve, 1870, known so far from Cyprus and southern Turkey.
I will not try to define the subspecies.

A problem that has been pending for 24 years, has been solved.
Thank you very much, everyone involved !!!
:lov2: :lov1: :birra:
George
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