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Issue: Vol. 4379 No. 4: 16 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.4.1
Page range: 451–483
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A review of the genus Prosodes Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Iran

Southern Federal University, Bolshaya Sadovaya str., 105, 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Caspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 367000, M. Gadzhiev str. 45, 367000, Makhachkala, Russia.
Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary.
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, 3 Podbelsky highway, St Petersburg, Pushkin 196608, Russia. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Coleoptera Blaptini Turkmenistan Afghanistan new species key to species synonymy lectotypes

Abstract

A taxonomic review of the genus Prosodes Eschscholtz, 1829 of Iran is given. Two new species from the subgenus Meropersina Reitter, 1909 are described, both from West Azerbaijan Province: P. kasatkini sp. n. and P. shokhini sp. n. Three new synonymies are proposed: Prosodes (Dilopersina) mithras Reitter, 1904 = Prosodes (Dilopersina) chorassanica G. Medvedev, 1996, syn. n., Prosodes (Dilopersina) neopersis Semenov, 1910 = Prosodes (Dilopersina) exilis Medvedev, 1996, syn. n., Prosodes (Meropersina) cordicollis Allard, 1883 = P. cordicollis v. vermicularis Reitter, 1909, syn. n. Lectotypes are designated for Prosodes calcarata Reitter, 1893, Prosodes cordicollis v. vermicularis Reitter, 1909, Prosodes dentimana Reitter, 1909, Prosodes jakowlewi Reitter, 1909, Prosodes jakowlewi Semenov, 1894, Prosodes laticauda Reitter, 1896, Prosodes mithras Reitter, 1904, Prosodes vermiculosa Reitter, 1909, and Prosodes consanguinea Allard, 1885. The Iranian species Prosodes neopersis Semenov, 1910 is resurrected from the synonymy of Prosodes vestita Allard, 1880 and recorded from Turkmenistan for the first time. Prosodes vestita Allard, 1880 is raised to species level. The distribution of Prosodes kraatzi Reitter, 1893 is corrected: this species is known only from Eastern Afghanistan (not from Iran). Morphology of the two closely related subgenera, Dilopersina Reitter, 1909 and Meropersina Reitter, 1909 is discussed. A key to 17 Iranian species of the genus Prosodes is given (Prosodes kraatzi with doubtful Iranian occurrence is also added).

 

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