Giuseppe Platia. 2010.
NEW SPECIES AND CHOROLOGICAL NOTES OF CLICK BEETLES FROM THE PALEARCTIC REGION, ESPECIALLY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST (COLEOPTERA, ELATERIDAE).
Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), 2010, n. 46 23-49.
Abstract:
Thirty-four new species of click beetles belonging to the genera Lacon, Agriotes, Elathous, Athous (Orthathous), Dima,
Reitterelater, Peripontius, Tolphorea, Porthmidius, Melanotus, Cardiophorus, Dicronychus and Craspedostethus are described from
Israel, Jordan, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Lebanon, Croatia, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Oman. New chorological records for
many species of the genera Lanelater, Agrypnus, Lacon, Hemicleus, Heteroderes, Neopristilophus, Prosternon, Agriotes, Nothodes,
Reitterelater, Mulsanteus, Peripontius, Synaptus, Idotarmonides, Isidus, Melanotus, Cardiophorus, Dicronychus, Craspedostethus
and Plastocerus, and photos of the genitalia or the habitus of certain species are published for the first time. A Nearctic species,
Heteroderes nicholsi Notman, is recorded from Israel.