Craspedostethus ronkayi n. sp.

(Figs. 43, 43a, 95, 125, 172)

Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: KP, Chalt (36°15'N, 74°20'E), 1850 m, 11.VII.1998, G. Csorba & L. Ronkay leg., at light (HNHM). 9 Paratypes ♂♂ - same data as HT; KP, Barseen (35°21'N, 73°12'E), 900 m, 10.VII.1998, G. Csorba & L. Ronkay leg., at light; KP, Barseen, Motel Barseen, 1100 m, 11.VIII.2001, B. Benedek & G. Ronkay leg., at light (CPG; HNHM).

Diagnosis. This species, for the moment the easternmost known of the genus, can be compared to C. hirticollis Nemeth & Platia, 2014 from Afghanistan but is separated by the light colour of body, shorter antennae, and shorter and partially erect pubescence.

Description.

Male. Moderately shiny; entirely yellow-ferruginous with darkened shadings at base of pronotum, elytra, and around the scutellum; covered with dense, long, partially erect, fulvous pubescence.

Frons flat, anterior margin moderately thickened, arcuate, just protruding above the clypeus; punctures of double size, larger punctures are more or less regularly mixed with very fine ones, with short, shiny intervals.

Antennae not reaching the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrate from the fourth article on; second article subcylindrical, third subconical, subequal in length, taken together, 1.4x longer than the fourth; fourth to tenth subtriangular, on average less than twice longer than wide, the last one longer than the penultimate, subellipsoidal.

Pronotum 1.1x wider than long and widest at the middle, regularly convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base, sides arcuate, slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter short, truncate, slightly or not divergent at the extremity, with a fine carina directed forward; punctuation double; larger, deep and simple punctures are regularly mixed with very fine ones, with very short, shiny intervals.

Scutellum heart-shaped, just wider than long, slightly emarginate at the middle of base, impressed, with very fine punctures.

Elytra 2.3-2.4x longer than the pronotum and as wide as it, convex; sides subparallel in the first half then regularly tapering to the apices; striae well marked and deeply punctured; interstriae subconvex, very finely punctured.

Claws simple.

Aedeagus as in Figs. 43, 43a (length 0.72 mm).

Female unknown.

Size. Length 5.30-6.10 mm; width 1.68-2.00 mm.

Etymology. Dedicated to the Hungarian lepidopterologist L. Ronkay, one of the collectors.