identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03DB7E6FFFE7EF54E541727EFBBB0873.text	03DB7E6FFFE7EF54E541727EFBBB0873.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hedyphanes mesopotamicus Nabozhenko 2005	<div><p>Hedyphanes mesopotamicus sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs 1–4)</p> <p>Type material – Holotype (m) with labels: “ Mesopotamia, Mosul ”, “ Hedyphanes sp. det.</p> <p>Kaszab” (HNHM).</p> <p>Description – Male (Fig 1). Body black, moderately shining. Elytra with bronze sheen. Meso- and metaventrites, meso- and metanotum, epipleura and abdominal ventrites dark fuscous. Tibiae and antennae reddish fuscous. Length 6.9 mm, width 2 mm.</p> <p>Head widest at the level of eyes. Eyes large, convex. Genae widely rounded. Temples straight in dorsal view. Lateral margin of head at the junction of gena and clypeus widely emarginate. Frons weakly convex. Head with shallow transverse depression along frontoclypeal suture. Anterior margin of clypeus straight. Punctation of head coarse, moderately dense (intervals between punctures on frons subequal to puncture diameter). Antennae long, with 3 apical segments extending beyond base of pronotum.</p> <p>Pronotum 1.06 as long as wide, widest slightly anterior from middle. Pronotum weakly convex, slightly rounded at sides; anterior and posterior angles slightly obtuse, widely rounded. All sides of pronotum not margined (slightly margined only near anterior and posterior angles). Punctation on centre of pronotal disc coarse and moderately dense (spaces between punctures subequal to puncture diameter); punctation on margins finer and sparser. Propleura smooth, with sparse round punctures.</p> <p>Elytra very convex, smooth; strial punctures very small, round, barely visible; interstriae flat, with fine and sparse punctation; punctures on interstriae larger than in striae. Humeral angles absent. Epipleura smooth, without microsculpture, not reaching to elytral apex. Meso- and metasterna with fine and sparse punctation.</p> <p>Abdominal ventrites very finely and sparsely punctate, and with short sparse recumbent hairs. Aedeagus: Figs 2–3. Spiculum gastrale: Fig. 4.</p> <p>Tibiae straight. Dorsal side of hind tibia gently chopped. Anterior tarsi strongly widened (segments 1–4 transverse), with dense hairbrush on ventral surface.</p> <p>Diagnosis – This species is similar to Hedyphanes tagenioides FALDERMANN in MÉNÉTRIÉS, 1832 from which it can be separated by the metallic lustre of elytra, the reddish brown legs and antennae, the emargination of pronotum, the pronotal and elytral puncturation, the form of the parameres and penis.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB7E6FFFE7EF54E541727EFBBB0873	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nabozhenko, M.	Nabozhenko, M. (2005): New Synonymies And New Species Of The Genus Hedyphanes Fischer Von Waldheim, 1822 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Helopini). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51 (4): 349-355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12586003
03DB7E6FFFE6EF53E55971AEFE390831.text	03DB7E6FFFE6EF53E55971AEFE390831.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hedyphanes semnanicus Nabozhenko 2005	<div><p>Hedyphanes semnanicus sp. n.</p> <p>(Figs 5–10)</p> <p>Type material – Holotype (m) is with the following labels: “ IRAN, prov. Semnan, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=55.82222&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.253056" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 55.82222/lat 36.253056)">Byarjamand</a>, 1000 m. 55°49’20”E, 36°15’11”N, 25.IV.1999 ”; “leg. Gy. Fábián, L. Nádai, Z. Rahmé &amp; K. Székely ” (HNHM). Paratype (f) is with the following label: “ IRAN, Prov Semnan Byarjaman, 1000 m 25. IV. 1999 leg. N. Rahmé ” (HNHM). (The names [ZOLTÁN] and [NIKOLA] RAHMÉ refer to the same person.)</p> <p>Description – Male (Fig. 5). Body slender, black, with greasy sheen. Length 16 mm, width 6.3 mm.</p> <p>Head widest at level of eyes. Eyes large, convex. Ratio of head width at level of eyes to distance between eyes 1.6. Anterior margin of clypeus straight. Lateral margin of head at junction of gena and clypeus with weak emargination. Genae weakly rounded. Frons weakly convex. Head without transverse depression along frontal suture. Punctation of head coarse, moderately dense (intervals between punctures on frons subequal to puncture diameter). Antennae long, with 3 apical segments nis, ventral view. Scale bars = 1 mm</p> <p>extending beyond base of pronotum. Segments 9–11 filiform, flattened, asymmetric. Length to width ratio of segments 2–11: 1, 4.9, 2.4, 2.3, 2.3, 2.4, 2.2, 1.6, 1.3, 1.7. 3rd segment of antennae 2 times as long as 4th. Segment 11 1.3 times as long as 10th.</p> <p>Pronotum weakly transverse, widest at middle. Disc of pronotum strongly convex. Outer margins of pronotum emarginated only near angles. All margins of pronotum weakly rounded. Lateral sides of pronotum finely margined near angles; anterior margin and base very finely margined. Punctation of pronotum moderately coarse, diameter of punctures on the middle of disc about equal to distance between them; diameter of punctures on sides larger than distance between them. Propleura with coarse, not rasp-formed punctation; punctation on lateral portion sparser. Prosternal process weakly projecting.</p> <p>Elytra oblong-oval. Disc of elytra moderately convex, only narrowly depressed near suture. Striae of punctures weak; interstrial punctation almost the same as punctures in striae. Elytra with transverse wrinkles.</p> <p>Abdominal ventrites with fine punctation. Spiculum gastrale: Figs 6–7. Parameres: Figs 8–9. Penis: Fig. 10.</p> <p>Legs long; anterior and middle tibiae straight, posterior tibiae weakly curved inside in basal third. Anterior tarsi of male widened, its segments 1–2 transverse. Middle tarsi weakly widened, with transverse segments. All tarsi with dense rufous hairs.</p> <p>Body length 13 mm, body width 4 mm.</p> <p>Female. Body wider and more robust. Antennae shorter, when posteriorly extended reaching beyond base of pronotum with one segment. Elytra without transverse wrinkles. Tarsi not widened.</p> <p>Diagnosis – The new species is closely related to Hedyphanes besseri FALDERMANN, 1837, but differs from it in the more widened body and the absence of emarginations on the outer margins of pronotum. Except H. besseri, which has rectangular and transversal tarsomeres 1–4, only H. semnanicus sp. n. has transversal head-shaped tarsomeres 1–3. But H. semnanicus sp. n. also differs from H. besseri by the structure of 11th antennal segment, the later having more elongate and less asymmetric 11th antennal segment.</p> <p>*</p> <p>Acknowledgements – The author is much obliged to Prof. G. S. MEDVEDEV (ZIN), Dr. L. ZERCHE (DEI), Dr. M. Y. KALASHYAN (Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Erevan) and Dr. O. MERKL (HNHM) for providing the material. The author also thanks Dr. A. YU. SOLODOVNIKOV (Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA) for reviewing this paper.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DB7E6FFFE6EF53E55971AEFE390831	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nabozhenko, M.	Nabozhenko, M. (2005): New Synonymies And New Species Of The Genus Hedyphanes Fischer Von Waldheim, 1822 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Helopini). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51 (4): 349-355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12586003
