Penthicus remotus Reitter, 1896

Nabozhenko, Maxim V. & Mofrad, Farhad Eshraghi, 2025, Progress in the knowledge of the genus Penthicus Faldermann, 1836 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) of Iraq, Iran and Pakistan with descriptions of 17 new species, Zootaxa 5573 (1), pp. 1-100 : 83-84

Penthicus remotus Reitter, 1896

( Figs 65 , 66 )

Reitter 1896: 170; Reitter 1904: 164 ( Lobothorax ( Stonavus )); Schuster 1919: 32 ( Lobodera (Stonavus) , in diagnosis); Reichardt 1936: 150, 151 ( Lobodera ( Stonavus )); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 136; Medvedev & Nepesova 1990: 28.

Type material. Lectotype ( HNHM), ♀, designated here: “Trans Caspi Eylandt”, “ Coll. Reitter ” (red font), “ Holotypus 1896 Penthicus remotus Reitter ” (curator’s label), “ Penthicus remotus m 1886” (handwritten by E. Reitter) . Paralectotypus ( HNHM), sex unknown: “Trans Caspi Eylandt”, “ Coll. Reitter ” (red font), “ Paratypus 1896 Penthicus remotus Reitter ” (curator’s label) .

Material. 1 ♂ ( ZIN): Turkmenistan / Iran border, Sarakhs , 1.iii.1932 (leg. A. Vlasov) ; 1 ♀ ( ZIN): Iran, Golestan Prov., Hajiabad , 21 km N Shahkuh, vi.1870 (leg. G.F. Chistoph) ; 1 ♀ ( NHML): “ Iran Varamine Karagadj (D) 17.ii.60 E.S. Brown 2294”, “Brit. Mus. 1961 641”, “NHMUK 013663802” ; 1 ♂ ( HMIM): Iran, Tehran Prov., Varamin , 25.i.1975 (leg. Djavaheri) ; 1♂ ( ZIN): Iran, Kerman, Megas country (leg. N.A. Zarudny) (now Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. , Mehrestan County, Zaboli (= Magas): 27°07′42″N / 61°40′20″E) ; 2♀ ( ZIN): Iran, Bushehr, 10–22.v.1927 (leg. Siyazov) .

Distribution. South Turkmenistan, Iran (widely distributed but the range is strongly fragmented: Golestan, Kerman, Bushehr) (ZIN), Afghanistan ( Kaszab 1970).

Figures

FIGURE 65. Penthicus (Stonavus) remotus, habitus, details, labels.A = male dorsally; B = male ventrally; C = female dorsally; D = female, lectotype; E = head and pronotum dorsally; F = ditto, dorso-laterally; G = prohypomeron; H = lectotype labels.

FIGURE 66. Penthicus (Stonavus) remotus, A = aedeagus ventrally; B = male inner sternite VIII; C = spiculum gastrale; D = ovipositor ventrally; E = ovipositor dorsally.