Penthicus fartilis Reitter, 1899

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 : 45-46

Penthicus fartilis Reitter, 1899

( Figs 35 , 36 )

Reitter 1899: 205; Reitter 1904: 162 ( Lobothorax ( Penthomegus )) Reichardt 1936: 143, 146 ( Lobodera ); Gridelli 1954: 285 ( Lobodera ); Kühnelt 1957: 78 ( Lobodera ); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 135; Medvedev & Nepesova 1990: 27.

Material (only from Iran). 1 ♀ ( HMIM): Iran ,, Tehran Prov. Gharaghadj [=Karagadj, near Varamin], 17.viii.1941 (Nava [unclear collector]) ; 1 ♀ ( ZIN): Iran, Golestan Prov., Khoshyeylāq vill., 36°49ʹ31.80ʺN, 55°20ʹ31.78ʺE, 5–16.v.2016 (leg. D.G. Kasatkin) .

Distribution. Turkmenistan: west of Kopetdag Mts., Iran: Golestan, Eastern Alborz. Medvedev and Nepesova (1985, 1990) interpreted this species as an endemic of Western Kopetdag in Turkmenistan. Kühnelt (1957) recorded this species for NE Iran without supported material. Our specimens are the first reliable records of P. fartilis from Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 35. Penthicus (Stonavus) fartilis, habitus, details.A = male dorsally (Turkmenistan, Kopetdag); B = female ventrally; C = female dorsally (Iran, E Elburs); D = head and pronotum dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prohypomeron.

FIGURE 36. Penthicus (Stonavus) fartilis, genitalia. A = aedeagus ventrally; B = male inner sternite VIII; C = spiculum gastrale; D = ovipositor ventrally; E = ovipositor dorsally.