Penthicus horni ( Schuster, 1922 )

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 : 50-51

Penthicus horni ( Schuster, 1922)

( Figs 40 , 41 )

Schuster 1922: 212 ( Lobothorax ( Penthomegus )); Reichardt, 1936: 144, 147 ( Lobodera (i. sp.)); Gridelli 1954: 286 ( Lobodera ); Kühnelt 1957: 78 ( Lobodera ).

Type material. Lectotype, ♂, designated here ( NMB): aedeagus and spiculum gastrale pasted on a paper plate, “Pers bor. Hubh. 19”, “ Horni ”, “TYPUS”, “D. E. M.”, “ Coll. Kraatz ”, “Sammlung Adr. Schuster”. Type locality ( Schuster, 1922): «Shaku» (now Shahkuh-e Sofla or Shan kuh-e Bala in Golestan Province).

Material. 2 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZIN): “Shahrud Persia” (now Iran, Semnan Prov., Shahrud), “k. Solskogo” (leg. S.M. Solsky), “ Penthicus horni Schust. det. Schuster ” .

Note. We don’t know what species was listed by Kühnelt (1957) under the name Lobodera horni from Qualeh- e Asghard to the south of Kerman. The presence of this local species in Kerman Province is highly questionable. Penthicus pazukii sp. nov. from Kerman Provice is externally very similar to P. horni . We are also not sure about the correctness of Grimm’s determination of P. horni from Central Alborz ( Grimm 2015); probably these specimens belong to P. flatilatus sp. nov.

Distribution. Iran (Eastern Alborz Mts.)

Figures

FIGURE 40. Penthicus (Stonavus) horni, habitus, details. A = male dorsally, lectotype; B = labels of the lectotype; C = male dorsally, non-type; D = male dorsally; E = female dorsally; F = head; G pronotum, dorsally; H = prohypomeron; I = head and pronotum dorso-laterally. Images A and B courtesy Christoph Germann (NHMB).

FIGURE 41. Penthicus (Stonavus) horni, genitalia. A = aedeagus ventrally; B = spiculum gastrale; C = ovipositor ventrally; D = ovipositor dorsally.