Penthicus freyi ( Schuster, 1937 )

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

Penthicus freyi ( Schuster, 1937)

( Fig. 39 )

Schuster, 1937: 79 ( Lobodera ( Discotus )); Kühnelt 1957: 78 ( Lobodera ).

Type material. Lectotype ( Figs 39A, B ), ♂ ( NHMB), designated here: “ Persia s. Elburs mts.s. Tacht i Suleiman Hasankif 10-1600 m 30.VI 36”, “E. Pfeiffer- München leg.”, “ Freyi ”, “ Discotus Freyi m. n. sp.”, “Frey”, “TYPUS” (red), “Sammlung Adr. Schuster” . Paralectotype ( Figs 39C–E ), ♂ ( HNHM): “ Persia s. Elburs mts.s. Tacht i Suleiman Hasankif 10-1600 m 30.VI 36”, “E. Pfeiffer- München leg.”, “ Paratypus 1937 Lobodera freyi Schuster ” (curator’s label) ; Paralectotype, one specimen ( NHML): “ Paratype ” [printed, label circular, yellow frame], “ Persia s. Elbrus mts. s. Tacht I Suleimah Hasankif 10-1600 m 30.VI 36” [printed], “E.Pfeiffer- München leg.” [printed], “ PARATYPE ” [printed, label red], “Brit.Mus. 1961-449.” [printed], “ Lobodera freyi Schust. [handwritten] det. H.Kulzer 195 [printed] 9 [handwritten]” . Three paralectotypes with the same geographical labels as the lectotype are deposited in NHMB.

Material. 1♂ ( HNHM): “ Persien Elburs Särdab. T.” ( Sardab River flowing through Hasahkif, Mazandaran Prov.) ; 1 ♀ ( HMIM): Iran, Mazandaran Prov., Alam-kuh massif, 10–12.viii.1972 (leg. G. Ledoux) .

Note. This species was originally included to the subgenus Discotus on the basis of widely flattened lateral sides of the pronotum. P. freyi has not granulation on pronotal lateral margins and full wings as representatives of Discotus . In fact it belongs to the subgenus Stonavus and the iners species-group. Interesting, that Schuster (1937) included a very close species P. similis described in the same paper to the nomynotypical subgenus.

Distribution. Iran (Central Alborz Mts).

Figures

FIGURE 39. Penthicus (Stonavus) freyi, habitus, details, labels. A = male, lectotype; B = labels of the lectotype; C = female, paralectotype; D = labels of paralectotype; E = head and pronotum dorsally, paralectotype. Images A and B courtesy Christoph Germann (NHMB).