Penthicus zhenzhuristi afghanus ( Gridelli, 1954 )

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 : 25-27

Penthicus zhenzhuristi afghanus ( Gridelli, 1954)

( Figs 17–18 )

Schuster 1929: 236 ( Lobothorax oblongopunctatus ); Gridelli 1954: 287, 289 ( Lobodera afghana ); Kaszab 1960: 160 (as a synonym of P. zhenzhuristi ( Bogatchev, 1951)) ; Kaszab 1970: 161, tf. XXII, fig. 3 ( Lobodera (s. str.)).

Type material. Holotype, ♂ ( ZMUC): “3. Danske exp. til Centralasien Pirzada 18/5 1948 Afghanistan N. Haarløv St. 11.” [gray-blue, print, date and number of station handwritten], “TYPUS” (red), “ Lobodera (s. str.) afghana mihi det. Gridelli 1952”, “zmuc00020098” . Paratypus, 1 specimen ( NHML): “Belutschistan Coll.Zugmayer 1911” [printed], “ Bayer St. Mies.” [handwritten], “oblongopunctat .” [handwritten], “Sammlung Adr. Schuster” [printed], “Brit.Mus. 1961-449” [printed], “ Lobodera (s. str.) afghana mihi [handwritten] det. Gridelli 1952 [printed]”, “ Lobodera afghana Grid. [handwritten] det. H. Kulzer 195 [printed]”, “9” [handwritten], “ Syntype ” [printed, label circular, pale blue frame] .

Material (only from Pakistan). 1 specimen ( NHML): “ Belutschistan Coll.Zugmayer 1911” [printed], “533” [handwritten], “ Lobothorax oblongopunctat . Rtt.” [handwritten], “ Sammlung H.Gebien ” [printed], “ Lobodera oblongopunctatus Rttt [handwritten] det. H. Kulzer 195 [printed]”, “9” [handwritten] .

Distribution. Afghanistan, Pakistan: Balochistan: Bela, Kalat ( Schuster (1929), as Lobothorax oblongopunctatus ), Quetta ( Gridelli 1954, Kaszab 1970).

Subgenus Discotus Reitter, 1904

Figures

FIGURE 17. Penthicus (s. str.) zhenzhuristi afghanus, habitus, details, labels. A = male dorsally; B = male ventrally; C = female dorsally; D = holotype, male; E = labels of the holotype; F = head and pronotum dorsally; G = ditto, dorso-laterally; H = prohypomeron. I = sculpture of elytra. Images courtesy Alexey Solodovnikov and Anna Reinhold Larsen (NHMC).

FIGURE 18. Penthicus (s. str.) zhenzhuristi afghanus, genitalia. A = aedeagus ventrally; B = male inner sternite VIII; C = spiculum gastrale; D = ovipositor ventrally; E = ovipositor dorsally.