Penthicus dilectans ( Faldermann, 1836 )

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 : 27-29

Penthicus dilectans ( Faldermann, 1836)

( Figs 3C , 19–20 )

Faldermann, 1937: 389, t. 8, fig. 2; Reitter 1896: 163; Reitter 1904: 161 ( Lobothorax ( Discotus )); Reichardt, 1936: 141 ( Lobodera ( Discotus )); Kaszab 1961: 116 ( Lobodera ( Discotus )); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 133.

Full references for the Caucasus up until 2010 see in Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011).

Material (only from Iran). 4 specimens ( ZIN): Iran , Khorasan (leg. N. Zarudny) ; 1 specimen ( ZIN): Iran , Khorasan, 24–27.XI (leg. N. Zarudny) ; 2 specimens ( ZIN): Iran, Khorasan, Ne-i-Bendan country (leg. N. Zarudny) ; 1 specimen ( ZIN): Iran, Seistan [= Sistan] (leg. N. Zarudny) .

Distribution and bionomics. This species is widely distributed from European part of Russia (Caspian depression) and eastern Turkey to western China and Mongolia; from North Kazakhstan to Afghanistan and southern Iran ( Reichardt 1936, Ren & Tang 2006, Iwan et al. 2020, Nabozhenko et al. 2022, Bekchanov et al. 2023). The species was recorded from Sistan and Khorasan by Reichardt (1936) and from Tehran by Kaszab (1961).

Subgenus Stonavus Reitter, 1904 , subg. resurr.

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FIGURE 3. Eyes of Penthicus spp. A = P. (Myladion) acuticollis; B = P. (s. str.) pinguis; C = P. (Discotus) dilectans; D = P. (Stonavus) iners.

FIGURE 19. Penthicus (Discotus) dilectans, habitus, details. A = male dorsally; B = male ventrally; C = female dorsally; D = head and pronotum dorsally; E = prohypomeron.

FIGURE 20. Penthicus (Discotus) dilectans, genitalia. A = aedeagus ventrally; B = male inner sternite VIII; C = spiculum gastrale; D = spiculum ventrale; E = ovipositor ventrally; F = ovipositor dorsally.