Penthicus pinguis pinguis 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 : 24

Penthicus pinguis pinguis Faldermann, 1836

( Figs 3B , 15 , 16 )

Faldermann 1836: 386; Reitter 1896: 168; Reitter 1904: 163 ( Lobothorax (s. str.)); Reichardt 1936: 144, 148, fig. 83 ( Lobodera (i. sp.)); Gridelli 1954: 286 ( Lobodera ); Kaszab 1970: 158, 160, taf. XXII, fig. 2 ( Lobodera ); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 135; Medvedev & Nepesova 1990: 27–28; Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko 2011: 245.

Material (only from Iran). 1♀ ( ZIN): “ASTRBD” (Astrabad, now Iran, Gorgan), “KARELIN” ( ZIN) .

Distribution. Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan (from Mangystau Prov. to Alakol Lake), Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan ( Skopin 1964, Kaszab 1970, Iwan et al. 2020, Bekchanov et al. 2023), Iran ( Medvedev & Nepesova 1990, Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko 2011).

Figures

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

FIGURE 15. Penthicus (s. str.) pinguis, habitus, details. A = male dorsally; B = male ventrally; C = female dorsally; D = head and pronotum dorsally; E = ditto, dorso-laterally; F = prohypomeron.

FIGURE 16. Penthicus (s. str.) pinguis, genitalia. A = aedeagus ventrally; B = male inner sternite VIII; C = spiculum gastrale; D = ovipositor ventrally; E = ovipositor dorsally.