Agapanthia petranyi sp. n. is described from Kordestan, Askaran (Iran). It is closely related to A. lais (Reiche et Saulcy, 1858). With 13 figures

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A new species of Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 from Iran (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

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Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014F O L I A  E N T O M O L O G I C A  H U N G A R I C AR OVARTAN I KÖZL E M É N Y E KVolume 75 2014 pp. 63–68DOI: 10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2014.75.63A new species of Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 from Iran (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)*A. KotánH-1142 Budapest, Komáromi út 5/a, Hungary. E-mail: helladia@gmail.comAbstract – Agapanthia petranyi sp. n. is described from Kordestan, Askaran (Iran). It is closely related to A. lais (Reiche et Saulcy, 1858). With 13 fi gures.Key words – New species, Agapanthia, Lamiinae, Cerambycidae, IranINTRODUCTIONTh e Palaearctic genus Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 comprises more than 70 species distributed in Europe, Africa and Asia (Sama & Löbl 2010).Previous authors regarded the genus in diff erent ways. Pesarini & Sabba-dini (2004) separated three new genera and six new subgenera based on mor-phological similarities. Sama (2008) reviewed the genus, and proposed a new systematic division. According to him, Agapanthia is now divided into two sub-genera: Agapanthia s. str. and Epoptes Gistel, 1857, and the subgenus Agapanthia includes three groups: Agapanthia cardui/suturalis group, Agapanthia violacea group and Agapanthia maculicornis group.In 2009 and 2010, Hungarian amateur entomologists collected specimens of a formerly unknown species of Agapanthia in the west of Iran. Th e new species belongs to Agapanthia violacea group.Th e group includes the species listed below (Sama & Löbl 2010, Sama et al. 2010, Rapuzzi & Sama 2012, Rapuzzi et al. 2013). Abbrevitations of the countries: E = Europe, AB = Azerbaijan, AL = Albania, AU = Austria, AR = Armenia, BE = Belgium, BU = Bulgaria, CR = Croatia, CT = Russia (Central European Territory), CZ = Czech Republic, FR = France, GE = Germany, GG = Georgia, GR = Greece, HU = Hungary, IT = Italy, LA = Latvia, LU = Luxemburg, * Th e paper is dedicated to Dr László Móczár, doyen of the Hungarian hymenopterists, celebrating his 100th birthday.A. Kotán64Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014MC = Macedonia, MD = Moldavia, NL = Th e Netherlands, NT = Russia: North European Territory, PL = Poland, PT = Portugal, RO = Romania, SK = Slovakia, SL = Slovenia, SP = Spain, ST = Russia (South European Territory), SZ = Switzerland, TR = Turkey, UK = Ukraine, YU = Serbia and Montenegro. A = Asia, CY = Cyprus, IN = Iran, IS = Israel, IQ = Iraq, JO = Jordan, KI = Kyrgyzstan, KZ = Kazakhstan, LE = Lebanon, SY = Syria, TD = Tajikistan, TM = Turkmenistan, TR = Turkey, UZ = Uzbekistan (see Sama & Löbl 2010).Agapanthia amitina Holzschuh,1989 – A: INAgapanthia chalybaea Faldermann, 1837 – E: AB AR GG A: IN TRAgapanthia fr ivaldszkyi Ganglbauer, 1884 – E: BU RO A: IN IQ IS JO SY TRAgapanthia gemella Holzschuh, 1989 – A: CYAgapanthia incerta Plavilstshikov, 1930 – A: KI TD UZAgapanthia intermedia Ganglbauer, 1884 – E: AU CT CZ FR GE GG GR HU IT MD NL NT PL SK SP ST SZ UK YU A: KZAgapanthia izzilloi Rapuzzi, Sama et Kotán, 2013 – E: GRAgapanthia lais Reiche et Saulcy, 1858 – A: IS YO LE SY TRAgapanthia naciyae Rapuzzi et Sama, 2012 – A: TRAgapanthia osmanlis Reiche et Saulcy, 1858 – E: BU TR A: TRAgapanthia ozdikmeni Rapuzzi et Sama, 2012 – A: TRAgapanthia persicola Reitter, 1894 – E: AB AR GG A: IN TMAgapanthia pesarinii Rapuzzi et Sama, 2010 – A: LEAgapanthia psoraleae Sama, Rapuzzi et Kairouz, 2010 – A: LEAgapanthia talassica Kostin, 1973 – A: KI KZAgapanthia violacea (Fabricius, 1775) – E: AB AL AR AU BE BU CT CR CZ FR GE GG GR HU IT LA LU MC MD NT PL PT SK SL SP ST TR UK YU A: IS KZ TRAgapanthia viti Rapuzzi et Sama, 2012 – E: GR HU RO SK YUAgapanthia (Agapanthia) petranyi sp. n.(Figs 1–3, 6, 8, 10)Type material – Holotype male: Iran, Kordestan Province, Askaran, swept & singled, 35° 05’ 04.13” N, 46° 52’ 58.56” E, 1350 m, 18–19.IV.2010, leg. K. Szé-kely (Hungarian Natural History Museum). Paratypes, with the same data as the holotype: 7 males and 4 females (coll. K. Székely, Budapest); 2 males and 2 fe-males (coll. A. Kotán, Budapest); 1 female: Iran, Kordestan Province, Askaran, n. Sanandaj, swept & singled, 35° 05’ 04.13” N, 46° 52’ 58.56” E, 1354 m, 17.IV.2009, leg. G. Petrányi (coll. A. Kotán, Budapest).A new species of Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 from Iran 65Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014Description – Length 10–16 mm, width 3–4 mm. Body metallic bluish green, sometimes metallic purple.Male (Fig. 1). Head with deep punctures bearing long black erected hairs. Pronotum with dense punctures; punctures on disk separated by distance 1–1.5 of their diameter (Fig. 6); wider than long, widest at middle; with impunctate mid-longitudinal stripe, continued on head between eyes. Pronotal surface cov-ered with short white pubescence and numerous long black erect hairs. Scutellum rectangular, with few or without punctures, very shiny (Fig. 8); not raised from elytral plane. Elytra parallel-sided, rounded apically, deeply punctured, punc-tures becoming thinner toward apex. Elytral surface covered with short erect white pubescence and with long black erected setae that shortening toward apex. Antennae longer than body, fi rst three antennomeres with very deep and irregu-Figs 1–5. Habitus: 1 = Agapanthia petranyi sp. n., holotype, male, 2–3 = Agapanthia petranyi sp. n., paratype, female, 4 = Agapanthia lais, Reiche et Saulcy, 1858, male, 5 = Agapanthia lais, Reiche et Saulcy, 1858, female21 34 5A. Kotán66Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014lar punctures, from 4th to 11th with more regular and superfi cial punctures; cov-ered uniformly with very short cinereous pubescence. Antennomeres with sever-al long black erect hairs along inner side, and few on outer side at connections of antennomeres. Legs long, metallic green, sometimes metallic purple, with dense cinereous pubescence and with several long erected black hairs. Male genitalia as in Figs 10–11.Female (Figs 2–3). Very similar to male, but more robust. Antennomeres shorter. Front tarsus thinner. Female paratypes are normally metallic bluish Figs 6–9. Pronotum (6, 7) and scutellum (8, 9): 6, 8 = Agapanthia petranyi sp. n., 7, 9 = Agapanthia lais, Reiche et Saulcy, 18586 78 9A new species of Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 from Iran 67Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014green, similar to males, except for one female specimen with metallic purple col-our (Fig. 3).Diff erential diagnosis – Th e new species is closely related to Agapanthia lais Reiche et Saulcy, 1858 (Figs 4–5). Agapanthia petranyi sp. n. is smaller than A. lais, with a very light green colour. Main characters of A. lais are the following: Pronotum 1.2× longer than wide; disk with distance between punctures shorter than their diameter (Fig. 7). Scutellum parallel-sided, dull, with punctures and hairs (Fig. 9), raised from the elytral plane. Elytral sides convergent, especially in males (Fig. 4). Male genitalia as in Figs 12–13.Etymology – Th is species is dedicated to Gergő Petrányi, amateur lepidop-terist (Budapest), who collected the fi rst specimen of this interesting species.Biology – Th e new species was only found on or fl ying around Astragalus sp. (Fabaceae), its putative host plant. Th e larvae probably feed in the roots un-derground, and develop for one year. According to Rejzek et al. (2001), A. lais develops in Onopordum macrocephalum Eig (Asteraceae).Comparative material – Agapanthia lais, 12 males and 15 females: Syria, Prov. Homs, Crac Des Chevaliers, singled, 34° 45’ 15.50” N, 36° 17’ 41.66” E, 646 m, 7.VI.2010, leg. A. Kotán, E. Mizsei, T. Németh & N. Rahmé (coll. A. Kotán, Budapest).Figs 10–13. Tegmen (10, 12) and penis (11, 13): 10–11 = Agapanthia petranyi sp. n., 12–13 = Aga-panthia lais Reiche et Saulcy, 185810 11 12 13A. Kotán68Folia ent. hung. 75, 2014*Acknowledgements – Th e author wishes to thank his friends and colleagues Gergő Petrányi (Budapest) and Kálmán Székely (Budapest) for collecting the type series. Th anks are due to Ottó Merkl and Tamás Németh (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest) for help in preparing the manuscript; and to Tamás Németh for producing photos for this paper.REFERENCESPesarini C. & Sabbadini A. 2004: Osservazioni sulla sistematica della tribu Agapanthiini Mul-sant, 1839 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). – Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 145(1): 117–132.Rapuzzi P. & Sama G. 2012: New taxa and new records of longhorn-beetles from eastern Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). – Munis Entomology & Zoology 7(2): 663–690. 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