Amphicoma gandhara Nikodým and Sabatinelli (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae), a new species from Swat District of northern Pakistan, is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with related taxa, in particular with the most similar species, A. schneideri Nikodým, 2005

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Amphicoma gandhara, a new species of
Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from
Swat District in northern Pakistan
Milan Nikodým
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Guido Sabatinelli
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Amphicoma gandhara, a new species of Glaphyridae  
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in northern Pakistan 
Milan Nikodým 
Wolkerova 1261
25263 Roztoky, Czech Republic
Guido Sabatinelli
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Département d’Entomologie
1208 Geneva, Switzerland
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Amphicoma gandhara, a new species of Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: 
Scarabaeoidea) from Swat District in northern Pakistan 
Milan Nikodým 
Wolkerova 1261
25263 Roztoky, Czech Republic
nikodym@cbox.cz 
Guido Sabatinelli
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Département d’Entomologie
1208 Geneva, Switzerland
g.sabatinelli@hotmail.com
Abstract. Amphicoma gandhara Nikodým and Sabatinelli (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae), a new spe-
cies from Swat District of northern Pakistan, is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with 
related taxa, in particular with the most similar species, A. schneideri Nikodým, 2005. 
Key words. New species, systematics.
Introduction
The genus Amphicoma Latreille, 1807 as currently defined by Bezděk et al. (2005), includes 47 species, 
one of which has three subspecies. Most of the species are mainly distributed in East and South East 
Asia. The first comprehensive work of the genus Amphicoma by Endrödi (1952) provided an overview 
of known species with a key for their identification, including description of five new species. Medvedev 
(1960) presented a partial overview of Chinese species. Other new species have since been described by 
Petrovitz (1965, 1972), Drioli (1980), Miyake (1982), Nikodým (2005, 2007, 2009a, 2009b), Keith (2007, 
2008), and Chun-Lin et al. (2011). The latter includes an analysis of new character sets. The most recent 
key for identification of species by Nikodým (2005) divided the genus into four groups of species based 
on external characters of adult males for easier differentiation of the species. A checklist of Palaearctic 
species is provided by Nikodým and Bezděk (2016).
Recently, Mawlood et al. (2016) described Amphicoma hirani from Iraq – Kurdistan. One of us (GS), 
traveled to Erbil in May 2017 and October 2018 to examine the type series. However, the holotype nor 
any other specimens were available at the Museum in Erbil where they were reported to be deposited 
in the original description. In addition, one of us (GS) met personally Prof. Mawlood who was not able 
to provide any specimens that could be referred to the described species. According to the paramere 
illustrations in the original description, A. hirani probably belongs to the genus Eulasia Truqui, 1848 
but in this case, the apex of the scutellum should be rounded and not pointed as indicated in the A. 
hirani description.
Materials and Methods
All three specimens of the new species were kindly provided by H.-P. Tauzin who obtained them 
from a Pakistani entomologist with an imprecise collecting locality of “Swat”.
We added red labels with name of the taxon n. sp., HOLOTYPUS or PARATYPUS, names of the 
authors and year 2019. The genitalia of each male specimen are mounted separately under each speci-
men. Complete label data are cited using the following symbols: / = different lines; // = different labels.
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Amphicoma gandhara Nikodým and Sabatinelli n. sp.
Fig. 1–6
Type series. Holotypus ♂, Paratypus ♂#1 and Paratypus ♂#2, labeled as follow: white label, printed, 
“ex H.-P. Tauzin / collection” // white label, printed “PAKISTAN - Khyber / Pakhtunkhwa Prov., Swat 
/ District, July 2008, Arihta leg.” // red label printed: “HOLOTYPUS ♂ / Amphicoma gandhara n. sp. / 
M. Nikodým and G. Sabatinelli, 2019” //   (deposited in Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzer-
land).  // “PARATYPUS ♂#1” // with other data as the holotype in G.Sabatinelli collection, Prévessin, 
France. // “PARATYPUS ♂#2” with other data as the holotype in M. Nikodým collection, Roztoky, Czech 
Republic. 
Diagnosis. Amphicoma gandhara belongs to the “A. dubia group-species” (Nikodým 2005) based on the 
following characters: mesotibia with apical spur, antennal club more than 1.5 times longer than stalk 
and markedly out curved. The most similar species is Amphicoma schneideri Nikodým, 2005, having 
similar body length 14 mm, antennomeres 5–7 disc-shaped, elytra uniformly coppery green and terminal 
maxillary palpomere quite long. In A. gandhara, the elytra are rather dull with sutural angles right but 
with blunt angle while in A. schneideri elytra are shiny with sutural angles broadly rounded.
Description of the holotype (adult male). Body elongate, length (from clypeal anterior margin to 
apex of elytra) 13 mm, width across elytral humeri 5 mm (Fig. 1).
Color. Head from above dark green with irregular golden luster, pronotum black green with weak 
golden luster. Scutellum and elytra even darker, luster is irregular from golden green to dark purple. 
Pygidium yellowish brown without reflection. Antennae brown, legs black-brown, tarsi lighter brown. 
Vestiture. Dorsal setation yellow-brown, erect on clypeus and scutellum. Head setation longer, light 
brown and oblique toward apex. Elytra setation as long as on pronotum, irregularly inclined or erect 
and with solitary long brown setae in posterior quarter. Ventral setation yellow, legs setation light 
yellowish brown.
Head. Anterior margin of labrum slightly emarginate medially. Clypeus 1.1 × wider than long, lateral 
margins slightly rounded, anterior angles rounded, clypeofrontal suture fine but clearly distinct. Head 
strongly and densely punctuate. Clypeal punctation clearly weaker and not closely spaced. Antenna 
consisting of 10 antennomeres; 5, 6 and 7 disc-shaped; antennal club markedly out-curved, more than 
2 × longer than wide. Terminal maxillary palpomere long, slightly widened in the middle, truncate at 
the end, without impression and with several punctures in apical quarter.
Pronotum. Width 1.1 × length, widest medially, narrowing anteriorly. Anterior angles produced and 
90°, posterior angles obtuse. Basal margin markedly emarginate medially. Punctation dense and coarse, 
distance between punctures. With median longitudinal depression.
Scutellum. Triangular, elongate with slightly rounded apex, punctation similar to pronotum.
Elytra. Punctation finer than that of pronotum, slightly irregularly wrinkled. Posterolateral angles 
broadly rounded, sutural angles 90° but with blunt angles. Sutural margin distinctly raised apically 
from second third of elytra.
Legs. Protibia tridentate, mesotibia with apical spur shorter, less than half of mesotarsomere length. 
Basal metatarsomere 1.6 × longer than second metatarsomere. 
Aedeagus. Parameres asymmetrical with the right paramere larger than the left one (Fig. 4–6).
Relevant variability. The three specimens known so far show a remarkable difference in the integu-
ment color. Paratypus ♂#1 (Fig. 2) has the dorsal surface black violet and irregular golden luster. 
Paratypus ♂#2 (Fig. 3) has the dorsal surface black green and irregular golden luster. In Paratypus ♂#1 
the antennal club is markedly deformed, segments are narrowed and distorted apically. This feature is 
also known in other species of the genus Amphicoma.
Type locality. Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Swat District.
Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The specimens were collected in Swat, a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber 
Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Swat is renowned for its outstanding natural beauty and this region 
was also a major center of early Buddhist thought as part of the Gandhara kingdom. The new species 
Insecta MundI 0693, March 2019 • 3AmphicomA gAndhArA  n. sp.
is named after this ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom. Noun in apposition.
Remarks. The genus Amphicoma is known from Europe (Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece and Albania) 
and Asia (China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and Ryukyu Islands). The new location 
from northern Pakistan is disjoint from all known localities for the genus Amphicoma. This indicates a 
potential for more species to be found in the Himalayan region: Glaphyridae can be expected from the 
eastern part of India (Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram regions) or Cambodia.
For comparisons with the most similar species, we studied 47 specimens of A. schneideri from China: 
Sichuan, Guan Xian and Songpan and Shaanxi, Luoyang. The two species can be easily distinguished 
by several characters as indicated in Table 1.
Acknowledgments
We thank H.-Pierre Tauzin (Vanves, France) for graciously making available the specimens of the 
new species. David Carlson (Fair Oaks, CA U.S.A) and Denis Keith (Chartres, France) provided helpful 
reviews of the manuscript. We thank Stefano Ziani (Meldola, Italy) for his advice and Paul Skelley for 
the final editing of the manuscript.
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Anterior margin of labrum slightly emarginate medially Anterior margin of labrum straight
Clypeus with slightly rounded lateral margins Clypeus parallel sided
Clypeofrontal suture fine but clearly distinct Clypeofrontal suture slightly distinct
Head setation light brown Head setation yellow and clearly longer
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Figures 1–9. Amphicoma spp. 1-3) Amphicoma gandhara, new species, dorsal habitus. 1) Holotypus ♂. 2) Paratypus 
♂#1. 3) Paratypus ♂#2. 4-6). Amphicoma gandhara, new species, parameres. 4) Right view. 5) Dorsal. 6) Left. 7-9) 
Amphicoma schneideri Nikodým, parameres. 7) Right view. 8) Dorsal. 9) Left.
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Forsyth0693: 1–5 2019Amphicoma gandhara, a new species of Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Swat District in northern Pakistan Milan Nikodým Wolkerova 126125263 Roztoky, Czech Republicnikodym@cbox.cz Guido SabatinelliMuséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Département d’Entomologie1208 Geneva, Switzerlandg.sabatinelli@hotmail.comAbstract. Amphicoma gandhara Nikodým and Sabatinelli (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae), a new spe-cies from Swat District of northern Pakistan, is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with related taxa, in particular with the most similar species, A. schneideri Nikodým, 2005. Key words. New species, systematics.IntroductionThe genus Amphicoma Latreille, 1807 as currently defined by Bezděk et al. (2005), includes 47 species, one of which has three subspecies. Most of the species are mainly distributed in East and South East Asia. The first comprehensive work of the genus Amphicoma by Endrödi (1952) provided an overview of known species with a key for their identification, including description of five new species. Medvedev (1960) presented a partial overview of Chinese species. Other new species have since been described by Petrovitz (1965, 1972), Drioli (1980), Miyake (1982), Nikodým (2005, 2007, 2009a, 2009b), Keith (2007, 2008), and Chun-Lin et al. (2011). The latter includes an analysis of new character sets. The most recent key for identification of species by Nikodým (2005) divided the genus into four groups of species based on external characters of adult males for easier differentiation of the species. A checklist of Palaearctic species is provided by Nikodým and Bezděk (2016).Recently, Mawlood et al. (2016) described Amphicoma hirani from Iraq – Kurdistan. One of us (GS), traveled to Erbil in May 2017 and October 2018 to examine the type series. However, the holotype nor any other specimens were available at the Museum in Erbil where they were reported to be deposited in the original description. In addition, one of us (GS) met personally Prof. Mawlood who was not able to provide any specimens that could be referred to the described species. According to the paramere illustrations in the original description, A. hirani probably belongs to the genus Eulasia Truqui, 1848 but in this case, the apex of the scutellum should be rounded and not pointed as indicated in the A. hirani description.Materials and MethodsAll three specimens of the new species were kindly provided by H.-P. Tauzin who obtained them from a Pakistani entomologist with an imprecise collecting locality of “Swat”.We added red labels with name of the taxon n. sp., HOLOTYPUS or PARATYPUS, names of the authors and year 2019. The genitalia of each male specimen are mounted separately under each speci-men. Complete label data are cited using the following symbols: / = different lines; // = different labels.2 • Insecta MundI 0693, March 2019 Nikodým aNd SabatiNelli Amphicoma gandhara Nikodým and Sabatinelli n. sp.Fig. 1–6Type series. Holotypus ♂, Paratypus ♂#1 and Paratypus ♂#2, labeled as follow: white label, printed, “ex H.-P. Tauzin / collection” // white label, printed “PAKISTAN - Khyber / Pakhtunkhwa Prov., Swat / District, July 2008, Arihta leg.” // red label printed: “HOLOTYPUS ♂ / Amphicoma gandhara n. sp. / M. Nikodým and G. Sabatinelli, 2019” //   (deposited in Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzer-land).  // “PARATYPUS ♂#1” // with other data as the holotype in G.Sabatinelli collection, Prévessin, France. // “PARATYPUS ♂#2” with other data as the holotype in M. Nikodým collection, Roztoky, Czech Republic. Diagnosis. Amphicoma gandhara belongs to the “A. dubia group-species” (Nikodým 2005) based on the following characters: mesotibia with apical spur, antennal club more than 1.5 times longer than stalk and markedly out curved. The most similar species is Amphicoma schneideri Nikodým, 2005, having similar body length 14 mm, antennomeres 5–7 disc-shaped, elytra uniformly coppery green and terminal maxillary palpomere quite long. In A. gandhara, the elytra are rather dull with sutural angles right but with blunt angle while in A. schneideri elytra are shiny with sutural angles broadly rounded.Description of the holotype (adult male). Body elongate, length (from clypeal anterior margin to apex of elytra) 13 mm, width across elytral humeri 5 mm (Fig. 1).Color. Head from above dark green with irregular golden luster, pronotum black green with weak golden luster. Scutellum and elytra even darker, luster is irregular from golden green to dark purple. Pygidium yellowish brown without reflection. Antennae brown, legs black-brown, tarsi lighter brown. Vestiture. Dorsal setation yellow-brown, erect on clypeus and scutellum. Head setation longer, light brown and oblique toward apex. Elytra setation as long as on pronotum, irregularly inclined or erect and with solitary long brown setae in posterior quarter. Ventral setation yellow, legs setation light yellowish brown.Head. Anterior margin of labrum slightly emarginate medially. Clypeus 1.1 × wider than long, lateral margins slightly rounded, anterior angles rounded, clypeofrontal suture fine but clearly distinct. Head strongly and densely punctuate. Clypeal punctation clearly weaker and not closely spaced. Antenna consisting of 10 antennomeres; 5, 6 and 7 disc-shaped; antennal club markedly out-curved, more than 2 × longer than wide. Terminal maxillary palpomere long, slightly widened in the middle, truncate at the end, without impression and with several punctures in apical quarter.Pronotum. Width 1.1 × length, widest medially, narrowing anteriorly. Anterior angles produced and 90°, posterior angles obtuse. Basal margin markedly emarginate medially. Punctation dense and coarse, distance between punctures. With median longitudinal depression.Scutellum. Triangular, elongate with slightly rounded apex, punctation similar to pronotum.Elytra. Punctation finer than that of pronotum, slightly irregularly wrinkled. Posterolateral angles broadly rounded, sutural angles 90° but with blunt angles. Sutural margin distinctly raised apically from second third of elytra.Legs. Protibia tridentate, mesotibia with apical spur shorter, less than half of mesotarsomere length. Basal metatarsomere 1.6 × longer than second metatarsomere. Aedeagus. Parameres asymmetrical with the right paramere larger than the left one (Fig. 4–6).Relevant variability. The three specimens known so far show a remarkable difference in the integu-ment color. Paratypus ♂#1 (Fig. 2) has the dorsal surface black violet and irregular golden luster. Paratypus ♂#2 (Fig. 3) has the dorsal surface black green and irregular golden luster. In Paratypus ♂#1 the antennal club is markedly deformed, segments are narrowed and distorted apically. This feature is also known in other species of the genus Amphicoma.Type locality. Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Swat District.Female. Unknown.Etymology. The specimens were collected in Swat, a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Swat is renowned for its outstanding natural beauty and this region was also a major center of early Buddhist thought as part of the Gandhara kingdom. The new species Insecta MundI 0693, March 2019 • 3AmphicomA gAndhArA  n. sp.is named after this ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom. Noun in apposition.Remarks. The genus Amphicoma is known from Europe (Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece and Albania) and Asia (China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and Ryukyu Islands). The new location from northern Pakistan is disjoint from all known localities for the genus Amphicoma. This indicates a potential for more species to be found in the Himalayan region: Glaphyridae can be expected from the eastern part of India (Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram regions) or Cambodia.For comparisons with the most similar species, we studied 47 specimens of A. schneideri from China: Sichuan, Guan Xian and Songpan and Shaanxi, Luoyang. The two species can be easily distinguished by several characters as indicated in Table 1.AcknowledgmentsWe thank H.-Pierre Tauzin (Vanves, France) for graciously making available the specimens of the new species. David Carlson (Fair Oaks, CA U.S.A) and Denis Keith (Chartres, France) provided helpful reviews of the manuscript. 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Amphicoma spp. 1-3) Amphicoma gandhara, new species, dorsal habitus. 1) Holotypus ♂. 2) Paratypus ♂#1. 3) Paratypus ♂#2. 4-6). Amphicoma gandhara, new species, parameres. 4) Right view. 5) Dorsal. 6) Left. 7-9) Amphicoma schneideri Nikodým, parameres. 7) Right view. 8) Dorsal. 9) Left.6 • Insecta MundI 0693, March 2019 Nikodým aNd SabatiNelli 

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Amphicoma gandhara, a new species of Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Swat District in northern Pakistan

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