Accepted 14.04.2021
ELATERIDARIUM Volume 15 (2021) pages 97-143 (17.05.2021)
New taxonomical and distributional notes of European species
of the subfamily Cardiophorinae (Coleoptera, Elateridae)
Josef Mertlik
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The taxonomic status of several species of the genera Dicronychus Brullé, 1832 and
Cardiophorus Eschscholtz, 1829 is treated herein. The identifications of Dicronychus
equiseti (Herbst, 1784), D. equisetioides Lohse, 1976 and D. luciae Laibner, 1985 by
Stanislav Laibner are revised. The following new synonymy is proposed: Dicronychus
luciae Laibner, 1985 = Dicronychus equiseti (Herbst, 1784) syn. nov. The species
Dicronychus testaceus (Fabricius 1792) stat. n. is newly treated as a bona fide species,
based on the morphological study of the male and female genitalia, especially aedeagus
and bursa copulatrix. An overview of other species from the ‚Dicronychus cinereus
group‘ known from Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Iran is likewise presented
herein. The atypical shapes of lateral sclerites of brusa copulatrix from south-Moravian
(Czechia) population of Cardiophorus dolini Mardjanian, 1985 are mentioned and
described. A correction of errors published in Mertlik (2011) is presented. The paper is
concluded with a Czech and Slovak faunistic survey of Dicronychus cinereus and
records of D. testaceus stat. n. from Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, Serbia,
Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Russia.
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