Audisio Paolo, Cline Andrew R, Lasoń Andrzej, Jelínek Josef, Sabatelli Simone, Serri Sayeh
Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "C. Darwin", Sapienza Rome University, Via A. Borelli, 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy.
Zootaxa. 2017 Jan 9;4216(4):zootaxa.4216.4.5. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.4.5.
During recent expeditions in North and Southwest Iran, 10 species of Kateretidae and Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) were found. One species of Kateretidae, Brachyleptus bicoloratus Reitter, 1896, and three nitidulid species, Afrogethes schilskyi (Reitter, 1897), Stachygethes khnzoriani (Kirejtshuk, 1979), and S. nigerrimus (Rosenhauer, 1856) are recorded for the first time for the Iranian fauna (the latter is also a new record for Asia). Thymogethes ahriman (Jelínek, 1981) is herein resurrected to species rank, and two species, Thymogethes kassites sp. nov. and T. khorasanicus sp. nov., are described as new. An updated key to the known Near East and Afghan species of the genus Thymogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009 is also provided. Available and recently collected biological and distributional data, as well as short taxonomic comments, are given for the discussed species.
在近期对伊朗北部和西南部的考察中，发现了10种露尾甲科和扁甲科（鞘翅目）昆虫。其中，一种露尾甲科昆虫，双色短突露尾甲Brachyleptus bicoloratus Reitter，1896，以及三种扁甲科昆虫，斯基尔斯基非洲扁甲Afrogethes schilskyi（Reitter，1897）、霍赞尼扁甲Stachygethes khnzoriani（Kirejtshuk，1979）和暗黑扁甲S. nigerrimus（Rosenhauer，1856），均为伊朗动物区系首次记录（后者也是亚洲新记录）。阿赫里曼麝扁甲Thymogethes ahriman（Jelínek，1981）在此恢复为物种等级，并描述了两个新物种，卡锡特麝扁甲Thymogethes kassites sp. nov.和霍拉桑麝扁甲T. khorasanicus sp. nov.。还提供了2009年奥迪西奥和克莱恩描述的麝扁甲属已知近东和阿富汗物种的最新检索表。文中给出了所讨论物种现有的和最近收集的生物学及分布数据，以及简短的分类学评论。
