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Vol. 51 No. 4, 2012
Negastriinae Studies: Species of the Genus Arhaphes Candèze, 1860 (Insecta:
Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Rainer
Schimmel1 and Dariusz Tarnawski2,*
1Wiesenstraße
6, D-66957 Vinningen, Germany. E-mail:rainer.schimmel@gmx.de
2Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy,
University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63-77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland
Rainer Schimmel and Dariusz Tarnawski (2012) Species of the genus Arhaphes Candèze, 1860 are revised,
3 new species are described and illustrated, new records of known
species of this genus are given, a key to the species of the genus is
provided, and new nomenclatural combinations for 10 species are
proposed. The new species are Arhaphes
krali sp. nov., A. longicollis sp. nov., and A. rugosicollis sp. nov. New
nomenclatural combinations include A.
biguttatus (Candèze, 1893) comb. nov., A. erythrurus (Schwarz, 1902) comb.
nov., A. cyaneus (Schwarz,
1902) comb. nov., A. gestroi
(Candèze, 1892) comb. nov., A.
luteipes (Candèze, 1896) comb. nov., A. minusculus (Candèze, 1878) comb.
nov., A. nigriceps (Candèze,
1880) comb. nov., A. opacus
(Candèze, 1878) comb. nov., A.
plumbeus (Schwarz, 1902) comb. nov., and A. ruficollis (Candèze, 1892) comb.
nov.
Key words: Revision, New species, New records,
Keys to species, Asia.
*Correspondence: E-mail:elater53@gmail.com
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