A revision of the genus Ascelosodis L. Redtenbacher, 1868 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Edrotini) of Pamir

Abstract

A taxonomic review of the genus Ascelosodis L. Redtenbacher, 1868 (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Edrotini) of Pamir is given. The tribal placement of the genus is corrected (not Tentyriini as in Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera 2008 and not Erymetopini as in Chinese revisions). Two species of the genus are known from Pamir: A. concinna Bates, 1879 (name is corrected from masculine to feminine) from Eastern Pamir: Tajikistan, Afghanistan (new record) and China (new record) and A. abdurakhmanovi sp. n. from Western Pamir (Tajikistan). The new species differs from A. concinna by the body being completely setose ventrally and bare dorsally, mentum with transverse line of 10 long yellowish setae, form of pronotum, setose trochanters, and pro- and mesotibiae not fossorial, narrow. A redescription of A. concinna and a map of the distribution of both species are given.

Keywords

• Coleoptera
• Tenebrionidae
• Ascelosodis
• revision
• new species
• Pamir