Protapatophysis hindukushensis, Miroshnikov, 2020

KEY TO SPECIES OF PROTAPATOPHYSIS, BASED ON View in CoL ♂ CHARAC- TERS

1. Lateral tubercles of pronotum attenuated and sharpened, as in Figs 9–13 ............................................................. 2

— Lateral tubercles of pronotum subrectangularly protruded, as in Figs 14–16 ................................................... 4

2. Lateral tubercles of pronotum longer, as in Figs 10–13; pronotal disc with or without poorly expressed shiny area in basal part at midline, as in Figs 10–13; antennae longer, as in Figs 2–5 View Figs 1–6 ; apical part of both penis and tergite 8 as in Figs 18–21, 26–29 ....................................................... 3

— Lateral tubercles of pronotum shorter, as in Fig. 9; pronotal disc with a very well-expressed shiny area in basal part at midline, as in Fig. 9; antennae shorter, as in Fig. 1 View Figs 1–6 ; apical part of both penis and tergite 8 as in Figs 17, 25 ................................................. P. hindukushensis View in CoL sp.n.

3. Median longitudinal groove between upper lobes of eyes noticeably extends beyond the line connecting their lower margins; scutellum distinctly triangular, narrowly rounded at apex, as in Fig. 41 View Figs 41–44 ; pronotal disc with a less sharply expressed puncturation ..................................... ........................................... P. kashmiriana (Semenov) View in CoL

— Median longitudinal groove between upper lobes of eyes distinctly does not reach the line connecting their lower margins; scutellum widely rounded at apex, as in Figs 42– 44 View Figs 41–44 ; pronotal disc with a more sharply expressed puncturation ..................................... P. vartianae (Heyrovský) View in CoL

4. Elytra more strongly elongated, distinctly narrowed towards apex, as in Fig. 8; tergite 8 emarginate apically, as in Fig. 32 ....................................... P. montana (Gahan) View in CoL

— Elytra less strongly elongated, barely narrowed towards apex, as in Figs 6 View Figs 1–6 –7; tergite 8 widely rounded or subtruncate apically, as in Figs 30–31 ...................................... ................................................. P. kabakovi Danilevsky View in CoL

Acknowledgements. I am very grateful to Svetlana V. Andreeva (ZIN), Maxwell V.L. Barclay and Michael F. Geiser (BMNH) for the opportunity to study the museum material, to Sergey V. Murzin ( Moscow, Russia) who has provided some specimens from his private collection. I would like to express my sincere thanks to my wife Tatiana P. Miroshnikova ( Krasnodar, Russia) for having rendered great help in the preparation of pictures.