Penthicus oblongopunctatus ( Reitter, 1904 )

Penthicus oblongopunctatus ( Reitter, 1904)

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Reitter 1904: 164 ( Lobothorax (s. str.)); Schuster 1935: 21 ( Lobothorax ); Reichardt 1936: 144, 149 ( Lobodera (i. sp.), part.); Gridelli 1954: 287, 288 ( Lobodera ); Kühnelt 1957: 78 ( Lobodera ); Kaszab 1969: 451 ( Lobodera ); Kaszab 1970: 158, 160; Soldati 2009: 60; Grimm 2015: 315.

Type material. Lectotypus ( HNHM) ♀, designated here: “Transcaspia”, “Ahnger”, “ Coll. Reitter ”, “ Holotypus 1904 Lobothorax oblongopunctatus Reitter ”, “ Lobothorax oblongopunctatus m.” . Paralectotypus ( HNHM), sex unknown: “Transcaspia”, “Ahnger”, “ Coll. Reitter ”, “ Paratypus 1904 Lobothorax oblongopunctatus Reitter ” .

Material (only from Iran). 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ ( ZIN): Iran, Semnan Prov., Schahrud , 1.iv.1914, 22–24.v.1914 (leg. A.N. Kirichenko) ; 1 specimen ( HNHM): “ Belutschistan Coll. Zugmayer 1911” ; 1 ♂ ( ZIN): “ Khorasan, Sunny- Khane, 4–5.V.[18] 98 N. Zarudny” (Cyrillic Russian label; now Iran, South Khorasan, near Chah-e Zard , 32°00ʹ58ʺN, 60°24ʹ36ʺE according to the route of Zarudny’s expedition ( Zarudny 1903)) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀ ( HMIM): Iran, South Khorasan, Birdjand, 21.iv.1965 ( Saf. ) ; 3 specimens ( HNHM): Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Prov. , NW of Iranshahr, dry river bed [originally “trockental”], 31.iii.1954 (uncknown collector) ; 1 ♂ ( HNHM): Iran, Iranshahr , 14.IV.1965 (uncknown collector) ; 1 specimen ( NHML): “9674” [handwritten on a car with the specimen], “Underbush desert at Kuhpa nr Isfahan PERSIA. 17.11.34 Coll. H.E.J. Biggs. ” [handwritten; month can also read ‘ii’; now Iran, Isfahan Prov., Kuhpayeh , 32°42′50″N, 52°26′11″E], “ L. oblongopunctatus Rtt ex ... K.G.B.” [handwritten, in part illegible] GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Israel (ZIN), Jordan, Arabian Peninsula ( Gridelli 1954, Kaszab 1982, Soldati 2009), Turkmenistan (Kopetdag), Eastern Iran (from North Khorasan and Semnan to Sistan and Baluchistan provinces) (based on ZIN collection), Afghanistan ( Kaszab, 1970), Qatar ( Soldati 2009). Records for Pakistan ( Grimm 2015, Iwan et al. 2020) probably belong to P. zhenzhuristi afghanus ( Gridelli, 1954) . The erroneous record from Iraq ( Reichardt 1936) belongs to Penthicus mesopotamicus sp. nov.