Apophylia oborili, Bezděk, 2005

Bezděk, Jan, 2005, Revisional study on African Apophylia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Part 4., Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 165-182 : 77-79

Apophylia oborili sp. nov.

( Figs. 23-24 )

Type locality. Malawi, Kahingina Forest Reserve, 70 km N of Kasungu.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ MALAWI centr., Kahingina / Forest Reserve , 70 km N / of Kasungu, 29.-30.xii.2001, / M. Obořil leg. [w, p]’ ( NMPC). The holotype is provided with

one additional, printed red label: ‘ HOLOTYPUS, / Apophylia / oborili sp. nov., / det. J. Bezděk 2005’.

Description. Body length of holotype 6.60 mm.

Male: Body flattened, parallel, densely pubescent, dull. Head yellow, vertex with large black spot not touching inner margin of eyes, mandibles with darkened apices. Pronotum yellow with three black spots (one median and two lateral). Scutellum black, elytra metallic green. Underside yellow. Legs yellow, outer margin of tibiae darkened, last two tarsomeres infuscate. Antennae yellow, all segments with slightly darkened apex.

Labrum transverse, laterally covered with several pale setae, anterior margin sinuate. Anterior part of head semiopaque, sparsely covered with long pale setae. Space between anten- nae with small groove. Frontal tubercles small, subtriangular, transverse, semiopaque. Vertex dull, coarsely and densely punctate, covered with short pale hairs. Antennae filiform, 0.85 times as long as body, length ratio of antennomeres 1 to 11 equal to 22-10-20-28-24-23-22- 20-18-18-20.

Pronotum tranverse, 1.75 times as broad as long, widest at anterior third, narrowed anteriad and posteriad, dull, densely covered with coarse punctures and pale hairs. Surface with feebly impressed median line and two large deep lateral depressions. Anterior margin concave, posterior margin almost straight. Anterior and posterior margins thinly bordered, lateral margins indistinctly bordered. Anterior angles widely rounded with distinct tooth, posterior angles obtusely angulate; all angles bearing one long pale seta.

Scutellum subtriangular with widely rounded apex, semiopaque with small dense punctures and short pale hairs. Elytra parallel and dull. Humeral calli well developed. Elytral surface covered with small and very dense, confluent punctures and short pale hairs. Epipleura distinct but narrow, disappearing before apex. Macropterous.

Ventral surface semiopaque to lustrous, finely punctate and covered with pale hairs. Last visible ventrite with deep subtrapezoidal incision.

Tarsomere 1 of hind legs robust, as long as two following tarsomeres combined ( Fig. 24 ). Claws bifid.

Shape of aedeagus as in Fig. 23 .

Female unknown.

Differential diagnosis. Owing to the robust aedeagus, A. oborili sp. nov. is similar to A. neavei sp. nov. However, the aedeagus of A. oborili sp. nov. is more slender in lateral view and not as wide in the apical part ( Figs 20 , 23 ).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector Martin Obořil (Brno, Czech Republic), a specialist in Buprestidae .

Bionomy. Unknown.

Distribution. Malawi.

Figures

Figs. 23-24. Apophylia oborili sp. nov. 23 – aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view); 24 – male metatarsus. Scale: 1 mm.

Figs. 20-22. Apophylia neavei sp. nov. 20 – aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view); 21 – last ventrite of female; 22 – male metatarsus. Scale: 1 mm.