Micropodabrus kopetzi, Švihla, 2005

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 75-76

Micropodabrus kopetzi sp. nov.

( Figs. 6-8 , 12 )

Type locality. Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Doi Pha Hom Pok.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ Thailand N, Prov. Chiang Mai, Doi Pha Hom Pok , 23.-29.i.2004, leg. T. Ihle’ ( NMEG) . PARATYPES: same data, 7 JJ ( AKKG, NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head honey yellow, between and behind eyes with pair of arcuate, longitudinal sooty spots, mouthparts sienna to sooty, first two antennomeres honey yellow with sooty tips, rest of antennomeres sooty with paler bases. Prothorax honey yellow, with wide median longitudinal sooty stripe with sinuate lateral sides, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of pronotum, posterior and sometimes also anterior pronotal corners very narrowly sooty. Mesosternum honey yellow, metasternum sooty, abdomen honey yellow, its ventral part with median longitudinal darkened stripe. Legs honey yellow, apices of femora and tibiae sooty, middle portion of fore and middle tibiae also sooty, tarsi honey yellow, tarsomeres 1-3 with sooty tips. Scutellum honey yellow, elytra honey yellow mottled with sienna.

Male. Eyes large and strongly protruding, head across eyes moderately wider than pronotum, temples straight and convergent posteriorly. Antennae ( Fig. 12 ) reaching two thirds of elytral length, antennomeres 3-8 with longitudinal, sharply delimited, lustrous impression. Surface of head densely and very finely puncticulate, finely yellow pubescent, matt. Pronotum very slightly wider than long, its anterior margin nearly straight, anterior corners obliquely cut, lateral margins moderately diverging posteriorly, bisinuate, posterior corners almost sharp, posterior margin sinuately rounded. Surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent like that of head, matt. Elytra very slightly dilated posteriorly, elytral nervation not developed, surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose, finely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 6-8 . Female unknown.

Length J: 8.5-10.1 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Given the shape of the aedeagus, M. kopetzi sp. nov. is related to M. lineolatus ( Pic, 1924) from India (Darjeeling) and Nepal. However, M. kopetzi sp. nov. differs by the impressed antennomeres, lack of longitudial stripes on the elytra, narrower parameres and a wider bifurcation of the dorsal part of the aedeagus (cf. PIC 1924, WITTMER 1983).

Etymology. Dedicated to Andreas Kopetz (Kerspleben near Erfurt, Germany), who kindly passed me this species for description.

Distribution. Northern Thailand.

Figures

Figs. 6-11. 6-8 – Micropodabrus kopetzi sp. nov. 6 – aedeagus, ventral view; 7 – ditto, lateral view; 8 – dorsal part of aedeagus. 9-11 – M. kantnerorum sp. nov. 9 – aedeagus, ventral view; 10 – ditto, lateral view; 11 – dorsal part of aedeagus.

Figs. 1-5. 1-3 – Rhagonycha bimucronata sp. nov. 1 – aedeagus, ventral view; 2 – dorsal part of aedeagus; 3 – aedeagus, lateral view. 4 – Micropodabrus semifumatoides sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus. 5 – M. fissiformis sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus.