Malthodes anadyomenae, Švihla, 2009

Švihla, Vladimír, 2009, New species of the subfamily Malthininae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the western Palaearctic Region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 191-216 : 208

Malthodes anadyomenae sp. nov.

( Figs. 14 , 34–36 )

Type locality. Southwestern Cyprus, Lemesós, Gorovasa.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ ZYPERN,W, Lemesos (Limassol) [= Lemesós], Gorovasa , 10.iv.2006, leg. F.Fritzlar [white label, printed]’ ( NMEG) . PARATYPES: 1 J, same data as holotype ( NMPC) ; 2 JJ 1 ♀, ‘ Cyprus, Limassol district, Pissouri , 1 km SE, 34°40´N 32°43´E, 100 m, flowering hills, 19.iv.1999, R. Constantin [lgt.] [white label, printed]’ ( RCSF) ; 1J, ‘ Cyprus, Limassol district, Mandria , 5 km west, 34°52´N 32°48´E, 700 m, flowering hedges, 18.iv.1999, R. Constantin [lgt.] [white label, printed]’ ( RCSF) ; 3 JJ 7♀♀, ‘ Cyprus, Limassol district, Kantou 2 km N, 34°42´N 32°53´E, 150 m, slopes near Limassol, 20.iv.1999, R. Constantin [lgt.] [white label, printed]’ ( RCSF, NMPC) .

Description. Coloration. Head black, antennae sooty, mandibles sepia. Prothorax saffron yellow, anterior corners and cross-shaped median longitudinal stripe sepia; the stripe not reaching posterior margin of pronotum. Meso- and metasternum and legs sepia; ventral part of abdomen sepia, sternites narrowly bordered with yellow. Scutellum and elytra sepia, each elytron with yellow apical spot.

Male. Head moderately elongate; eyes of medium size, slightly protruding; head across eyes approximately as wide as pronotum, temporal margins arcuately narrowing posteriorly; surface of head very finely punctate and yellow pubescent, lustrous. Antenna moderately exceeding abdominal apex. Pronotum slightly wider than long, anterior margin widely rounded; anterior corners obtuse, very slightly rounded; lateral margins moderately concave; posterior corners obtusely rounded; posterior margin protruding apicad, rounded; surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent similarly to head, lustrous. Elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Last abdominal segments as in Figs. 34–36 , last sternite ventrally with median longitudinal groove starting in emargination of penultimate sternite and reaching base of apical bifurcation. Aedeagus as in Fig. 14 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 3.1–3.4 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthodes anadyomenae sp. nov. is similar to M. lysosensis sp. nov., from which it differs by the more deeply emarginate last sternite with wider branches of bifurcation, longer median longitudinal groove present along the entire length of the ventral side of the last sternite, longer last tergite with laterally protruding inner portions, pair of protuberances at the base of the aedeagus, slightly longer laterophyses and slightly more emarginate ventral portion of the phallus.

Etymology. Αναδυόμενη ( Anadyómenē , rising up, from ancient Greek) is one of the attributes (epiteton constans) of Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love of ancient Grecians, who according to the myth rose up from sea spum at the coast of Cyprus.

Distribution. Cyprus.

Figures

Figs. 13–16. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 13 – Malthodes lysosensis sp. nov. (holotype); 14 – M. anadyomenae sp. nov. (paratype); 15 – M. cyprogenius sp. nov. (holotype); 16 – M. andreasi sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bars = 0.1 mm. Arrows refer to diagnostic characters mentioned in descriptions.

Figs. 34–41. 34–36 – Malthodes anadyomenae sp. nov. (holotype): 34 – last abdominal segment of male, lateral view; 35 – last tergite of male, dorsal view; 36 – apical part of last sternite of male, ventro-caudal view. 37–39 – M. cyprogenius sp. nov. (holotype): 37 – apical part of last sternite of male, ventro-caudal view; 38 – last tergite of male, dorsal view; 39 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view. 40–41 – M. denizlianus lesvosensis ssp. nov. (holotype): 40 – last tergite of male, lateral view; 41 – ditto, dorso-caudal view.