Anthelephila vishnumati, Kejval & Cz, 2010

Kejval, Zbyněk & Cz, Domažlice, 2010, Studies on the genus Anthelephila (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) 11. New species and records from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Oman, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 189-234 : 229-233

Anthelephila vishnumati sp. nov.

( Figs. 86–92 , 108 )

Type locality. Nepal , Bagmati zone, northwest of Kathmandu , Balaju , Vishnumati River vicinity, 1300 m a.s.l. Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ NEPAL oc. 1300 m Kathmandu NW, Balaju Vishnumati River, 17.VI.1999, leg. A. Weigel // Anthelephila sp. det. D. Telnov, 2001’ ( NKME).

Description (male, holotype). Body length 4.3 mm. Body piceous black; legs, antennae and palpi piceous black, legs at places with slight brownish tinge.

Head 1.3 times as long as wide, nearly evenly rounded posteriorly; tempora strongly narrowing posteriad, their posterior angles indistinct, rounded; base distinctly differentiated from short neck. Eyes medium-sized, rather convex. Dorsal surface glossy, somewhat uneven and corrugated anteriorly on frons, rather finely but distinctly punctate. Setation pale, subdecumbent, with scattered, moderately longer erect setae. Antennae only slightly enlarged in terminal third; antennomere X 1.8 times and antennomere XI 2.3 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.4 times as long as wide, distinctly narrower than head across eyes, evenly rounded anteriorly, rather moderately, shallowly impressed postero-laterally; pronotal disc nearly evenly shaped with very slight indication of median longitudinal impression in anterior half, outline of pronotum more or less convex in lateral view. Surface largely smooth, glossy, longitudinally corrugated dorso-laterally in posterior third, distinctly punctate dorsally; dorsal punctation similar to that of head; postero-lateral impressions partly smooth, with a few wrinkles extending from adjacent basal area. Setation as on head.

Mesosternum and metasternum simple.

Elytra 1.7 times as long as wide, conjointly rounded apically; humeri somewhat less prominent and protruding; postscutellar impression absent. Surface smooth and glossy, distinctly punctate; punctures simple, rather evenly spaced, about as coarse as but much sparser than those on head. Setation pale, generally moderately longer than on head, decumbent, with numerous erect setae.

Metathoracic wings fully developed.

Fore legs modified ( Figs. 86, 87 ); profemora with conspicuously long, narrow and slightly sinuous process, apex of profemoral process truncate and with a row/tuft of short stiff setae; protibiae flattened in apical half; penultimate tarsomere flattened and widened, with terminal tarsomere articulated dorsally at midlength in all tarsi.

Abdominal characters as in Figs. 88–92 ; tegmen trilobed apically.

Differential diagnosis. Anthelephila vishnumati sp. nov. can be easily recognized by the combination of black colouration and male characters. It seems to be rather isolated, having no close relatives among the species known to occur in Nepal, India and adjacent regions.

Etymology. Named after the type locality (Vishnumati River). Noun in apposition.

Distribution. Nepal.

Figures

Figs. 86–92. Anthelephila vishnumati sp. nov., holotype (male). 86 – profemur and tibia; 87 – protibia in a different view; 88 – sternum VII; 89 – sternite VIII in dorsal view (one half); 90 – prong of sternite VIII in lateral view; 91 – tergite VIII; 92 – apical portion of tegmen of aedeagus. Scale = 0.5 mm: A – Figs. 86–88, 91; 0.2 mm: B – Figs. 89, 90, 92.

Figs. 101–108. Anthelephila spp., body in dorsal view (males; holotypes in new species). 101 – A. lubopetra sp. nov.; 102 – A. maharani sp. nov.; 103 – A. pateva sp. nov.; 104 – A. sevciki sp. nov.; 105 – A. triungula sp. nov.; 106 – A. tryznai sp. nov.; 107 – A. umbratilis (Krekich–Strassoldo, 1928), Uttarakhand, Juido env. (ZKDC); 108 – A. vishnumati sp. nov.