Callilanguria nigripes Huang & Yang, 2018

Huang, Zheng-Zhong, Han, Xin-Yu & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2018, A taxonomic review of the genus Callilanguria Crotch, 1876 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Languriinae), Zootaxa 4446 (1), pp. 97-110 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9432B326-6B50-4489-87EE-8A15A85B05D6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6491985
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BD242E3A-C370-9A42-07D0-95AEFD35FD2D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Callilanguria nigripes Huang & Yang
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Callilanguria nigripes Huang & Yang , sp. nov.

Fig. 8 View FIGURES 6–8

Type material. Holotype, male ( SNHCD): “Island Samar Baker \ 22289 \ ♂ \ 1924, 6 \ Callilanguria perlonga Typus \ Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden ( MTD).” The name “ perlonga ” is an unpublished manuscript name from Heller.

Diagnosis. The apices of the elytra extend much further than the end of the abdomen. In the genus Callilanguria , only C. eximia Fowler, 1885 and this new species have such a characteristic. The new species can be distinguished easily by its pronotum lacking a metallic luster.

Description. Body length: 25.5 mm. Body extremely slender and parallel, head and prothorax red, antenna and legs black, elytra dark brown, ventral side dark brown. Club composed of the last five antennomeres, antennomere VII slightly broadened, triangular. Head and pronotum with fine punctation. Pronotum long and straight, lateral side nearly parallel. Base of pronotum not constricted, without basal fovea. Scutellar shield pentagonal, apex not acute. Elytra long and parallel, with fine punctation, elytral epipleura marked, apices of elytra truncated, without denticles. Apices of the elytra extending much further than the end of the abdomen.

Etymology. The name indicates that this species has black legs.

Distribution. Samar Island, the Philippines.