Platyderus lencinai, Anichtchenko, 2011

Anichtchenko, Alexandre, 2011, Contribution to the knowlege of Platyderus Stephens, 1827 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Spain, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (1), pp. 33-39 : 33-39

Platyderus lencinai sp.n.

Holotype: male, Riopar, Albacete, 22.X.1984, J.L. Lencina leg. ( MNCN) ; Paratype: female, idem. ( CAA) .

Body lenght 7,3­ 8,5 mm. Females with microsculpture of elytra escamiform, surface mate, smooth and shiny in males. Colour dark brown, sometime almost black; antennomeres, palpomeres, legs and epipleura of elytra a bit paler. Habitus ( fig. 2).

Head round, dorsal surface impunctate. Disc smooth, frontal impressions indistinct, shallow. Eyes moderately big, flat, moderately prominent. Labrum slightly emarginate anteriorly, with isodiametric micro sculpture. Antennae pubescent from article 4.

Pronotum 1,21­ 1,24 times as wide as long. Lateral, anterior and posterior margins beaded. Basal impressions long, moderately and irregularly deep, longitudinal, sublinear. Interval between basal impression and lateral margin convex and weakly punctured. Hind angles obtuse, more or less distinct. Disc slightly vaulted, midline distinct, deep, almost reaching anterior and posterior margin.

Elytra elongate, regularly ovalate, maximal width at the middle. Shoulders rounded, not denticulate. Basal bead complete; scutellar striae and scutellar pore present; elytral striae finely punctate, equally deep anteriorly and posteriorly, all reaching basal margin; intervals slightly convex, without punctuation. Hind wings reduced. Medial elytral pore situated in third striae.

Propleuron, mes­, metepisternum, metasternum and abdomen smooth.

Structure of the internal middle lobe of the male aedeagus is shown in ( fig. 9­ 12). Protuberances BLI and BLD symmetrical, endofalus located athwart to median lobe of edeago.

Etymology. Named after José Luis Lencina Gutiérrez, Spanish entomologist.

Differencial diagnosis. P. lencinai sp.n.