Eniclases infuscatus, Bocek, Matej & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016

Bocek, Matej & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016, Species limits in polymorphic mimetic Eniclases net-winged beetles from New Guinean mountains (Coleoptera, Lycidae), ZooKeys 593, pp. 15-35 : 21

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.593.7728

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FCA515D5-45A4-4907-A39C-A65E7A79658A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF02A670-1C21-49A3-A7F3-5B7C35F494C8

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Eniclases infuscatus
status

sp. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Lycidae

Eniclases infuscatus sp. n. Figs 11, 35

Material examined.

Holotype. Female (BM0050), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Bokondini, 1300 m, Nov.-Dec. 1991 (LMBC). Paratype. Female (BM0062), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Elelim, path to Apalapsili, 600 m, Nov.-Dec. 1991 (LMBC).

Diagnosis.

Eniclases infuscatus has a unique color pattern among western Papuan Eniclases . The upper part of the body is yellow to orange and only tips of elytra and the posterior part of the lateral margins are infuscate. This species partly resembles in the coloration Eniclases tikapurensis , which is slender and pale colored (Figs 9, 11).

Description.

Female. Body length 12.1 mm, robust. Head brown, abdomen, meso- and metathorax dark colored, most of legs similarly colored, only trochanters and basal half of femora light brown; pronotum and elytra yellow to orange, only tips and posterior margins of elytra infuscate, transition between dark and bright parts of elytra gradual (Fig. 11). Head with small hemispherically prominent eyes, their diameter 0.79-0.84 times minimum interocular distance. Antennae serrate, antennomeres 3-4 triangular, antennomeres 5-10 almost parallel-sided (Fig. 35). Pronotum transverse, with almost straight lateral margins, elytra with weak, regular secondary costae and regular, often transverse, small cells.

Distribution.

New Guinea, Bokondini region.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to blackened edge of the apical part of elytra.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lycidae

Genus

Eniclases