Cautires arribasae, Jiruskova & Motyka & Bocak, 2016

Jiruskova, Alice, Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016, High diversity and endemism in the genus Cautires Waterhouse, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Malay mountain forests, with the descriptions of fourteen new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 219 (219), pp. 1-29 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.219

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3853405

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cautires arribasae
status

sp. nov.

Cautires arribasae sp. nov.

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Figs 5 View Figs 2–20 , 23 View Figs 21–38 , 43 View Figs 41–58 , 61 View Figs 59–78

Diagnosis

Cautires arribasae sp. nov. is one of the species with a brightly coloured humeral part of elytra and black pronotum. The species resembles C. alexae sp. nov. and C. kotatinggensis sp. nov. in general appearance and differs in the large eyes, the shape of the pronotum ( Figs 21, 23, 31 View Figs 21–38 ), and phallus ( Figs 59, 61, 69 View Figs 59–78 ).

Etymology

The specific epithet is proposed in honour of Paula Arribas, a colleague studying beetle soil communities.

Type material

Holotype

MALAYSIA: ♁, Pahang, Gn. Beremban, 1480 m, 4°27'51" N, 101°23'26" E, 6–28 Apr. 2013 (AJ0079).

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Paratypes

MALAYSIA: 3 ♁♁, 3 ♀♀, same locality data (AJ0058, AJ0059, AJ0062, AJ0064, AJ0066, AJ0078).

Measurements

BL 9.8 mm, PL 1.5 mm, PW 2.05 mm, HW 1.15 mm, Edist 0.5 mm, Ediam 0.68 mm, LP 1.67 mm.

Description of the male

Body slender, black, only basal fourth of primary and fifth of secondary elytral costae with reddish pubescence ( Fig. 43 View Figs 41–58 ). Head small, hemispherically prominent, eyes large, eye diameter 1.36 times interocular distance. Antennae flabellate ( Fig. 5 View Figs 2–20 ). Pronotum with 7 areolae, median areola complete, marked by sharp ridges, attached directly to basal margin of pronotum; anterior angles obtuse, lateral margins slightly concave, lateral part of pronotum strongly elevated, posterior angles acutely prominent, pronotal margins and costae covered with brown, dense pubescence ( Fig. 23 View Figs 21–38 ). Elytra parallel-sided, secondary costae well developed, transverse costae dense ( Fig. 43 View Figs 41–58 ). Phallus robust, slender in basal part, its apex obtuse ( Fig. 61 View Figs 59–78 ).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia: Pahang. Cautires arribasae sp. nov. is known only from the mountain forests in the Cameron Highlands.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Elateroidea

Family

Lycidae

SubFamily

Lycinae

Tribe

Metriorrhynchini

SubTribe

Cautirina

Genus

Cautires

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