Ponyalis variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015

Fang, Chen, Yang, Yuxia, Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu, 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899 (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of six new species from China, ZooKeys 1203, pp. 325-354 : 325-354

Ponyalis variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015

Figs 1 , 5 J – L , 7 C, D

Ponyalis variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015: 14, figs 8, 15, 16.

Material examined.

China: 1 ♂ ( MHBU), Hubei, Qingtianpao , 22. V. 2019, leg. P. Wang ; 1 ♀ ( MHBU), same locality as the preceding, 11. VI. 2018, leg. P. Wang .

Differential diagnosis.

This species can be readily identified from all other Ponyalis by the combination of the following characters: pronotum black, red margins, elytra red (Fig. 7 C, D ); male antennomere I flattened dorsally, III long-triangular, lamellae of IV – X extended along whole length of corresponding stem and tapered laterally (Fig. 7 C ); elytra 5.0 × longer than pronotum, primary costae much stouter than the secondary ones in whole length, cells transverse (Fig. 7 C, D ); phallus widened at middle part and moderately projected distad at apical margin and <30 ° angle at apex in ventral and dorsal views (Fig. 5 J, K ).

Descriptive notes.

Male (Fig. 7 C ). Antennae reaching basal 3 / 5 length of elytra when inclined, antennomere I flattened dorsally, III long-triangular, 1.3 × as long as wide, with outer apical angle barely protruding laterally, lamellae of IV – X extended along whole length of corresponding stem and tapered laterally, 2.0–3.2 × longer than the corresponding antennomere itself, XI fusiform and 5.0 × as long as wide.

Aedeagus: phallus slender and 3.7 × as long as wide, strongly widened at middle part and arcuate at lateral margins, moderately projected distad at apical margin and narrowly narrowed at apex, with acute latero-apical angels, between which the distance much smaller than maximal width of trunk (Fig. 5 J, K ), almost even in width and weakly bent dorsally, truncate at ventro-apical 1 / 4 in lateral view (Fig. 5 L ).

Female (Fig. 7 D ). Similar to male, but body stouter, antennae shorter and reaching elytral mid-length when inclined, antennomeres III – V all nearly triangular, lamellae of VI – IX 1.1–1.7 × as long as its corresponding antennomere itself, XI fusiform and 3.0 × as long as wide.

Distribution

(Fig. 1 ). China (Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou).

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution map of Ponyalis in the world.

Figure 5. Aedeagi of Ponyalis klapperichi (Bocak, 1999) (A – C); P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 (D – F); P. nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1939) (G – I); P. variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015 (J – L). A, D, G, J ventral views B, E, H, K dorsal views C, F, I, L lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 7. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1939) (A, B); P. variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015 (C, D). A, C males; B, D females. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.