Malthodes paveli, Švihla, 2009

Švihla, Vladimír, 2009, New species of the subfamily Malthininae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the western Palaearctic Region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 191-216 : 212-213

Malthodes paveli sp. nov.

( Figs. 17 , 46–48 )

Type locality. Iran, Lorestān Province, Do Rūd.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ Lorestan [= Lorestān] prov., Dorud [= Do Rūd] env., 2.–3.vi.2005, Pavel Průdek leg. [white label, printed]’ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head sepia, narrow median longitudinal line between eyes and mouthparts rusty, antennae chestnut brown. Prothorax egg-yolk yellow, narrow anterior portions of lateral margin and incomplete, indistinctly delimited, cross-shaped median spot on disc chestnut brown to sepia. Meso- and metasternum and legs sepia; abdomen egg-yolk yellow, each sternite excluding the last one with pair of median sepia spots. Scutellum and elytra sienna, each elytron with egg-yolk yellow apical spot.

Male. Head elongate; eyes small, only moderately protruding; head across eyes approximately as wide as pronotum; surface of head very finely imbricate-punctate, finely yellow pubescent, matt. Antenna presumably not reaching elytral apex (antennomeres 8–11 missing in the examined specimen). Pronotum as long as wide; anterior margin very slightly concave, nearly straight, anterior corners rounded; lateral margins straight, very slightly converging posteriorly; posterior corners rounded, posterior margin protruding apicad, rounded; surface of pronotum sparsely and finely punctate and yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely and sparsely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Last abdominal segments as in Figs. 46–48 . Aedeagus as in Fig. 17 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 2.5 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthodes paveli sp. nov. appears to be similar in the structure of the aedeagus to M. denizlianus , M. kopetzi and M. andreasi sp. nov. It differs from these species by the slender, nearly parallel-sided last sternite and the presence of two pairs of very slender laterophyses of the phallus (cf. ŠVIHLA 2002).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Pavel Průdek (Brno, Czech Republic).

Distribution. Western Iran.

Figures

Figs. 17–20.Aedeagus, dorsal view.17 – Malthodes paveli sp. nov. (holotype); 18 – M. lycicus sp. nov. (paratype); 19 – M. besucheti Wittmer, 1970 (paratype); 20 – M. bucakensis Wittmer, 1970 (Gülükdağı). Scale bars = 0.05 mm.

Figs. 42–48. 42 – Malthodes denizlianus lesvosensis ssp. nov. (holotype), last sternite of male, ventral view; 43–45 – M. andreasi sp. nov. (holotype): 43 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view; 44 – last tergite of male, dorsocaudal view; 45 – last sternite of male, ventral view. 46–48 – M. paveli sp. nov. (holotype): 46 – last sternite of male, ventral view; 47 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view; 48 – last tergite of male, dorso-caudal view.