Anthelephila vishnumati, Kejval & Cz, 2010

Kejval, Zbyněk & Cz, Domažlice, 2010, Studies on the genus Anthelephila (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) 11. New species and records from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Oman, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 189-234 : 229-233

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5325463

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC805D-F175-FFFF-FE23-FDD7FEF025BA

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scientific name

Anthelephila vishnumati
status

sp. nov.

Anthelephila vishnumati sp. nov.

( Figs. 86–92 View Figs , 108 View Figs )

Type locality. Nepal , Bagmati zone, northwest of Kathmandu , Balaju , Vishnumati River vicinity, 1300 m a.s.l. Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ NEPAL oc. 1300 m Kathmandu NW, Balaju Vishnumati River, 17.VI.1999, leg. A. Weigel // Anthelephila sp. det. D. Telnov, 2001’ ( NKME).

Description (male, holotype). Body length 4.3 mm. Body piceous black; legs, antennae and palpi piceous black, legs at places with slight brownish tinge.

Head 1.3 times as long as wide, nearly evenly rounded posteriorly; tempora strongly narrowing posteriad, their posterior angles indistinct, rounded; base distinctly differentiated from short neck. Eyes medium-sized, rather convex. Dorsal surface glossy, somewhat uneven and corrugated anteriorly on frons, rather finely but distinctly punctate. Setation pale, subdecumbent, with scattered, moderately longer erect setae. Antennae only slightly enlarged in terminal third; antennomere X 1.8 times and antennomere XI 2.3 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.4 times as long as wide, distinctly narrower than head across eyes, evenly rounded anteriorly, rather moderately, shallowly impressed postero-laterally; pronotal disc nearly evenly shaped with very slight indication of median longitudinal impression in anterior half, outline of pronotum more or less convex in lateral view. Surface largely smooth, glossy, longitudinally corrugated dorso-laterally in posterior third, distinctly punctate dorsally; dorsal punctation similar to that of head; postero-lateral impressions partly smooth, with a few wrinkles extending from adjacent basal area. Setation as on head.

Mesosternum and metasternum simple.

Elytra 1.7 times as long as wide, conjointly rounded apically; humeri somewhat less prominent and protruding; postscutellar impression absent. Surface smooth and glossy, distinctly punctate; punctures simple, rather evenly spaced, about as coarse as but much sparser than those on head. Setation pale, generally moderately longer than on head, decumbent, with numerous erect setae.

Metathoracic wings fully developed.

Fore legs modified ( Figs. 86, 87 View Figs ); profemora with conspicuously long, narrow and slightly sinuous process, apex of profemoral process truncate and with a row/tuft of short stiff setae; protibiae flattened in apical half; penultimate tarsomere flattened and widened, with terminal tarsomere articulated dorsally at midlength in all tarsi.

Abdominal characters as in Figs. 88–92 View Figs ; tegmen trilobed apically.

Differential diagnosis. Anthelephila vishnumati sp. nov. can be easily recognized by the combination of black colouration and male characters. It seems to be rather isolated, having no close relatives among the species known to occur in Nepal, India and adjacent regions.

Etymology. Named after the type locality (Vishnumati River). Noun in apposition.

Distribution. Nepal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Anthicidae

Genus

Anthelephila

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