Preliminary revision of the genus Sparedrus (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae) from eastern and southeastern Asia
Author
Švihla, Vladimír
Author
Dejean, in
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2007
2007-12-04
47
153
168
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5328199
0374-1036
5328199
Sparedrus karenorum
sp. nov.
(
Figs.1
,
14, 16
,
25
)
Type
locality.
Northern
Thailand
,
Chiang Mai province
, Doi Pha Hom Pok,
20°05′N
99°15′E
.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
: J, ‘
THAILAND
, N;
Chiang Mai
, N;
Doi Pha Hom Pok
,
20 05N
99 15E
,
23.-29.i.2004
, leg.
T. Ihle’
(
NMEG
)
.
PARATYPES
:
2 ♀♀
, same data as
holotype
(
NMEG
,
NMPC
).
Description.
Coloration entirely sienna (
Fig. 1
).
Male. Eyes large, protruding, head across eyes moderately wider than pronotum, nearly parallel-sided behind eyes. Frons between eyes moderately wider than length of antennomere 2. Last palpomere of maxillary palpus securiform as in
Fig. 14
. Antenna reaching elytral apex (
Fig. 1
), antennomere 3 almost four times as long as antennomere 2 (
Fig. 16
), antennomeres 3-10 more or less serrate with arcuate inner margin and with protruding inner lateroapical corner, antennomeres 6-11 more or less flattened dorsoventrally, more or less curved. Surface of frons and vertex punctate, covered by sparse, long, yellowish white semierect pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum one fifth longer than wide, very slightly cordiform, moderately ovally depressed in its posterior half, its anterior margin widely rounded, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins moderately sinuate, posterior corners obtuse, posterior margin rounded. Surface of pronotum punctate and pubescent like that of head, semilustrous. Elytra parallel-sided, their surface punctate and pubescent like that of vertex and pronotum, semilustrous, elytral nervation absent. Last tergite exceeding last sternite by ca. one third, apex with triangular emargination, apex of last sternite widely triangularly emarginate. Tegmen only moderately shorter than aedeagus, aedeagus as in
Fig. 25
.
Female. Frons between eyes wider than in male, almost twice as long as antennomere 2, antenna shorter, reaching ca. three fourth of elytral length, emarginations of both last tergite and last sternite shallower.
Length (J
♀
). 10.6-12.0 mm.
Differential diagnosis.
Sparedrus karenorum
sp. nov.
belongs to the
S. unicolor
species group as defined by
ŠVIHLA (2006b)
. It is related to
S. alesivani
Švihla, 2006 (
Nepal
)
, from which it differs by the absence of small, seriate, impunctate and glabrous areas on elytra and by the slightly wider and more parallel-sided aedeagus in ventral view (cf.
ŠVIHLA 2006b
).
Etymology.
Named after the Karens, one of the tribes inhabiting northern
Thailand
.
Distribution.
Northern
Thailand
.