Species delimitation of colour polymorphic Cladophorus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from New Guinea
Author
Bocak, Ladislav
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-18
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3
505
522
journal article
32076
10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.6
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Cladophorus kailakiensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 11, 25
,
41
,
63–64
)
Type
material.
Holotype
. Male,
Papua New Guinea
,
Pt. Moresby
, Kailaki, Berem,
09°26´S
147°33´E
,
530–940 m
(A00122,
LMBC
)
;
Paratype
, male,
Papua New Guinea
,
Pt. Moresby
,
Varirata N. P.
,
09°26´S
147°22´E
,
700–800 m
(
A00176
,
LMBC
)
.
Diagnosis.
In contrast with distant relationships,
C. kailakiensis
resembles in the general colour pattern
C. manokwarensis
(
Figs. 4
,
37–38
). Both species have brightly yellow coloured pronotum, the extensive black coloured humeral part of elytra and brightly coloured rest of elytra (
Figs. 41–42
). The molecular phylogeny identified
C. mindikensis
as a sister species (
Fig. 4
) and these species differ in the elytral and pronotal coloration (
Figs. 25, 27
,
41, 43
) and the length of antennal lamellae (
Figs. 11, 13
).
Description.
Male. Body medium-sized,
10.5–12.9 mm
long, body dark brown to black, pronotum and substantial part of elytra brightly yellow (
Fig. 41
), humeral tenth of elytra black, other parts of elytra brightly yellow (
Fig. 41
). Head small, with small, hemispherically prominent eyes, frontal interocular distance 1.87 times maximum eye diameter; antennae long, reaching beyond two thirds of elytral length, flabellate, antennomere 3 with lamella 2.56 times longer than stem of antennomere, lamella attached close to middle part of antennomere (
Fig. 11
). Pronotum transverse, 1.3 times wider than long at midline, lateral margins elevated, frontal margin widely rounded, frontal angles inconspicuous, rounded, lateral margins slightly convex, posterior angles moderately prominent, postero-lateral carinae weak (
Fig. 25
). Elytra flat, slightly widened posteriorly, transverse costae weak, regular, elytral areoles slightly transverse (
Fig. 41
). Phallus robust, parallel-sided in middle part, apparently constricted basally, with gradually acuminate apex (
Figs. 63–64
).
Measurements.
BL
10.5–12.9 mm
, PL
1.5–1.8 mm
, PW
2.20–2.65 mm
, WH
1.30–1.54 mm
, Edist
0.99 mm
, Ediam
0.53 mm
, LE
10.6 mm
, antennomere 3: stem
0.9 mm
, lamella
2.3 mm
.
Distribution.
Eastern New
Guinea
, the southern slope of the Owen Stanley Range (
Fig. 3
).
Etymology.
The epithet refers to the local name ‘Kailaki’, the
type
locality of the species.