Review of the generaDiplopherusa and Paracladiscus (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from Japan and Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Murakami, Hiroyuki
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2016
2016-11-15
56
2
725
741
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5307482
0374-1036
5307482
D9281F86-E19D-4EA5-8173-DAB15ED8703B
Diplopherusa yonaguniensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1
,
10
,
25, 31, 37
, 43, 44, 61)
Type
locality.
Japan
,
Okinawa Prefecture
, Yaeyama Islands, Yonaguni-jima.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
: J, ‘[JPN:
Okinawa
] alt.
70m
(light) |
Mandabaru-shinrinkôen
, |
Yonaguni-cho
,
Yaeyama-gun
|
24°27′31.77″N
122°58′31.31″E
|
2–V–2016
Hiroshi Ikeda
leg.’ (
EUMJ
)
.
PARATYPE
: 1J, ‘Sonai | Yonagunijima |
21. V. 1989
| N. Ohbayashi leg.’ (
EUMJ
).
Description.
Male
(
Fig. 1
). Head, pronotum, pterothorax in ventral view, and femora dark blue and moderately shiny; basal 1/3 of elytra yellow; antennae, apical 2/3 of elytra, tibiae, tarsi brownish-black.
Measurements (n = 2): EyW:
0.30 mm
; EyD:
0.70–0.72 mm
; BL:
5.87–6.37 mm
; PL:
1.55–1.73 mm
; PW:
1.13–1.18 mm
; EL:
4.32–4.64 mm
; EW:
1.40–1.43 mm
.
Head convex dorsally, with fine setigerous punctation; EyD/EyW: 2.37–2.40. Terminal palpomeres of maxillary palpi short and digitiform; those of labial palpi widely triangular, their length equal to 1/3 of width of apical margin of terminal palpomeres. Antennae (
Fig. 10
) longer than total length of head and pronotum combined; antennomere I swollen and bent; II compact; III–X biramous; XI flattened, fusiform. Approximate length ratio of antennomeres (n = 1): 2.3: 1.0: 2.8: 2.6: 3.1: 2.8: 2.8: 2.8: 2.8: 2.6: 5.6. Relative length ratio of rami of antennomeres III–X (n = 1): 1.0: 1.3: 1.6: 1.5: 1.5: 1.4: 1.4: 1.2.
Pronotum widest before apex, constricted in basal 1/3; surface covered with fine and rather sparsely distributed setigerous punctures; pronotal projections reaching to procoxal projections; PL/PW: 1.37–1.47.
Elytra elongate, mostly parallel-sided, widest at humeri, large and deep punctation arranged in rows of punctures not extended to apex; intervals slightly smaller than puncture diameter and with pubescence; EL/EW: 3.09–3.26, EL/PL: 2.69–2.79, EW/PW: 1.21–1.24.
Unguis with basal denticles; metatibiae apically dilated to near apex, thence weakly nar- rowed, densely covered with pubescence on posterior inner surface.
Pygidium (
Fig. 25
) rounded posteriorly; pygidial struts anteriorly extended. Sternite VIII (
Fig. 31
) semicircular, weakly pigmented in middle. Spicular fork (
Fig. 37
) with intraspicular plate.
Connecting membrane between tegmen and phallus with fine spines (Figs 43–44); tegmen shorter than phallus; phallobasic struts developed; phallobasic apodeme slightly longer than phallobase.
Female
.
Unknown.
Differential diagnosis.
The new species is similar to
D. kitamurai
, but is distinguished by the following characters: punctation of pronotum sparse; apical half of elytra black; EyD/EyW: 2.40; tibiae brownish black and rather elongate; male pygidial struts extended anteriorly; abdominal sternite VIII semicircular in male.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the
type
locality, Yonaguni-jima.
Distribution.
Japan
:
Okinawa Prefecture
: Yaeyama Islands: Yonaguni-jima (
Fig. 61
).