Species delimitation of colour polymorphic Cladophorus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from New Guinea
Author
Bocak, Ladislav
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-18
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journal article
32076
10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.6
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Ca50E5A5-B417-4000-B67D-5F6028Da9154
Cladophorus manokwarensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 12, 26
,
42
,
65–66
)
Type
material.
Holotype
. Male,
Indonesia
,
West Papua
prov., Manokwari,
Gn. Meja
,
200 m
(
A00393
,
LMBC
).
Diagnosis.
C. manokwarensis
is characteristic in the brightly yellow pronotum, an extensive black humeral part of elytra, and the brightly yellow posterior part of elytra (
Fig. 42
). Unlike
C. kailakiensis
, the extent of the black part of elytra is larger (
Figs. 41–42
). Additionally,
C. manokwarensis
has a robust, parallel-sided phallus (
Fig. 65
).
C. humeralis
is its sister-species (
Fig. 4
) and differs in the coloration (
Fig. 40
), wide antennomere 3 (
Fig. 10
), and the shape of the male genitalia (
Figs. 62, 66
).
Description.
Male. Body medium-sized,
13.1 mm
long, body dark brown to black, pronotum and posterior half part of elytra brightly yellow (
Figs. 26
,
42
), humeral half of elytra black, light and black parts of elytra clearly delimited (
Fig. 42
). Head small, with relatively small, hemispherically prominent eyes, frontal interocular distance 1.59 times maximum diameter; antennae long, reaching beyond three quarters of elytral length, flabellate, antennomere 3 wide, with lamella 2.15 times longer than stem, lamella attached to apical part of antennomere (
Fig. 12
). Pronotum transverse, 1.3 times wider than long at midline, lateral margins slightly elevated, frontal margin widely rounded, frontal angles inconspicuous, widely rounded, lateral margins straight to slightly convex, posterior angles almost rectangular, all carinae well-developed (
Fig. 26
). Elytra flat, slender, subparallel-sided, transverse costae well-developed, dense, regular, elytral areoles slightly transverse (
Fig. 42
). Phallus robust, parallel-sided, with gradually acuminate apex (
Figs. 65–66
).
Measurements.
BL
13.1 mm
, PL
1.88 mm
, PW
2.54 mm
, WH
1.5 mm
, Edist
0.94 mm
, Ediam
0.59 mm
, LE
10.7 mm
, antennomere 3: stem
1.05 mm
, lamella
2.25 mm
.
Distribution.
Western
New
Guinea
, Bird’s Head Peninsula, Manokwari (
Fig. 3
).
Etymology.
The epithet refers to the local name ‘Manokwari’, the
type
locality of the species.