New or little-known species of the genus Eustra Schmidt-Göbel, 1846 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Ozaenini)
Author
Fedorenko, D. N.
text
Russian Entomological Journal
2019
2019-09-30
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.28.1.02
journal article
10.15298/rusentj.28.1.02
0132-8069
10919914
Eustra matanga matanga
Andrewes, 1919
Figs 7–9
,
32
,
35–36
.
Andrewes, 1919: 299
(
Sarawak
, Borneo); 1933: 348;
Deuve, 2001: 565
, 571.
MATERIAL.
2♂♂
,
♀
(SIEE) labelled:
Bali
Island
, near
Tamblingan Lake
,
8º15´S
/
115º06´E
, h=
1200 m
,
22–24.XI.2018
, leg.
D. Fominykh.
DISTRIBUTION. Borneo, Sumatra and Java; first recorded in Bali. The other two subspecies,
E. m. darlingtoni
Deuve, 2001
and
E. m. negrosensis
Deuve, 2001
are confined to the
Philippine islands
Luzon or Negros, respectively.
HABITATS AND HABITS. No data.
COMMENTS.
Eustra matanga
is currently recognized as a widespread oligotypic species that includes three subspecies, each defined by a distinctive right paramere, with
E. m. darlingtoni
being additionally different in a paler body.
The specimens listed belong to the nominotypical subspecies and they are very similar and very close to
E. posteroguttata
sp.n.
Additional small differences are as follows:
BL
3.25–3.4 mm
, body shiny pale brown, elytra each with an ill-defined to vague darker spot spanning 2/5 to 3/4 elytra; these spots widely separated from both each other and narrowly separated from reflexed lateral margins. Dorsal microsculpture distinct on on labrum, hardly taraceable on clypeus, otherwise missing; elytral aciculate microsculpture outside and partly including glabrous submarginal area.
PW
/
PL
1.55– 1.62 (1.59, n=3),
PW
/
HW
1.12–1.15 (1.13),
PLw
/
PL
0.28, sides sinuate in front of obtuse and sharp basal angles, subsinuate behind apical angles. Base barely narrower than apex,
PB
/
PA
0.89–0.93 (0.91). Lateral edge a bit more distinctly crenate, with 7–10 minute. Elytra slightly longer,
EL
/
EW
1.37–1.44 (1.42),
EW
/
PW
1.63–1.74 (1.70). Mesotarsomeres 1 and 5 shorter (TF2 1.10: 1.40, n=2); TF3 1.73– 1.82: 1.36.
Aedeagus (
Figs 7–9
,
32
,
35–36
) similar to those of
E. csikii
and
E. posteroguttata
sp.n.
: apex of median lobe toothed, right paramere subclavate, as long as left one, with apex obliquely truncate (
vs
. rounded in the two similar species). Internal sac with distinctive armature consisting of a cluster of a few apical sclerites.
Acknowledgements
.
I am very indebted to A. Taghavi- an (MNHM) and
Dr. K.V. Makarov
(MPSU) for the loan of material under their care and to
D. Fominykh
(
Moscow
) for donating specimens. I extend my cordial thanks to
Dr. Th. Deuve
for his kind answers to my questions about the
holotype
of
E. nageli
. This study was funded by the Presidium of the Russian academy of sciences, Program No 41 ‘Biodiversity of natural systems and biological resources of Russia’
.