Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi
Author
Tvardik, David
Author
Bocak, Ladislav
text
Zootaxa
2001
2001-12-14
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journal article
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4618537
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Plateros kalamensis
sp. n.
Type material
:
Holotype
: male, S
Sulawesi
,
25 km
E
Mamasa
,
1100 m
,
119.28.39E
,
3.02.10S
,
2224
July
1999
,
Bolm
lgt. (
LMBC
)
;
Paratype
:
1
male
, the same data (
LMBC
)
.
Differential diagnosis
.
Plateros kalamensis
sp. n.
is very characteristic by the shape of male genitalia (
Figs 1, 2
). It shares with
P. milenae
sp. n.
eyes larger than interocular distance and differs from the later in parallelsided antennomere
3
(
Figs 21, 24
).
Description
. Body small, slender, parallelsided, black, covered with dense grey pubescence. Head small, eyes hemispherically prominent, eye diameter
1.13
times interocular distance. Antennae slender, reaching two thirds of elytral length, antennomeres almost parallelsided, with long, erected pubescence (
Fig.
21
). Apical antennomeres slender, weakly flattened. Pronotum
1.5
times wider at base than long at midline, frontal margin widely rounded, frontal angles very obtuse, inconspicuous (
Fig.
14
). Posterior angles acutely projected. Pronotal disc mat, with deep depressions at frontal angles, with two short keels at middle of basal margin, covered with long light pubescence. Elytra parallelsided, with fine, inconspicuous costae, covered with dense light pubescence. Male genitalia very slender, widened in apical part, internal sac membranous, exposed (
Figs 1, 2
).
Measurements
. BL
5.50 mm
, WH
1.22 mm
PL
0.71 mm
, PW
1.07 mm
, Ediam
0.40 mm
, Edist
0.36 mm
.
Distribution
. Central Sulawesi Province, Mamasa valley.
Etymology
. The specific name is derived from the name Kalama, a mountain village in the east of the Mamasa valley.