The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species
Author
Ho, - Z.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-18
4687
1
1
174
journal article
25190
10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1
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Kuantana menayah
Ballantyne
sp. nov.
Figs 14, 15
,
230−245
Types.
Holotype
male,
paratype
male, female.
MALAYSIA
. Sungai
Selangor
4 kms west of
Kg Kuantan
, no date,
R. Menayah
(
ANIC
)
.
Paratype
male Kg Kuantan
14.viii.1998
no collector (
FRIM
)
.
FIGURES 230−237.
Kuantana menayah
gen.
et
sp. nov
.
type male. 230, 232 habitus dorsal (232 slightly to side with right elytron pulled to side); 233−237 abdomen: 233 ventral. 234 dorsal, 235 right lateral; 236, 237 terminal abdomen tergites 7 8: 237 from beneath with aedeagus and sheath removed; 238 from above (left side of tergite 7 damaged in extraction). Scale lines are 1 mm.
FIGURES 238−245
.
Kuantana menayah
gen.
et
sp. nov
.
type male 238−240; paratype female 241−245. 238, 239 aedeagal sheath: 238 ventral; 239 dorsal; 240 aedeagus ventral; 241 habitus ventral; 242, 243 dissected abdomen: 242 ventral; 243 dorsal; 244 ventrites 6−8 only; 245 reproductive system including ventrite 6 with ovipositor beneath (styli to left of page and spermato- phore digesting gland, unlabelled, to right); arrowed is median oviduct plate. Scale lines are 1 mm.
Diagnosis
. 8.7–10.4 mm long; yellowish pronotum with brownish yellow semitransparent elytra which are black tipped (specimens are preserved in ethanol).
Male.
8.7–10.4 mm long. Colour: pronotum, MS and MN yellowish, elytra yellow with narrow darker brown edging to inner edge of epipleuron, and black apex; head, antennae and palpi black; venter of thorax pale yellowish brown; legs yellowish brown, tibiae 1, 2 slightly darker, darkening towards apex; tarsi 3 dark brown; basal ventrites yellow;
V4
pale brown across most of median area, with pale lateral margins;
V6
largely dark brown with paler markings at anterolateral corners and paired paler spots near corners; LO white;
V7
yellowish between LO halves; T7, 8 orange; basal tergites pale semitransparent with small brown markings at edges.
Female
. 11.3 mm long. Colour: as for male except for white LO in
V6
only and dingy yellowish
V7
, 8 which bear irregular darker markings.
Etymology
. The species is named for its collector Rajan Menayah with thanks.