Species delimitation of colour polymorphic Cladophorus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from New Guinea
Author
Bocak, Ladislav
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-18
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3
505
522
journal article
32076
10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.6
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Ca50E5A5-B417-4000-B67D-5F6028Da9154
Cladophorus riedeli
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 16, 31
,
48
,
75–76
)
Type
material.
Holotype
.
Male
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Pt. Moresby
,
Kailaki
,
Berem
,
09°26´S
,
147°33´E
,
550–850 m
(A00121,
LMBC
)
.
Paratype
.
Papua New Guinea
,
Pt. Moresby
,
Varirata N. P.
,
09°26´S
147°21´E
,
750 m
(
LMBC
).
Diagnosis.
C. riedeli
is the only species with uniformly yellow pronotum and elytra except for an inconspicuous dark patch in the middle of the pronotum and the infuscate area of elytra at the scutellum (
Figs. 31
,
48
). This species has a relatively slender, parallel-sided phallus (
Figs. 75–76
) and extremely long male antennal lamellae (
Fig. 17
).
Description.
Male. Body large-sized,
15.1 mm
long, dark brown to black, pronotum and elytra except very small dark patch at scutellum brightly yellow (
Figs. 31
,
48
). Head small, with small, hemispherically prominent eyes, frontal interocular distance 2.0 times maximum diameter; antennae flabellate, long, reaching to three quarters of elytral length if inclined, antennomere 3 with lamella 3.9 times longer than stem of antennomere, lamella attached close to middle part of antennomere (
Fig. 16
). Pronotum transverse, 1.5 times wider than long at midline, lateral margins elevated, frontal margin projected anteriorly, frontal angles widely rounded, lateral margins slightly concave, posterior angles projected, all carinae well-developed (
Fig. 31
). Elytra flat, parallel-sided, transverse costae well-developed, regular, elytral areoles slightly transverse (
Fig. 48
). Phallus slender, parallel-sided, with gradually acuminate apical part and projected slender apex (
Figs. 75–76
).
Measurements.
BL
15.1 mm
, PL
1.66 mm
, PW
2.48 mm
, WH
1.56 mm
, Edist
0.95 mm
, Ediam
0.48 mm
, LE 13.0 mm, antennomere 3: stem
0.85 mm
, lamella
3.3 mm
.
Distribution.
Eastern New
Guinea
, the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range (
Fig. 3
).
Etymology.
The species name is a patronym in honor of Alexander Riedel (Karlsruhe), a specialist in weevils.