A review of the genus Laemoglyptus from the Himalayas (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)
Author
Švihla, Vladimír
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: vladimir _ svihla @ nm. cz
Author
Kopetz, Andreas
Im Semmichbache 14, D- 99334 Eischleben, Germany; e-mail: andreas. kopetz @ t-online. de
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2012
2012-12-17
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2
443
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.5331595
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Laemoglyptus bilyi
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 14–15
)
Type
locality.
Nepal
, Eastern Region, Hille,
2000 m
a.s.l.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
(
NMPC
):♂, “E
Nepal
,
Hille
,
2000 m
,
28.4.1988
,
S. Bílý
lgt. [white label, handwritten]”
.
PARATYPES
(
NMPC
,
AKEG
): same label data, 9 ♂♂
;
“E
Nepal
,
28.4.1988
, Hille,
S. Bílý
leg. [white label, printed]”, 1 ♂
12 ♀♀
.
Description.
Coloration. Head including antennae black, mandibles ferrugineous. Prothorax orange to terra-cotta. Elytra sooty to black, legs sepia to black, knees sometimes paler. Meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sepia.
Male. Eyes big and strongly protruding, head across eyes moderately narrower than pronotum, antennae moderately exceeding three fourths of elytral length, projections of antennomeres 3–10 more or less, but always distinctly longer than each antennomere. Surface of head very finely and very sparsely punctate, with fine, sparse, recumbent grey pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum similar as that in
Fig. 2
, posterolateral emarginations open. Surface of pronotum like that of head punctate, finely and sparsely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, moderately dilated posteriorly, elytral venation slightly developed. Surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose, with fine, grey, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in
Figs. 14–15
.
Figs. 14–17. Aedeagus, ventral (14, 16) and oblique lateral aspects (15, 17). 14–15 –
Laemoglyptus bilyi
sp. nov.
; 16–17 –
L. chimakothiensis
sp. nov.
Female. Eyes much smaller and less protruding than in male, antennae serrate, reaching ca. one third of elytral length.
Length (both sexes). 5.8–7.0 mm.
Differential diagnosis.
Laemoglyptus bilyi
sp. nov.
is very similar to
L. chimakothiensis
sp. nov.
, from which it differs by the apically deeply emarginated and more curved apices of the fused parameres (cf.
Figs. 14–17
).
Etymology.
Dedicated to its collector, Svatopluk Bílý (NMPC).
Distribution.
Nepal
: Eastern Region.