New species and new records of Ptomaphaginus Portevin from the Sunda region, Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae)
Author
Schilthuizen, Menno
Author
Perreau, Michel
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Zool. Med. Leiden
2008
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http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3576287
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Ptomaphaginus bryantioides
spec. nov.
(
figs 20-21
).
Type material.—
Holotype
♂
:
Malaysia
:
Sabah
:
Danum
Valley
Field Centre
(
60 km
WSW of Lahad Datu
),
5 º00’N
117º50’E
,
15.v.2000
,
pitfall
with chicken, leg.
J. de Roode
(
BOR
)
.
Paratypes
, same collection data as
holotype
:
2 ♂♂
,
9 ♀♀
(in
BOR
)
;
same locality as
holotype
,
22-27.ix.2000
,
pitfall
with human dung, leg.
M. Schilthuizen
:
2 ♂♂
1 ♀
(
BOR
)
;
Malaysia
:
Sabah
:
Kiansom
(
20 km
ESE of Kota Kinabalu
),
27.ii.1997
,
flight interception trap
, leg. UMS students:
2 ♂♂
,
1 ♀
(
BOR
)
;
same locality,
11.iv.2000
,
pitfall
with chicken, leg.
M. Schilthuizen
,
1 ♂♂
,
1 ♀
(
BOR
)
;
Malaysia
:
Sabah
:
Tun Fuad Stephen Municipal Park
(outskirts of
Kota Kinabalu
),
10-12.iv.2000
,
pitfall
with lamb, leg.
M. Schilthuizen
,
2 ♂♂
,
5♀♀
(
BOR
)
,
1 ♂
(
FRCS
)
;
same locality,
24-27.xi.2000
,
pitfall
with dung or beef, leg.
M. Schilthuizen
,
1 ♂
,
3 ♀♀
(
BOR
)
;
Sugud Forest Reserve
,
15 km
S of Kota Kinabalu
(
Sabah
),
200 m
alt.,
pitfall
with carrion, leg.
M. Schilthuizen
,
1 ♀
(
BOR
)
;
Malaysia
:
Sabah
:
Batu Punggul Resort
,
24.vi-1.vii.1996
,
flight interception trap
,
13 ♂♂
,
7 ♀♀
(
CJRZ
;
CMPR
)
.
Additional material
(not included in the type series).— Tun Fuad Stephen Municipal Park,
24-27.ix.2000
,
4 ♂♂
,
9 ♀♀
in 70% ethanol; Kiansom,
25-29.xii.2000
,
8 specimens
of unidentified sex in 70% ethanol; Kiansom,
27.ii.1997
,
2 specimens
of unidentified sex in 100% ethanol;
Danum
Valley
Field
Centre
,
15.v.2000
,
2 specimens
of unidentified sex in 100% ethanol. (For full collection details, see Type material above.)
Diagnosis.— Habitus broad, rectangular, flat. Thorax on average 1.8 times as wide as long. Aedeagus (
figs 20-21
) with two apical lateral ‘wings’ and a long terminal processus. Male forelegs with long hairs on the ventral side of the profemur and protibia.
Description.— Habitus broad and rectangular, relatively flat. Moderately pigment- ed: mostly chestnut brown; only the tarsi and the edges of thorax and elytra lighter brown. Length
2.1-2.9 mm
(n = 26). Antennae slender and relatively long, 1.1-1.2 times as long as the width of the head (n = 5). Articles 6, 9, and 10 square. Male protarsi moderately dilated: the protibia at its largest width (excluding the lateral spines) is 1.5 times broader than the first article of the protarsus (n = 1). Female protarsi undilated. In the male, the ventral side of profemur and protibia carry long hairs, some of which are as long as the tarsus. Thorax 1.76-1.84 times as wide as long (n = 5), relatively flat, with the caudal corners distinctly drawn out. The mesosternal carina is strongly developed, its edge somewhat thickened. Elytra short, as long (measured from the caudal tip of the scutellum) as their combined width. Elytral apices distinctly truncate, identical in both sexes. The 3
rd-
5
th
visible abdominal sternite in the male each have a broad and very indistinct central notch and are slightly depressed in the vicinity of these notches. Aedeagus (
figs 20-21
) in dorsal view abruptly narrowing towards the apex, and there adorned with two lateral ‘wings’. The tip is composed of a long, fragile and slightly asymmetric processus. In lateral view, the aedeagus is moderately curved, the terminal processus lies in the plane of the rest of the aedeagus, whereas the two lateral wings point ventrad. Male genital segment relatively broad, at the apex slightly triangular, 2.5 times as long as wide.
Distribution.— This species is widely distributed in the lowlands of
Sabah
(all localities lie below
300 m
altitude), and apparently has a broad tolerance for habitat
types
, having been found both in primary (Danum Valley) and in secondary forests (Tun Fuad Stephen Park, Kota Kinabalu).
Remarks.— Based on aedeagal shape,
P. bryantioides
is closely related to
P. bryanti
, from which it differs in the habitus, which is very broad and stocky in
P. bryantioides
. For example, the thoracal index for the new species is 1.76-1.84, whereas for the
holotype
of
P. bryanti
it is only 1.56.
Etymology.—
bryantioides
, a Latin adjective, meaning ‘like
bryanti
’. The name refers to the similarity in aedeagal shape between these two species.