Sulabanus gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi
Author
Dvorak, Milan
Author
Bocak, Ladislav
text
Zootaxa
2007
1611
1
24
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178938
9744cdfc-43f5-49a0-be0b-7ad685892714
1175-5326
178938
Sulabanus minor
sp. nov.
(Figs. 19–20)
Type
material.
Holotype
. Male. S. Sulawesi,
8 km
W of Mamasa (Nepe),
950 m
, 119.20.32E, 2.56.13S,
29- 31 June 2001
, Bolm lgt. 2
paratypes
.
2 males
, same locality data as the
holotype
(
LMBC
).
Differential diagnosis.
The membership of
S. minor
in the
S. mamasensis
group is based on the shape of male genitalia (Figs. 19–20). The transverse patch on the elytra is similar to the sympatrically occurring
S. mamasensis
but these species differ in the ratio between the interocular distance and the eye diameter (
1.57 in
S. mamasensis
and
0.89 in
S. minor
). Additionally, the wide middle part of the phallus is narrowing gradually toward the apex of the phallus in
S. mamasensis
and suddenly in
S. minor
). Similarly coloured
S. cordatus
differ in the shape of the middle wide part of the phallus (Fig. 21) and their eye diameter is larger than the interocular distance.
Description.
Body dark brown to black, elytra with light brown transverse yellow patch in humeral third. Head partly hidden by pronotum. Frontal distance between eyes 0.89 times eye diameter. Pronotum flat, 1.07 times wider that long. Elytra parallel–sided, four times longer than width at humeri. Male genitalia with phallus widened at middle of its length (Figs. 19–20).
Measurements.
BL
6.65 mm
, HW
1.41 mm
, PL
1.05 mm
, PW
1.13 mm
, Ediam
0.50 mm
, Edist
0.45 mm
, EL
5.6 mm
.
Distribution.
Sulawesi, known only from the
type
locality in the Mamasa valley in the environs of the village of Nepe.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is derived from the small body size.