Oedichirus javanicus nov.sp.

(Fig. 6)

Material studied: ♀ Holotype: JAVA, Gunung Merapi, 11.VII.1982, G. de Rougemont / HOLOTYPE Oedichirus javanicus DES. 2015 G. de Rougemont [CRO].

Additional material: 1♀: Jangpan Kulon, W. JAVA, INDONESIA, 25.III.1993, K. ODANAKA / Oedichirus alatus NIET Det. TATEO ITO / Oedichirus javanicus Det. 2016 G. de Rougemont [CIK].

Description: length: 7.4 mm; length of fore-body: 3.6; length of head: 0.85; breadth of head: 1.05; length of antenna: 2; length of pronotum: 1.28; breadth of pronotum: 1; length of elytron: 1.45; breadth of elytra: 1.2. Head black, very narrowly reddish at base, pronotum red, elytra bicolorous, black in anterior part, measured along suture the black part extends to more than 2/3 rds the length of elytron, red in posterior part. Palpi and antennae testaceous; legs testaceous, the knees scarcely infuscate on forelegs, infuscation progressively extensive on middle and hind legs on which the infuscation occupies about distal quarter of femora and more than proximal 2/3 rds of tibiae. Dorsal surfaces devoid of microsculpture. Pubescence very long, mostly pale, erect. Habitus: as in Fig. 5h.

Female: sternite IX: Fig. 6vp.

This member of the O. Alatus group is practically indistinguishable from O. astoni ROUGEMONT (Hong Kong) and O. guomindangi nov.sp. (Taiwan) except by the conformation of the female ninth sternite and vulvar plate.

Distribution: Map 2. Key 1.