Lycocerus wolfgangi, Švihla, Vladimír, 2011

Švihla, Vladimír, 2011, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III, Zootaxa 2895, pp. 1-34 : 11

Lycocerus wolfgangi sp. nov.

Figs. 11 , 57–59 .

Type locality. China, Sichuan province, Emei Shan mts., Wannian, 1050 m a.s.l.

Type material. Holotype ( SMNS), male, “ CHINA: Sichuan, Emei Shan [mts.], Wannian, 1050 m, 19.– 30.III.1999, leg. W. Schawaller [white label, printed]”.

Description. Coloration ( Fig. 11 ). Head black, lateral margins before eyes and mandibles honey yellow, apex of clypeus ferrugineous, maxillary palpi chestnut brown. Antennae sepia, basal two antennomeres honey yellow. Prothorax sepia, anterior and posterior margins of pronotum and ventrolateral margins of prothorax narrowly bordered with honey yellow. Legs chestnut brown, bases of tibiae slightly paler, claws honey yellow. Meso- and metasternum and ventral portion of abdomen sepia, last sternite honey yellow, scutellum sepia, elytra honey yellow, narrow sutural margins and ca last quarter darkened, chestnut brown.

Male. Eyes comparatively small, head across eyes ca as wide as pronotum, lateral margins behind eyes only slightly converging posteriorly. Antennae filiform, reaching almost to elytral apex, antennomeres 3–10 with very small, almost invisible oval impression. Surface of head very finely imbricate-punctate with fine, sparse, yellow semierect pubescence, matt. Pronotum about as long as wide, anterior margin slightly convex, anterior corners almost rectangular, obtuse, lateral margins very slightly diverging posteriorly, slightly sinuate, posterior corners almost rectangular, slightly projecting lateroapically, posterior margin slightly convex. Surface of pronotum with very slight mediolongitudinal carina in posterior half, sculptured and pubescent like that of head, matt. Outer claws of pro- and mesotarsi with basal projection. Elytra very slightly dilated posteriorly, venation very slightly indicated, surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose with semisparse, long, yellow semierect pubescence, matt. Aedeagus as in Figs. 57–59 .

Female unknown.

Length (male). 7.1 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Lycocerus wolfgangi sp. nov. is according to the coloration, shape of the aedeagus and form of the claws most similar to Lycocerus rubropilosus ( Wittmer, 1995) (Yunnan) , from which it differs by matt head without metallic tinge, largely dark pronotum, elytra with much sparser and longer semierect pubescence and both parameres narrower in ventral view, and laterophyses in lateral view (cf. Wittmer 1995).

Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to its collector, Wolfgang Schawaller (SMNS).

Distribution. China: Sichuan province.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. 10 – 18. Habitus of holotype. 10, Lycocerus vita sp. nov.; 11, L. wolfgangi sp. nov.; 12, L. putzi sp. nov.; 13, L. rubroniger sp. nov.; 14, L. marginalis sp. nov.; 15, L. nakladali sp. nov.; 16, L. krausi sp. nov.; 17, L. verticalis sp. nov.; 18, Stenothemus prothemoides sp. nov.

FIGURES 51 – 63. 51 – 53. Lycocerus costipennis sp. nov., holotype. 51, aedeagus, ventral aspect; 52, dorsal part of aedeagus, dorsal aspect; 53, apical part of aedeagus, lateral aspect; 54 – 56. L. vita sp. nov., holotype. 54, apical part of aedeagus, lateral aspect; 55, dorsal part of aedeagus, dorsal aspect; 56, aedeagus, ventral aspect; 57 – 59. L. wolfgangi sp. nov., holotype. 57, dorsal part of aedeagus, dorsal aspect; 58, apical part of aedeagus, lateral aspect; 59, aedeagus, ventral aspect; 60 – 63. L. putzi sp. nov., holotype. 60, last abdominal sternite of female (paratype); 61, dorsal part of aedeagus, dorsal aspect; 62, aedeagus, ventral aspect; 63, apical part of aedeagus, lateral aspect. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.