Anthelephila lubopetra, Kejval & Cz, 2010

Kejval, Zbyněk & Cz, Domažlice, 2010, Studies on the genus Anthelephila (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) 11. New species and records from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Oman, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 189-234 : 211-213

Anthelephila lubopetra sp. nov.

( Figs. 47–52 , 101 )

Type locality. India, Assam state, 5 km north of Umrongso, 25°27′N 92°43′E.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘NE-INDIA, Assam state, 5 km N of UMRONGSO, 25°27′N, 92°43′E, 21.v.1999, P. Pacholátko & L. Dembický lgt.’ ( NMPC).

Description (male, holotype). Body length 4.2 mm. Head and pronotum reddish; elytra largely brown black except rather sharply delimited reddish basal third; legs reddish brown, antennae reddish.

Head 1.3 times as long as wide, slightly produced posteriorly, its base somewhat less distinctly differentiated from short neck; tempora strongly narrowing posteriad, posterior angles absent. Eyes medium-sized, rather convex. Dorsal surface largely finely corrugated, smooth and rather glossy postero-medially and basally, rather finely punctate; punctation uneven, at places less distinct and concealed by corrugation. Setation short, mostly subdecumbent, erect setae less distinct. Antennae moderately but distinctly enlarged in terminal third; antennomere X 1.7 times and antennomere XI 2.3 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.5 times as long as wide, moderately narrower than head across eyes, evenly rounded anteriorly, narrowed and moderately but distinctly impressed postero-laterally (constricted) in dorsal view; pronotal disc largely evenly shaped with slightly protruding, transverse rugosity in posterior third, its outline more or less convex in anterior half, slightly uneven in posterior half in lateral view. Dorsal surface largely finely punctate with numerous transverse wrinkles before smooth and glossy antebasal facet; antero-lateral sides only with scattered punctures, mostly impunctate, smooth and glossy; postero-lateral impressions shortly and finely wrinkled, base dorso-laterally with some coarser punctures arranged in short and dense longitudinal row (bordering impunctate antebasal facet); dorsal punctation similar to that on head, becoming more distinct, coarser towards posterior transverse rugosity. Setation as that on head.

Mesosternum and metasternum simple.

Elytra 1.8 times as long as wide, conjointly rounded apically; humeri somewhat less distinct; postscutellar impression nearly absent. Surface glossy, distinctly punctate; punctation probably double, setiferous punctures coarser than those on head, other punctures very fine and less distinct. Setation pale, longer than that on head, evenly developed, subdecumbent to decumbent, with scattered erect setae, especially in apical third.

Metathoracic wings fully developed.

Fore legs modified ( Fig. 47 ); profemora with small dent-like process, bearing some short stiff setae on inner side subapically; protibiae with small rounded lobule on inner side behind mid-length; penultimate tarsomere widened and flattened distally with terminal tarsomere articulated dorsally in all tarsi. Setation longer and more raised on inner side of metatibiae.

Abdominal characters as in Figs. 48–52 ; sternum III with shallow median longitudinal impression, lateral sided of impression rather sharply bordered; sternum VII rather deeply impressed and excavate medially; paired prongs of sternite VIII simple, slender, sabre-like shaped; apical portion of tegmen 0.5 times as long as basal piece, trilobed apically.

Differential diagnosis. Anthelephila lubopetra sp. nov. resembles the Himalayan species A. nitescens ( Krekich-Strassoldo, 1931) , A. strandi ( Krekich-Strassoldo, 1931) and A. umbratilis in the colouration and body form. It shares a similar modification of male sternum III with A. nitescens (simple in the latter two species) but differs clearly in all other male characters. Males of A. nitescens possess, for example, a longer and more robust, apically rounded profemoral process, different modification of the protibiae with a longitudinal, slightly protruding edge on the inner side, emarginate sternum VII with a small but distinct median process (upturned and thus less visible in ventral view), and they also display a quite dissimilar, more complex morphology of sternite VIII.

Etymology. Dedicated to Luboš Dembický and Petr Pacholátko (Brno, Czech Republic), who collected this species; composed from their first names. Noun in apposition.

Distribution. India (Assam).

Figures

Figs. 47–52.Anthelephila lubopetra sp.nov., holotype (male). 47 – profemur and tibia; 48 – sternum VII; 49 – tergum VII; 50 – sternite VIII in dorsal view (one half); 51 – tergite VIII; 52 – apical portion of tegmen of aedeagus. Scale = 0.5 mm: A – Figs. 49, 51; 0.2 mm: A – Figs. 50, 52; B – Fig. 48; C – Fig. 47.

Figs. 101–108. Anthelephila spp., body in dorsal view (males; holotypes in new species). 101 – A. lubopetra sp. nov.; 102 – A. maharani sp. nov.; 103 – A. pateva sp. nov.; 104 – A. sevciki sp. nov.; 105 – A. triungula sp. nov.; 106 – A. tryznai sp. nov.; 107 – A. umbratilis (Krekich–Strassoldo, 1928), Uttarakhand, Juido env. (ZKDC); 108 – A. vishnumati sp. nov.