Lamellipalpodes masatakai Kawashima, 2007

Bocakova, Milada, Bocak, Ladislav, Gimmel, Matthew L. & Friedlova, Tereza, 2015, A review of the genus Lamellipalpodes Maulik (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), Zootaxa 3925 (3), pp. 409-421 : 419

Lamellipalpodes masatakai Kawashima, 2007

Lamellipalpodes masatakai Kawashima, 2007:124 .

Diagnosis. Species similar to L. tsurui , from which it differs in posterior 2/3 of elytra dark brown to black (while only posterior half of elytra dark brown in L. tsurui ) and male genitalia with phallus longer than parameres.

Redescription. Body shining, with yellow or blackish pubescence. Body coloration yellow, only antennomeres 3–11, posterior 2/3 of elytra and lateral elytral margins dark brown. Eyes separated by 3.75x eye diameter in dorsal view. Antennae filiform, reaching over elytral humeri, antennomeres 3–11 of decreasing length towards apex. Terminal maxillary and labial palpomeres extraordinarily large, leaf-like. Pronotum 1.8x wider than long, widest basally, posterior angles triangularly projected posteriad. Elytra widest in distal third, elytral sutural margins divergent posteriorly, each elytron 3.7x longer than humeral width. Male genitalia strongly sclerotized, phallus distinctly longer then parameres, phallobase U-shaped. Body length: 7.8 mm, humeral width: 1.77 mm.

Distribution. East Myanmar.