Malthodes zdeneki, Švihla, 2009

Švihla, Vladimír, 2009, New species of the subfamily Malthininae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the western Palaearctic Region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 191-216 : 202-204

Malthodes zdeneki sp. nov.

( Figs. 9 , 23 )

Type locality. Turkey, İcel Province, Güzeloluk, 1500 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘TR [ Turkey] – prov. Mersin [= İcel], Güzeloluk , 1500 m, 23.–24.v.2005, Z. Malinka lgt. [white label, printed]’ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae black, only mouthparts sienna. Thorax and legs black; abdominal sternites black, narrowly bordered with yellow. Elytra black, each elytron with lemon-yellow apical spot.

Male. Eyes small, moderately protruding; head across eyes about as wide as pronotum, arcuately narrowing posteriorly; surface of head very finely punctate and brown pubescent, semilustrous.Antenna reaching approximately apex of abdomen. Pronotum slightly wider than long, anterior margin widely rounded, anterior corners nearly rectangular, slightly rounded, lateral margins moderately concave, posterior angles obtusely rounded, posterior margin rather protruding apicad, rounded; surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent similarly to head, semilustrous. Elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely brown pubescent, matt. Last abdominal segments as in Fig. 23 , aedeagus as in Fig. 9 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 3.9 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthodes zdeneki sp. nov. is similar to M. seleucianus ( Turkey) in the shape of the last abdominal segments but the aedeagus differs strongly by the dorsoventrally flattened, apically hooked laterophyses (cf. WITTMER 1970).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Zdeněk Malinka (Opava, Czech Republic). Distribution. Southern Turkey.

Figures

Figs.9–12.Aedeagus, dorsal view.9 – Malthodes zdeneki sp. nov.(holotype); 10 – M.flagellatus sp. nov. (paratype); 11 – M. aphroditae sp. nov. (holotype); 12 – M. fritzlari sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Figs. 21–27. 21 – Malthinus peyerimhoffi Constantin, 1979, hind tibia of male. 22–24 – last abdominal segments of male, ventral view: 22 – Malthodes malinkorum sp. nov. (paratype); 23 – M. zdeneki sp. nov. (holotype); 24 – M. flagellatus sp. nov. (holotype). 25–27 – M. aphroditae sp. nov. (holotype): 25 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view; 26 – last tergite of male, dorsal view; 27 – apical part of last sternite of male, oblique caudal view.