Kuantana menayah Ballantyne, 2019

Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, Zootaxa 4687 (1), pp. 1-174 : 82-85

Kuantana menayah Ballantyne sp. nov.

Figs 14, 15 , 230−245

Types. Holotype male, paratype male, female. MALAYSIA. Sungai Selangor 4 kms west of Kg Kuantan , no date, R. Menayah ( ANIC) . Paratype male Kg Kuantan 14.viii.1998 no collector ( FRIM) .

Diagnosis. 8.7–10.4 mm long; yellowish pronotum with brownish yellow semitransparent elytra which are black tipped (specimens are preserved in ethanol).

Male. 8.7–10.4 mm long. Colour: pronotum, MS and MN yellowish, elytra yellow with narrow darker brown edging to inner edge of epipleuron, and black apex; head, antennae and palpi black; venter of thorax pale yellowish brown; legs yellowish brown, tibiae 1, 2 slightly darker, darkening towards apex; tarsi 3 dark brown; basal ventrites yellow; V4 pale brown across most of median area, with pale lateral margins; V6 largely dark brown with paler markings at anterolateral corners and paired paler spots near corners; LO white; V7 yellowish between LO halves; T7, 8 orange; basal tergites pale semitransparent with small brown markings at edges.

Female. 11.3 mm long. Colour: as for male except for white LO in V6 only and dingy yellowish V7, 8 which bear irregular darker markings.

Etymology. The species is named for its collector Rajan Menayah with thanks.

Figures

FIGURES 9−16. Key to genera characters 2. 9. Missimia flavida type male; 10 Luciola brahmina type male (MNHN); 11, 12 Luciola seriata type male (CMG); 13 Asymmetricata circumdata male; 14, 15 Kuantana menayah gen. et sp. nov.; 16 Curtos costipenis male. 9 anterior head (arrow indicates clypeus); 10, 11, 16 dorsal (arrows in 16 indicate humeral carina); 12 lateral tergite 8 aedeagal sheath and sclerites); 13 dorsal tergites 7 and 8; 14, 15, dorsal (14) and ventral tergite 8. Figure legends: AS aedeagal sheath; T7, 8 tergites 7, 8.

FIGURES 230−237. Kuantana menayah gen. et sp. nov. type male. 230, 232 habitus dorsal (232 slightly to side with right elytron pulled to side); 233−237 abdomen: 233 ventral. 234 dorsal, 235 right lateral; 236, 237 terminal abdomen tergites 7 8: 237 from beneath with aedeagus and sheath removed; 238 from above (left side of tergite 7 damaged in extraction). Scale lines are 1 mm.

FIGURES 238−245. Kuantana menayah gen. et sp. nov. type male 238−240; paratype female 241−245. 238, 239 aedeagal sheath: 238 ventral; 239 dorsal; 240 aedeagus ventral; 241 habitus ventral; 242, 243 dissected abdomen: 242 ventral; 243 dorsal; 244 ventrites 6−8 only; 245 reproductive system including ventrite 6 with ovipositor beneath (styli to left of page and spermato- phore digesting gland, unlabelled, to right); arrowed is median oviduct plate. Scale lines are 1 mm.