Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi hopkinsi Horn, 1909

Wiesner, Jürgen & Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2023, The Philippines species of the genus Prothyma Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) Part 1: Subgenera Prothyma Hope, 1838, Genoprothyma Rivalier, 1964 and Parasymplecthyma subgen. nov., Zootaxa 5315 (1), pp. 1-36 : 14-15

Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi hopkinsi Horn, 1909 ( Fig. 8 )

Prothyma Hopkinsi Horn 1909: 313 , 314.

Type locality. “ Philippines ” .

Prothyma Hopkinsi: Horn 1910: 175 ; Horn 1926: 99; Horn 1934: 145, f. 1.

Prothyma hopkinsi: Horn 1923: 357 , 358.

Prothyma (Genoprothyma) Hopkinsi: Rivalier 1964: 154 , f. 14b, 155, f. 15b, 157, f. 16b.

Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi: Wiesner 1980: 124 ; Wiesner 1992: 58; Cabras, Cabigas and Wiesner 2016: 192; Wiesner 2020: 138.

Type material. Lectotype (here designated) male: “Hopkinsi // Syntypus [printed, red] // Typus / coll. W. Horn // LECTOTYPE / Prothyma hopkinsi / W. Horn, 1909 / design. Wiesner & / Anichtchenko 2022 [printed, red]” ( SDEI).

Other material examined. 1 male: “ Polillo Isl. / W. Schultze ” ; 1 female: “Island Polillo / Baker“ ; 1 male: “ Mt. Trimai (illegible) / Luzon” ; 1 male, 1 female: ” Philippines / Mus. Moscow” ; 2 females: “ Laguna / Baker / Luzon” ; 1 female: “ Luzon / Laguna / Paete” ; 1 female: “ Philippines / Luzon / Mt. Banahao ” ; 1 female: “ Mt. Banahao / P. I. Baker ” ; 3 males, 8 females: “ Mt. Makiling / Luzon, Baker” ; 5 males, 1 female: “ Mt. Banahao / vi. 1914 / Boettcher” ; 1 female: “ Los Banos / Philippines I‘ds. / 1916–1917 // F. X. Williams / Collector” ; 1 male, 1 female: “ Mt. Makiling / Laguna, P. I. / vi. 26. 30 // F. C. Hadden / Collection” ; 1 male: “ Mt. Makiling / Laguna, P. I. / iv.21.31 // F. C. Hadden / Collector” ( SDEI) . 1 male, 1 female in SDEI, 1 male in NHMW, 1 male in MCZR: “ Mt. Banahao / Luzon” ; 1 female: “ Philippines / Mt. Banaham / viii.67 / Quezon ” ( MCZR) . 1 male: “ Philippines / Mt. Makilling / Batangas pr. / 16. vi. 89 RN” ( NHMW) ; 1 male: “ Philippines / Quezon N. P. / 18. vi. 89 RN” ( SHNHO) . 2 males, 1 female: “ Philippines Luzon / Mt. Banahaw de Tayabas / River Alitao 500 m / 22.–29. viii.1995 / leg. N. Naidenow ” ( JWc) . 1 female: “ Philippines, vi.1998 / Mt. Makiling , Laguna / Los Banos, 900–1000 m / leg. I. O. Lumawig ” ( JWc) . 2 males, 1 female: “ Philippines, 900-1000m / Mt. Makiling, Los Banos / Laguna, 12. vi. 1998 / leg. Ismael O. Lumawig ” ( JWc) ; 1 female: “ Philippines / Laguna Juin. 2002 / South Luzon // Lumawig leg.” (CDc) ; 1 female: “ Philippines / Sud Luzon / Laguna // vi. 2002 ” (CDc) . 1 female: “near Santa Cruz – Laguna Pr. / Calabarzon Region / Luzon Isl. – Philippines / local collector vi. 2003 ” (CKc) ; 2 females: “ Philippines, S Luzon / Laguna, vi. 2003 ” ( DUBC, SHNO) ; 1 female: “ Philippines, E Luzon / xii. 2014, Sierra Madre / Nagtipunan, Quirino ” ( DUBC) . 1 female: “ v.2017 / Mariveles / Bataan / W Luzon, Philippines ” ; 1 female: “ vi. 2017 / Rodriguez, Rizal / S Luzon / Philippines ” ; 1 male: “ v. 2020 / Dingalan, Aurora / E Luzon / Philippines ” ; 1 male: “ i.2018 / Luisiana / S Luzon / Philippines ” (WJc) . 2 males: “ Philippines / South Luzon / Luisiana Laguna // 1. 2018 // Lumawig leg.” (CDc) ; 2 males and 1 female in CKc, 1 female in WJc: “ iv.2018 / Dingalan, Aurora / E Luzon / Philippines ” ; 2 females: “ Dingalan village env. / Sierra Madre - E Luzon / Aurora Pr. , Philippines / local collector viii. 2018 ” ; 1 male: “ Filippine – W Luzon / Mariveles / Bataan VI.2017 ” (RSc) ; 1 male: “ Philippines / South Luzon / Laguna VI.2003 ” (RSc) ; 1 male: “ Filippine – S Luzon / Luisiana , Laguna / I.2018 ” (RSc) ; 3 males: “ Philippines – E Luzon / Sierra Madre, Aurora / Dingalan IV.2018 ” (RSc)

Diagnosis. Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi is distinguished from the other members of the subgenus by: 1, unique shape of the aedeagus; 2, maculation of the elytra; 3, color and surface structure of the pronotum.

Description. Size: TL (without labrum) 9.9–14.6 mm (mean = 12.3 mm, n = 65).

Head: Color shining black; with coppery or coppery-red reflections on orbital plates and near pronotum and basal part of genae; with bluish or greenish reflections on apical half of genae; with greenish-blue reflections on vertex and clypeus; surface glabrous, with two setigerous punctures next to eye, one along frontal margin and one dorsally at center; strong longitudinal striae on orbital plates and vertex; strong transversal striae behind the eyes and on neck; striae becoming obsolete on genae, frons, and clypeus. Head as wide as elytra (mean EW/HW = 1.0). Labrum bicolored, ochre-testaceous, margins brownish, black area baso-medially, bilobed or extended to the apex in some specimens. Labrum of male ( Figs 8b, c, d ) wider than long (mean LW/LL = 1.4); with four setae located near the margin, two lateral and two apical; with two blunt anterolateral teeth and two outward directed thorn-like anterior teeth at the anteromedian lobe, space between slightly bulged in some specimens. Labrum of female ( Fig. 8e ) slightly wider than long (mean LW/LL = 1.1), with four setae located near the margin, two lateral and two apical; with two blunt anterolateral teeth and two outward directed thorn-like anterior teeth at the anteromedian lobe, intermediate space with a large triangular tooth. Mandibles brownish, with four teeth, margins darker small area of base ochre-testaceous. Labial and maxillary palpi testaceous, the last segment shiny black.Antennae slender, reaching posteriorly to the middle of the elytra in males, shorter in females; scape completely black or bicolored, ochre-testaceous at apex, black at base; antennomere two black with metallic luster; antennomeres three and four black with metallic luster and with ochre-testaceous part at the apex in some specimens; scape with one apical seta, the following three antennomeres almost glabrous; antennomeres five to eleven black, dull, finely, and evenly pubescent.

Thorax: Pronotum slightly longer than wide (mean PW/PL = 0.9); sides slightly rounded between the transversal constrictions; glabrous, with shallow transverse striae on disc; shiny black with coppery or coppery-red reflections dorsally; transversal constrictions with blue-green reflections; margins bluish-green; sternae and episternae glabrous, shiny black; mesepisternum of females with rounded pit in the center.

Elytra: ( Fig. 8f–i ) twice as long as wide (mean EL/EW = 2.0), parallel-sided, with a flattened basal hump, slightly bulged at the lateral margin in basal and apical half; dorsal surface shining black, in some specimens a little lighter at apex, with coppery or coppery-red reflections on the disc, bluish-green reflections at the apical margin and at the humeral part; elytral testaceous maculation consists of a humeral dot, small or absent in some female specimens, a lateromedial dot in the form of an oblique backwards band, narrowing towards the tip in some specimens or nearly separated into two patches, and a transverse preapical dot; surface with dense and evenly spaced punctures, shallower towards the apex, becoming confluent and forming grooves near the suture; these grooves covers about the apical third to half of the elytra, nearly reaching the tip of the lateromedial spot; apical margin distinctly rounded and hardly restricted towards middle suture, with a tiny sutural spine. Epipleurae black.

Ventral aspect: Venter glabrous, bluish black; trochanter glabrous, coxa, femur, tibia, and tarsi setose; trochanter, coxa, basal half and in some specimens apical part of femur testaceous, remainder of legs brownish black.

Aedeagus: ( Fig 10a–h ) in lateral view, slender in the basal third, then voluminously expanded, then rapidly tapering again towards the apex, extending to a relatively short and blunt point (total length 3.2 mm).

Distribution. LUZON— Aurora: Dingalan; Bataan: Mariveles, Mount Limay ( Horn 1923: 358); Laguna: Los Banos, Luisiana, Mount Banahao, Mount Makiling, Paete, Santa Cruz; Quezon: Dolores ( Horn 1909: 313), Polillo Isl.; Quirino: Nagtipunan; Rizal: Rodriguez.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi hopkinsi Horn, 1909. (a) Dorsal habitus male from Mt. Makiling, compared with the lectotype. Scale = 5 mm. (b–e, labrum, Scale = 1 mm). (b) Male from Mt. Makiling. (c) Male from Luisiana. (d) Male from Dingalan. (e) Female from Mount Makiling. (f–j Left elytron. Scale = 5 mm). (f) Male from Mt. Makiling. (g) Male from Luisiana. (h) Male from Mount Banahao. (i) Female from Mount Makiling. (j) Aedeagus, left lateral view, from Mount Makiling. Scale = 1 mm.

FIGURE 10. Variability of aedeagus structure of Prothyma (Genoprothyma) hopkinsi Horn, 1909. (a–h). hopkinsi hopkinsi: (a–d) Dingalan; (e–f) Mount Makiling; (g–h) Luisiana. (i–l). hopkinsi bakeri: (i–j) Atimonan; (k–l) Quezon Park, Tayabas. Scale = 1 mm.