Ponyalis laticornis Fairmaire, 1899

Fang, Chen, Yang, Yuxia, Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu, 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899 (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of six new species from China, ZooKeys 1203, pp. 325-354 : 325-354

Ponyalis laticornis Fairmaire, 1899

Figs 1 , 5 D – F , 6 C, D

Ponyalis laticornis Fairmaire, 1899: 623; Kazantsev 2002: 205; Li et al. 2015 a: 17.

Lyponia robusta Pic, 1922: 13. Synonymized by Bocak and Bocakova 2000: 42.

Lyponia laticornis : Pic, 1926: 69; Bocak 1999: 93, fig. 55.

Lyponia diversicornis Pic, 1926: 70. Synonymized by Bocak and Bocakova 2000: 42.

Lyponia limbaticollis Pic, 1926: 70. Synonymized by Bocak 1999: 93.

Lyponia guerryi Pic, 1939: 165. Synonymized by Bocak and Bocakova 2000: 42.

Lyponia patruelis Kleine, 1939: 17. Synonymized by Bocak 1999: 93.

Material examined.

China: 1 ♂ ( IZAS), Yunnan, Lijiang , 3100 m, 27. V. 1980, leg. L. Y. Wang ; 1 ♂ ( IZAS), Yunnan, Mancheng , 1700 m, 16. IV. 1980, leg. P. Gao .

Differential diagnosis.

This species can be differentiated from all other Ponyalis by the combination of the following characters: pronotum red, present with a large black patch, extending to anterior and posterior margins, elytra red (Fig. 6 C, D ); male antennomere I flattened dorsally, III – IV long-triangular, lamellae of V – X extended along whole length of corresponding stem and tapered laterally (Fig. 6 C ); elytra 5.5 × longer than pronotum and 1.2–1.3 × wider than posterior margin of pronotum, primary costae nearly as strong as the secondary ones, cells transverse (Fig. 6 C, D ); phallus abruptly widened near middle part, moderately projected distad at apical margin and narrowly rounded at apex in dorsal and ventral views (Fig. 5 D, E ).

Descriptive notes.

Male (Fig. 6 C, D ). Antennae reaching apical 1 / 4 length of elytra when inclined, antennomere I flattened dorsally, III and IV long-triangular, 1.3–1.4 × as long as wide, lamellae of V – X extended along whole length of corresponding stem and tapered laterally, 1.2–2.2 × longer than the corresponding antennomere itself, XI fusiform and 5.0 × as long as wide.

Aedeagus: phallus stout, 2.3 × as long as wide, abruptly widened near middle part and obtusely angled at lateral margins, moderately projected distad at apical margin and narrowly rounded at apex in dorsal and ventral views, with acute latero-apical angels, between which the distance much smaller than maximal width of trunk (Fig. 5 D, E ), almost even in width and weakly bent dorsally, truncate at ventro-apical 1 / 4 in lateral view (Fig. 5 F ).

Distribution

(Fig. 1 ). China (Yunnan), Vietnam, Myanmar.

Remarks.

As noted by others (e. g., Bocak 1999), this species shows some variations in the coloration of pronotum, of which the black patch could be extending to anterior margin (Fig. 6 D ) or not (Fig. 6 C ).

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution map of Ponyalis in the world.

Figure 5. Aedeagi of Ponyalis klapperichi (Bocak, 1999) (A – C); P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 (D – F); P. nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1939) (G – I); P. variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015 (J – L). A, D, G, J ventral views B, E, H, K dorsal views C, F, I, L lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 6. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis klapperichi (Bocak, 1999) (A, B); P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 (C, D). A, C, D males B female. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.