Ptomaphaginus rufus Jeannel, 1936

Schilthuizen, Menno & Perreau, Michel, 2008, New species and new records of Ptomaphaginus Portevin from the Sunda region, Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae), Zool. Med. Leiden 82 (19), pp. 189-210 : 200

Ptomaphaginus rufus Jeannel, 1936

Ptomaphaginus rufus Jeannel, 1936: 56-58 , figs 67-68.— Holotype male ‘Type’ [round white label with red rim], ‘Bûkit Timah, Singapore, G.E. Bryant, 7.v.09 ’ [white rectangular label], ‘G. Bryant Coll., 1919— 147’ [white rectangular label], ‘TYPE’ [white rectangular label with red print], ‘See slide 7 (Jeannel 1934)’ [white rectangular label], ‘ Ptomaphaginus rufus n. sp. R. Jeannel det.’ [white rectangular label, Jeannel’s hand] in BMNH [examined]. Microscope slide, left-hand side: ‘ Ptomaphaginus rufus n. sp. Jeannel, Type, Singapoore’ [white square label, Jeannel’s hand, the word ‘Type” underlined in red], ‘B.M. 1919-147, org. copul. ♂ (Slide 7, Jeannel 1934)’ [white square label, the words ‘org. copul. ♂’ in Jeannel’s hand], ‘Type’ [round white label with red rim] in BMNH [examined].— Szymczakowski 1964: 99-101, fig. 11 (redescription); Szymczakowski 1970: 287-289, figs 10-20 (redescription).

Material.— Malaysia: Air Hitam forest reserve, 5 km west of Serdang (Selangor), in pitfall with beef, viii.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( BOR) . Serdang Lama (Selangor), rubber estate, 10.vii.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂ ( BOR) . Taman Negara (Pahang), primary forest, 22-27.vi.1989, leg. M. Schilthuizen, 1 ♂ ( BOR) .

Remarks.— This species has been recorded from several sites in Singapore ( Jeannel, 1936; Szymczakowski, 1970), which is also the provenance of the holotype. A female paratype derives from the west coast of Sumatra, but Szymczakowski (1964) suspects this specimen may actually belong to the related P. tarsalis Szymczakowski. Our material provides the first localities outside of Singapore: in the Malaysian states of Pahang and Selangor, which suggests the species is more widely distributed across the Malay Peninsula. The new specimens closely match Szymczakowski’s (1970) redescription.

Figures

Figs 7-12. Fig. 7, Ptomaphaginus burckhardti spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, dorsal view. Fig. 8, P. burckhardti spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view. Fig. 9, P. kurbatovi spec. nov., paratype (Cibodas); aedeagus, dorsal view. Fig. 10, P. kurbatovi spec. nov., paratype (Cibodas); aedeagus, lateral view. Fig. 11, P. sabahensis spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, dorsal view. Fig. 12, P. sabahensis spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view. All scale lines 100 µm.

Figs 13-15. 13, Ptomaphaginus bryanti Jeannel, aedeagus; reproduced from Jeannel (1936). 14, Ptomaphaginus caroli spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus dorsal view. 15, Ptomaphaginus caroli spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus lateral view.

Figs 16-25. 16, Ptomaphaginus anas spec. nov. holotype; aedeagus, dorsal view. 17, Ptomaphaginus anas spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view. 18, Ptomaphaginus similipes spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, dorsal view. 19, Ptomaphaginus similipes spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view. 20, Ptomaphaginus bryantioides spec. nov., paratype (from Kiansom); aedeagus, dorsal view. 21, Ptomaphaginus bryantioides spec. nov., paratype (from Kiansom); aedeagus, lateral view (basal part partly obscured by the genital segment). 22, Ptomaphaginus latimanus spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, ventral view. 23, Ptomaphaginus latimanus spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view. 24, Ptomaphaginus kinabaluensis spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, dorsal view. 25, Ptomaphaginus kinabaluensis spec. nov., holotype; aedeagus, lateral view.