Cautires arribasae, Jiruskova & Motyka & Bocak, 2016

Jiruskova, Alice, Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016, High diversity and endemism in the genus Cautires Waterhouse, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Malay mountain forests, with the descriptions of fourteen new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 219 (219), pp. 1-29 : 11

Cautires arribasae sp. nov.

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Figs 5, 23, 43, 61

Diagnosis

Cautires arribasae sp. nov. is one of the species with a brightly coloured humeral part of elytra and black pronotum. The species resembles C. alexae sp. nov. and C. kotatinggensis sp. nov. in general appearance and differs in the large eyes, the shape of the pronotum ( Figs 21, 23, 31), and phallus ( Figs 59, 61, 69).

Etymology

The specific epithet is proposed in honour of Paula Arribas, a colleague studying beetle soil communities.

Type material

Holotype

MALAYSIA: ♁, Pahang, Gn. Beremban, 1480 m, 4°27'51" N, 101°23'26" E, 6–28 Apr. 2013 (AJ0079).

Paratypes

MALAYSIA: 3 ♁♁, 3 ♀♀, same locality data (AJ0058, AJ0059, AJ0062, AJ0064, AJ0066, AJ0078).

Measurements

BL 9.8 mm, PL 1.5 mm, PW 2.05 mm, HW 1.15 mm, Edist 0.5 mm, Ediam 0.68 mm, LP 1.67 mm.

Description of the male

Body slender, black, only basal fourth of primary and fifth of secondary elytral costae with reddish pubescence ( Fig. 43). Head small, hemispherically prominent, eyes large, eye diameter 1.36 times interocular distance. Antennae flabellate ( Fig. 5). Pronotum with 7 areolae, median areola complete, marked by sharp ridges, attached directly to basal margin of pronotum; anterior angles obtuse, lateral margins slightly concave, lateral part of pronotum strongly elevated, posterior angles acutely prominent, pronotal margins and costae covered with brown, dense pubescence ( Fig. 23). Elytra parallel-sided, secondary costae well developed, transverse costae dense ( Fig. 43). Phallus robust, slender in basal part, its apex obtuse ( Fig. 61).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia: Pahang. Cautires arribasae sp. nov. is known only from the mountain forests in the Cameron Highlands.