Malthinus hulai, Švihla, 2009

Švihla, Vladimír, 2009, New species of the subfamily Malthininae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the western Palaearctic Region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 191-216 : 193-194

Malthinus hulai sp. nov.

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Type locality. Turkey, Antalya Province, Göynük, 40 km west of Antalya.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ TURKEY, prov. Antalya, Göynük , 40 km W from Antalya, 14.–16.iv.2003, V. Hula leg. [white label, printed]’ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head honey yellow, behind eyes chestnut brown to sepia; basal antennomeres honey yellow, gradually darkening towards apex to sepia. Prothorax honey yellow with wide, indistinctly delimited, sienna-coloured median longitudinal spot reaching neither anterior nor posterior margin of pronotum. Legs sienna, basal tarsomeres somewhat paler, meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sienna. Scutellum and elytra sienna; each elytron with egg-yolk yellow apical spot.

Male. Eyes of medium size, moderately protruding; head across eyes distinctly wider than pronotum, behind eyes arcuately narrowing posteriorly; surface of head rugulose-lacunose, very finely yellow pubescent, matt. Antenna reaching almost elytral apex. Pronotum slightly wider than long, anterior margin nearly straight, anterior corners obtusely rounded, lateral margins arcuate, posterior corners rounded, posterior margin widely rounded; surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent similarly to head, matt, except for almost impunctate and lustrous area medially. Hind tibia simple. Elytra with rows of punctures, becoming irregular from about elytral midlength posteriorly, matt; basal half semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Fig. 3 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 3.9 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthinus hulai sp. nov. is similar to M. lasithiensis Wittmer, 1975 , known from Crete, in the presence of a pair of long and slender projections of the dorsal part of the phallus. It differs from the latter species by the tear-shaped apices of those projections and the shape of fused laterophyses (cf. WITTMER 1975).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Vladimír Hula (Moutnice, Czech Republic).

Distribution. Southern Turkey.

Figures

Figs. 1–4. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 1 – Malthinus fasciatus Olivier, 1790 (Épernay); 2 – ditto (Paris – Sceaux); 3 – M. hulai sp. nov. (holotype); 4 – M. ciraliensis sp. nov. (holotype). Scale bars = 0.1 mm.