Malthinus ciraliensis, 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 : 194

Malthinus ciraliensis sp. nov.

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Type locality. Turkey, Antalya Province, Çıralı.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘TR: Antalya pr., Ciran [sic!], 20.–21.iv.2003, V. Hula lgt. [white label, printed] // right name of locality is Çıralı (Hula pers. comm.), corrected by V. Švihla 2008 [white label, printed]’ ( NMPC) . PARATYPE: 1 J, ‘ Turkey, Antalya prov., Kash 50 km N, Kuruova pass, 36°25´N 29°40´E, 1350 m, on Prunus, 29.iv.2004, R. Constantin [lgt.]’ ( RCSF).

Description. Coloration. Head anteriorly egg-yolk yellow, posteriorly of about midlength of eyes sienna to chestnut brown; antennae sepia, two basal antennomeres egg-yolk yellow. Prothorax honey yellow with transverse median spots before both anterior and posterior margin. Mesosternum and last abdominal segment egg-yolk yellow, remaining part of body ventrum sienna. Legs egg-yolk yellow, femora slightly darker, rusty. Scutellum and humeral portions of each elytron egg-yolk yellow, sutural area of basal third and rest of elytra sooty, each elytron with lemon-yellow apical spot.

Male. Eyes of medium size, moderately protruding; head across eyes moderately wider than pronotum, behind eyes almost straightly narrowing posteriorly; surface of head finely and sparsely punctate and yellow pubescent, lustrous; posterior portion of vertex more roughly rugulose-lacunose, matt. Antennae reaching almost elytral apex. Pronotum about one fifth wider than long, its anterior margin straight, anterior corners obtusely rounded, lateral margins arcuate, posterior corners obtusely rounded, posterior margin widely rounded; surface of pronotum pubescent similarly to head, rugulose-lacunose in middle of anterior portion, finely and sparsely punctate on remaining parts, with almost impunctate disc, semilustrous to lustrous, anteriorly matt. Hind tibia simple. Elytra with rows of punctures in basal third, becoming irregular posteriorly, with fine and sparse yellow pubescence, matt, basal third semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Fig. 4 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 4.1 mm.

Differential diagnosis. In the shape of the aedeagus, Malthinus ciraliensis sp. nov. is similar to M. lasithiensis (Crete) and M. hulai sp. nov. (southern Turkey). It differs from both species by the shape of the projections of the dorsal part of phallus and the shape of fused laterophyses (cf. Fig. 3 and WITTMER 1975).

Etymology. Named after the type locality.

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.