Malthodes malinkorum, 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 : 201-202

Malthodes malinkorum sp. nov.

( Figs. 8 , 22 )

Type locality. Turkey, Mardin Province, Hop Geçidi pass.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘TR [= Turkey] – prov. Mardin, Hop Gecidi [= Hop Geçidi pass], Mardin env., 11.–14.v.2005, Z. Malinka lgt. [white label, printed]’ ( NMPC) . PARATYPES: 10 JJ 14 ♀♀, same data as holotype ( NMPC, ZMOC).

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae black, only mouthparts chestnut brown to sepia. Prothorax black, posterior corners of pronotum widely egg-yolk yellow. Meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen black. Scutellum and elytra sooty, apex of each elytron with egg-yolk yellow spot.

Male. Head elongate; eyes small, slightly protruding; head across eyes very slightly narrower than pronotum; temporal margins anteriorly almost parallel, posteriorly arcuately narrowing; surface of head very finely and sparsely punctate and brown pubescent, lustrous. Antenna very slightly exceeding elytral apex. Pronotum very slightly wider than long; its anterior margin widely rounded, very slightly sinuate in middle, anterior corners obtusely rounded, lateral margins slightly concave, posterior corners obtusely rounded, posterior margin widely rounded; surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent similarly to head, lustrous. Elytra finely rugulose-lacunose and brown pubescent, semilustrous. Last abdominal segments as in Fig. 22 , aedeagus as in Fig. 8 .

Female. Eyes slightly smaller and less protruding than in male; head across eyes by one fourth narrower than pronotum. Antenna shorter, not reaching elytral apex.

Length (J ♀): 3.9–4.5 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthodes malinkorum sp. nov. is similar to M. seleucianus Wittmer, 1970 ( Turkey) in the shape of the last abdominal segments and the shape of the aedeagus. It differs from the latter species by the tapering and not emarginate last tergite, narrower last sternite and more elongate head (cf. WITTMER 1970). The aedeagus is very similar in both species except for phallus, which only slightly exceeds the base of the laterophyses in M. malinkorum sp. nov. but reaches three fourths of the length of the laterophyses in M. seleucianus (in the figure by WITTMER 1970, the phallus is wrongly situated more basally). Furthermore, in M. seleucianus , the laterophyses are narrower in their middle portion and not sinuate apically (cf. WITTMER 1970).

Etymology. Dedicated to the family of its collector, Zdeněk Malinka (Opava, Czech Republic).

Distribution. Southeastern Turkey.

Figures

Figs. 5–8.Aedeagus, dorsal view. 5 – Malthinus malinkai sp. nov. (holotype); 6 – M. peyerimhoffi Constantin, 1979 (Tizi-n-Test pass); 7 – M. egadiensis sp. nov. (holotype); 8 – Malthodes malinkorum sp. nov. (paratype). Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Figs. 21–27. 21 – Malthinus peyerimhoffi Constantin, 1979, hind tibia of male. 22–24 – last abdominal segments of male, ventral view: 22 – Malthodes malinkorum sp. nov. (paratype); 23 – M. zdeneki sp. nov. (holotype); 24 – M. flagellatus sp. nov. (holotype). 25–27 – M. aphroditae sp. nov. (holotype): 25 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view; 26 – last tergite of male, dorsal view; 27 – apical part of last sternite of male, oblique caudal view.