Malthodes lycicus, 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 : 213-214

Malthodes lycicus sp. nov.

( Figs. 18 , 49–51 )

Type locality. Turkey, Antalya Province, pass 18 km northeast of Belen, 36°28′38″N 32°23′16″E, 1550 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘TURCIA m., Prov. Antalya, 18 km NE Demirtas [= Belen], Pass bei [= about] 1550 m, 36°28′38″N 32°23′16″E, blühende Bäume, Kiefernwald [= flowering trees, pine forest], 26.v.2006, leg. A Kopetz [white label, printed]’ ( NMEG) . PARATYPE: 1 J, same data as holotype ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head black, mouthparts rusty to sienna.Antennae black, antennomere 1, base of antennomere 2 narrowly or antennomeres 1–2 entirely honey yellow. Prothorax chestnut brown, both anterior and posterior margins narrowly egg-yolk to honey yellow, sometimes also indistinctly delimited, irregular median stripe egg-yolk to honey yellow. Meso- and metasternum black, their epimera lemon yellow; ventral part of abdomen sepia, sternites bordered with yellow, last abdominal segment entirely honey yellow. Legs sepia, knees somewhat paler. Scutellum and elytra sepia, each elytron with lemon-yellow apical spot.

Male. Head moderately elongate; eyes small but protruding; head across eyes approximately as wide as pronotum, temporal margins arcuately narrowing posteriorly. Surface of head very finely and sparsely punctate, finely and sparsely grey pubescent, lustrous. Antenna reaching abdominal apex. Pronotum moderately wider than long, anterior margin straight, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins straight, slightly converging posteriorly, posterior corners strongly rounded, posterior margin moderately protruding apicad, rounded. Surface of pronotum more densely punctate than that of head, finely grey pubescent, semilustrous. Elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely grey pubescent, semilustrous. Last abdominal segments as in Figs. 49–51 . Aedeagus as in Fig. 18 .

Female unknown.

Length (J): 2.9–3.2 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Malthodes lycicus sp. nov. is similar to M. dimidiaticollis (Rosenhauer, 1847) from central and eastern Europe and the Near East and to M. dilizhanus Švihla, 1983 from Armenia in the shape of the last abdominal segments. It differs from both species by the longer and apically truncate branches of the bifurcation of the last tergite and narrower laterophyses of the aedeagus (cf. WITTMER 1978 and ŠVIHLA 1983).

Etymology. Named after Lycia, the ancient kingdom in southern Turkey, whose territory included the type locality.

Distribution. Southern Turkey.

Figures

Figs. 17–20.Aedeagus, dorsal view.17 – Malthodes paveli sp. nov. (holotype); 18 – M. lycicus sp. nov. (paratype); 19 – M. besucheti Wittmer, 1970 (paratype); 20 – M. bucakensis Wittmer, 1970 (Gülükdağı). Scale bars = 0.05 mm.

Figs. 49–51. Malthodes lycicus sp. nov. (holotype): 49 – last abdominal segments of male, lateral view; 50 – apical part of last sternite of male, ventro-caudal view; 51 – last tergite of male, dorso-caudal view.