Eulichas milleri Ivie & Jäch, 2002

Hájek, Ji Ř Í, 2007, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) I. Introduction, morphology of adults, key to subgenera and species groups, and taxonomy of E. funebris species group, Zootaxa 1620, pp. 1-35 : 29-30

Eulichas milleri Ivie & Jäch, 2002

( Figs. 32 , 48 , 71)

Eulichas milleri Ivie & Jäch, 2002: 165 (original description, Vietnam: Hai Van Pass).

Type locality. “Hai Van Pass, 30 km north of Da Nang, Truong Son Mountains, central Vietnam ”.

Type material. Holotype ɗ ( NHMW): “ VIETNAM: Da Nang / Hai Van Pass / UTM Coord. 937918 / 0 2 JUN 1970, blt / T. H. Dickens [printed] // R.S.Miller / Collection [printed] // HOLOTYPE / Eulichas / ɗ milleri / Ivie & Jäch [printed]”. Paratypes: 5 ɗɗ, same label data as holotype; 25 ɗɗ, same label data except “ 3 JUN 1970 ” ( BMNH, FSCA, MTEC, NHMW [specimens from FSCA and MTEC were not studied]).

Description. Habitus elongate, fusiform. Body colouring brownish-red. Pale part of setation consists of recumbent yellowish setae forming typical ocellations on pronotum, elytra and abdominal sternites, where setae are darker and sparser (Fig. 71).

Measurements. Males: 25–28 mm (holotype 27 mm).

Head punctation consists of coarse setigerous punctures, larger and sparser on the frons, and smaller and denser on the vertex. Antenna robust, last antennomere ca. 2.10 times as long as wide ( Fig. 48 ), its ventral side smooth with numerous small tubercles.

Pronotum largely transverse, ca. 2.25 times as wide as long, its sides almost regularly rounded with only indistinct angle near the middle. Punctation consists of moderately large and sparse setigerous punctures on the disc, and coarser and denser punctures laterally.

Elytra with numerous longitudinal rows of large setigerous punctures, and very fine interstitial punctures.

Ventral part with fine punctures, which are sparse medially and become larger and denser laterally. Last abdominal ventrite laterally regularly rounded to apex.

Male. Aedeagus with phallobase longer than parameres. Parameres complex, widened apically. Subbasal parameral hook developed, but subapical hook absent. Medio-ventral parameral process long, attenuating and acute distally. Median lobe slender and subparallel, apically slightly diverging ( Fig. 32 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. So far known only from the type locality in central Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 27 – 34. Aedeagus of Eulichas in dorsal view. 27 – E. birmanica sp. nov.; 28 – E. jaechi sp. nov.; 29 – E. strbai sp. nov.; 30 – E. tanahrata sp. nov.; 31 – E. janbezdeki sp. nov.; 32 – E. milleri; 33 – E. mediocris; 34 – E. minuta sp. nov. Scale bar 1.5 mm.

FIGURES 35 – 50. Male antennomeres IX – XI of Eulichas. 35 – E. funebris; 36 – E. meghalayensis sp. nov.; 37 – E. tenuicornis; 38 – E. tonkinensis; 39 – E. undulata; 40 – E. haucki sp. nov.; 41 – E. kubani sp. nov.; 42 – E. pacholatkoi; 43 – E. birmanica sp. nov.; 44 – E. jaechi sp. nov.; 45 – E. strbai sp. nov.; 46 – E. tanahrata sp. nov.; 47 – E. janbezdeki sp. nov.; 48 – E. milleri; 49 – E. mediocris; 50 – E. minuta sp. nov. Scale bar 1 mm.