Sulabanus minor, Dvorak, Milan & Bocak, Ladislav, 2007

Dvorak, Milan & Bocak, Ladislav, 2007, Sulabanus gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi, Zootaxa 1611, pp. 1-24 : 9

Sulabanus minor sp. nov.

(Figs. 19–20)

Type material. Holotype. Male. S. Sulawesi, 8 km W of Mamasa (Nepe), 950 m, 119.20.32E, 2.56.13S, 29- 31 June 2001, Bolm lgt. 2 paratypes. 2 males, same locality data as the holotype ( LMBC).

Differential diagnosis. The membership of S. minor in the S. mamasensis group is based on the shape of male genitalia (Figs. 19–20). The transverse patch on the elytra is similar to the sympatrically occurring S. mamasensis but these species differ in the ratio between the interocular distance and the eye diameter (1.57 in S. mamasensis and 0.89 in S. minor ). Additionally, the wide middle part of the phallus is narrowing gradually toward the apex of the phallus in S. mamasensis and suddenly in S. minor ). Similarly coloured S. cordatus differ in the shape of the middle wide part of the phallus (Fig. 21) and their eye diameter is larger than the interocular distance.

Description. Body dark brown to black, elytra with light brown transverse yellow patch in humeral third. Head partly hidden by pronotum. Frontal distance between eyes 0.89 times eye diameter. Pronotum flat, 1.07 times wider that long. Elytra parallel–sided, four times longer than width at humeri. Male genitalia with phallus widened at middle of its length (Figs. 19–20).

Measurements. BL 6.65 mm, HW 1.41 mm, PL 1.05 mm, PW 1.13 mm, Ediam 0.50 mm, Edist 0.45 mm, EL 5.6 mm.

Distribution. Sulawesi, known only from the type locality in the Mamasa valley in the environs of the village of Nepe.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the small body size.