Blaiseus bedeli Fleutiaux 1931:308

Douglas, Hume, 2009, Revision of Blaiseus Fleutiaux, a Genus Now Known from Asia, Africa and North America (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Cardiophorinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 63 (1), pp. 86-100 : 89-92

Blaiseus bedeli Fleutiaux 1931:308 .

— Fleutiaux 1947:343 (redescription)

Material examined. One male.

Lectotype: (Hereby designated) Blaiseus bedeli Fleutiaux 1931 : male, only known syntype, with the following labels: ‘‘RÉG. DE LUC-NAM/ ( TONKIN) L.BLAISE’’; ‘‘MUSEUM PARIS/ (COLL. PH.FRANÇOIS)/ COLL. L. BEDEL 1922’’; ‘‘TYPE’’; [partly handwritten] ‘‘ Blaiseus / Bedeli Fleut./ type/ FLEU- TIAUX det.’’ and with the author’s red designation label ‘‘ LECTOTYPE / Blaiseus / bedeli/ Fleutiaux desig./Douglas 2006’’ with genitalia glued to card with specimen ( NMHN).

Type locality: Vietnam, Bac Giang Province, Luc Nam (Not known precisely).

90 Diagnosis. Pterothorax: Scutellum with posterior apex truncate (Fig. 4); elytra with apices not upturned. Legs: Protibiae with posterior tooth at apex but not at midlength.

Redescription. Male: Length 6.0 mm. Integument brown with red-brown elytral humeral patches (Fig. 4). Head: Antennae (broken in lectotype) reaching to at least mesocoxae; labrum flat in side view. Prothorax: Hypomeron with hind edge

92 sinuate immediately meso-ventrad of hind angles ( Fig. 1 ). Prosternum with ventral surface of prosternal process surface weakly carinate laterally. Ptero-

thorax: Scutellum with posterior apex truncate (Fig. 4). Elytra not upturned at apex; intervals 4–6 costate on apical half; epipleurae with rounded serrations. Hind wings with CuA1 forked at junction with MP3+4, forming an additional closed cell (Fig. 7). Legs: Femora and tibiae expanded (fossorial); protibiae with posterior tooth at apex but not at midlength; tarsi with tarsomere 4 lobed.

Genitalia: Aedeagus with median lobe broadest near apex, apex not concave mesally ( Fig. 17 ); parameres with dorsal (setose) apices longer than ventral apices; inner parameres sclerotized. Female: Unknown.

Comments. I have not seen hind wing vein CuA1 forked in any other Elateridae except this species and B. nothoafricanus new species. However, a separate second crossvein near to CuA1 is found in one or both wings of some specimens ( Johnson 1995) of Deronocus sleeperi (Becker) . Known from only the type locality. A catalogue record of this species from Guangdong Province, P.R. China (Cate 2007) was not investigated and may refer to a different Blaiseus species.

Figures

Figs. 1–2. Lateral view of pronotum of Blaiseus spp. 1) B. malayensis new species; 2) B. nothoafricanus new species. Arrows indicate concavity of hypomeron immediately mesoventrad of hind angles. Scale bar 5 1 mm. Figs. 3–4. Dorsal view of scutellum of Blaiseus spp. 3) B. mexicanus new species; 4) B. bedeli Fleutiaux. Scale bar 5 1 mm. Figs. 5– 6. Dorsal view of protibia of Blaiseus spp. 5) B. mexicanus new species; 6) B. guatemalensis new species. m 5 tooth at midlength; a 5 apical tooth. Scale bar 5 1 mm. Fig. 7. Wing of Blaiseus bedeli Fleutiaux. Arrows indicate forked vein CuA1. Scale bar 5 2 mm.

Figs. 17–26. Dorsal view of aedeagi of Blaiseus spp. 17) B. bedeli Fleutiaux; 18) B. chiapasensis new species; 19) B. daklakensis new species; 20) B. fujianus new species; 21) B. guatemalensis new species; 22) B. laoensis new species; 23) B. malayensis new species; 24) B. mexicanus new species; 25) B. nothoafricanus new species; 26) B. zamoranoensis new species. d 5 dorsal apex of parameres; i 5 inner apex; v 5 ventral apex. Scale bar 5 1.0 mm.