Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899

Fang, Chen, Yang, Yuxia, Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu, 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899 (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of six new species from China, ZooKeys 1203, pp. 325-354 : 325-354

Genus Ponyalis Fairmaire, 1899

Diagnosis.

Body length 9.5–15.0 mm, brown to black, pronotum red or black, elytra uniformly red but sometimes black at margins. Head small, hemispherical eyes prominent. Antennae flabellate in males, while serrate in females; antennomere I abruptly widened near base and nearly globular or flattened dorsally, II very short, III nearly triangular, IV – X triangular to lamellate, IX slender. Pronotum subquadrate, with all margins almost straight. Elytra flat to weakly convex, subparallel-sided, usually wider in female than male; each elytron with four primary and five secondary longitudinal and many transverse costae, elytral cells mostly squared, sometimes strongly transverse. Male genitalia robust, phallus long and present with a pair of lateral thorns apically, more or less projected distad at apical margin, internal sac usually invaginated, with only apex exposed, which is a slender or thorn-shaped tube, sometimes hardly visible.

Included species.

P. alternata ( Pic, 1927) , P. cincinnatus Kazantsev, 2002 , P. chifengleei Kazantsev, 2002 , P. daucinus Kazantsev, 2002 , P. dolosa ( Kleine, 1924) , P. fukiensis ( Bocak, 1999) , P. gestroi Pic, 1912 , P. gracilis ( Bocak, 1999) , P. himalejica ( Bourgeois, 1885) , P. ishigakiana ( Nakane, 1961) , P. klapperichi ( Bocak, 1999) , P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 , P. nigrohumeralis ( Pic, 1938) , P. oshimana ( Nakane, 1961) , P. quadricollis ( Kiesenwetter, 1874) , P. sichuanensis ( Bocak, 1999) , P. tryznai ( Bocak, 1999) , P. variabilis Li, Pang & Bocak, 2015 ., P. longicornis sp. nov., P. truncata sp. nov., P. dabieshanensis sp. nov., P. hainanensis sp. nov., P. quadricollimima sp. nov., P. zhejiangensis sp. nov.

Distribution

(Fig. 1 ). China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, India.

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution map of Ponyalis in the world.

Figure 2. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis alternata (Pic, 1927) (A, B); P. fukiensis (Bocak, 1999) (C, D). A, C males B, D females. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 3. Aedeagi of Ponyalis alternata (Pic, 1927) (A – C); P. fukiensis (Bocak, 1999) (D – F); P. himalejica (Bourgeois, 1885) (G – I); P. gracilis (Bocak, 1999) (J – L). A, D, G, J ventral views B, E, H, K dorsal views C, F, I, L lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 4. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis himalejica (Bourgeois, 1885) (A – C); P. gracilis (Bocak, 1999) (D). A, D males B, C females. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 5. Aedeagi of Ponyalis klapperichi (Bocak, 1999) (A – C); P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 (D – F); P. nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1939) (G – I); P. variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015 (J – L). A, D, G, J ventral views B, E, H, K dorsal views C, F, I, L lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 6. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis klapperichi (Bocak, 1999) (A, B); P. laticornis Fairmaire, 1899 (C, D). A, C, D males B female. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 7. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis nigrohumeralis (Pic, 1939) (A, B); P. variabilis Li, Bocak & Pang, 2015 (C, D). A, C males; B, D females. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 8. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis dabieshanensis sp. nov. (A, B); P. truncata sp. nov. (C). A, C males B female. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 9. Aedeagi of Ponyalis dabieshanensis sp. nov. (A – C); P. truncata sp. nov. (D – F); P. quadricollis (Kiesenwetter, 1874) (G – I); P. quadricollimima sp. nov. (J – L). A, D, G, J ventral views B, E, H, K dorsal views C, F, I, L lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 10. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis quadricollis (Kiesenwetter, 1874) (A); P. quadricollimima sp. nov. (B); P. longicornis sp. nov. (C). A – C males. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.

Figure 11. Aedeagi of Ponyalis longicornis sp. nov. (A – C); P. zhejiangensis sp. nov. (D – F); hainanensis sp. nov. (G – I). A, D, G ventral views B, E, H dorsal views C, F, I lateral views. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Figure 12. Habitus, dorsal view: Ponyalis zhejiangensis sp. nov. (A, B); P. hainanensis sp. nov. (C, D). A, C males B, D females. Scale bars: 2.0 mm.