Laemoglyptus vicinoides, Švihla & Kopetz, 2012

Švihla, Vladimír & Kopetz, Andreas, 2012, A review of the genus Laemoglyptus from the Himalayas (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2), pp. 443-466 : 462

Laemoglyptus vicinoides sp. nov.

( Fig. 24 )

Type locality. Bhutan, Puntsholing, 3000 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE ( NHMB): ♂, “ Puntsholing , 3000 m, 21.III.–2.IV. / Bhutan, 1983, J. C. Rai [white labels, printed and handwritten]” . PARATYPE ( NHMB): same labels data, 1 ♀.

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae sooty to black, mandibles ferrugineous. Prothorax orange to terra-cotta. Elytra sooty, legs sepia, knees paler. Meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sepia.

Male. Eyes big and strongly protruding, head across eyes moderately narrower than pronotum, antennae moderately exceeding three fourth of elytral length, projections of antennomeres 3–10 ca. as long as each antennomere. Surface of head very finely and very sparsely punctate, with fine, semisparse, recumbent brown pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum similar as that in Fig. 4 , posterolateral emargination closed. Surface of pronotum like that of head punctate, finely and sparsely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Elytra slightly wider than pronotum, moderately dilated posteriorly, elytral venation slightly developed to absent. Surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose, with fine, brown, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Fig. 24 .

Female. Eyes much smaller and less protruding than in male, antennae serrate, reaching ca one third of elytral length.

Length (both sexes). 6.4 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Laemoglyptus vicinoides sp. nov. by both its habitus and the shape of the aedeagus strongly resembles L. vicinus Pic, 1921 , from which it differs by the absence of short oblique elevations on the inner side of the dorsal part of the aedeagus (cf. Figs. 24–25 ).

Etymology. The specific name vicinoides reffers to the great affinity to L. vicinus .

Distribution. Bhutan.

Figures

Figs. 22–25. 22–23 – Laemoglyptus cechovskyi sp. nov. (22 – aedeagus, ventral aspect; 23 – ditto, oblique lateral aspect); 24–25 – aedeagus, ventral aspect. 24 – L. vicinoides sp. nov.; 25 – L. vicinus Pic, 1921.

Figs. 1–8. 1–4 – pronotum. 1 – Laemoglyptus walteri sp. nov; 2 – L. bom- fordii Fairmaire, 1897; 3 – L. schmidti Kazantsev, 2009; 4 – L. vicinus Pic, 1921; 5–6 – antenna of male. 5 – L. himalayanus himalayanus sp. nov.; 6 – L. himalayanus sikkimensis ssp. nov.; 7–8 – L. ramiferus (Champion, 1926). 7 – apical portion of aedeagus, lateral aspect; 8 – apex of dorsal part of aedeagus, dorsal aspect.