Laemoglyptus bhutanensis, 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 : 455-457

Laemoglyptus bhutanensis sp. nov.

( Fig. 20 )

Type locality. Bhutan, 125 km from Phuntsholing.

Type material. HOLOTYPE ( NHMB): ♂, “[ Bhutan] 125 km von Phuntsholing, 24/5 [white label, printed and handwritten] / Nat.–Hist.Museum Basel / Bhutan Expedition 1972 [white label, printed]”. PARATYPES ( NHMB, NMPC): same label data, 1♂ 2♀♀; “[ Bhutan] Phuntsholing, 2400 m, 22.4. [white label, printed and handwritten] / Nat.–Hist. Museum Basel / Bhutan Expedition 1972 [white label, printed]”.

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae sooty to black, mandibles ferrugineous. Prothorax orange to terra-cotta with pair of narrow, mediolongitudinal sepia stripes slightly diverging posteriorly. Elytra sepia to sooty, legs chestnut brown to sepia, knees sometimes 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 fourths of elytral length, projections of antennomeres 3–10 more or less, but always distinctly longer than each antennomere. Surface of head very finely and very sparsely punctate, with fine, semisparse, recumbent brown pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum similar as that in Fig. 2 , posterolateral emarginations open. 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, yellow, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Fig. 20 .

Female. Eyes much smaller and less protruding than in male, antennae serrate, reaching almost elytral midlength.

Length (both sexes). 6.6–8.0 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Laemoglyptus bhutanensis sp. nov. is most similar to L. weigeli Kazantsev, 2009 (cf. KAZANTSEV 2009) in the shape and length of the fused parameres and for the dorsal part of the aedeagus being apically more narrowed, but differing from this species by the more narrowed and lateraly concave divided portions of the dorsal part of the aedeagus and having the laterophyses dentate on their inner sides and divergent terminally. The other species of the L. bhutanensis -subgroup possess either longer parameres or a differently shapep apical portion of the dorsal part of the aedeagus (as in L. jaegeri Kazantsev, 2009 (cf. KAZANTSEV 2009)).

Etymology. Named according to the country of its occurrence.

Distribution. Bhutan.

Figures

Figs. 18–21. Aedeagus, ventral aspect. 18 – Laemoglyptus bomfordii Fairmaire, 1897; 19 – L. ater godawariensis subsp. nov.; 20 – L. bhutanensis sp. nov.; 21 – L. himalaicus himalaicus sp. nov.

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.