Laemoglyptus cechovskyi, 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 : 457-458

Laemoglyptus cechovskyi sp. nov.

( Figs. 22–23 )

Type locality. Nepal, Central Region, Bagmati zone, Rasuwa Distr., Langtang Nat.Park, Dunche – Barkhu – Syaburu, 2000–2800 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE ( NHMB): ♂, “ NEPAL Centr., Bagmati Zone, Rasuwa Distr. / Langtang Nat. P. , Dunche–Barkhu–Syaburu / 2000–2800 m, 6.–13.V.1996, P. Čechovský [white labels, printed]”.

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

Male. Eyes big and strongly protruding, head across eyes moderately narrower than pronotum, antennae slightly exceeding three fourths 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. 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. Surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose, with fine, brown, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 22–23 .

Female unknown.

Length (♂). 8.8 mm.

Differential diagnosis. The aedeagus of Laemoglyptus cechovskyi sp. nov. most resembles that of L. jaegeri Kazantsev, 2009 , from which it differs by the much more deeply emarginate apex of the dorsal part of the aedeagus and the presence of lateral inner projections of this part, situated in ca. the midlength of it. In the other species of L. bhutanensis -subgroup there is not such a strongly curved apical portions of the dorsal part (as in L. himalayanus sp. nov.) and/or the apical emargination is much wider and rounded (cf. Figs. 22–23 and KAZANTSEV 2009).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Petr Čechovský (Brno, Czech Republic).

Distribution. Nepal: Central Region.

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.