Laemoglyptus bilyi, 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 : 452-454

Laemoglyptus bilyi sp. nov.

( Figs. 14–15 )

Type locality. Nepal, Eastern Region, Hille, 2000 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE ( NMPC):♂, “E Nepal, Hille , 2000 m, 28.4.1988, S. Bílý lgt. [white label, handwritten]” . PARATYPES ( NMPC, AKEG): same label data, 9 ♂♂ ; “E Nepal, 28.4.1988, Hille, S. Bílý leg. [white label, printed]”, 1 ♂ 12 ♀♀ .

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae black, mandibles ferrugineous. Prothorax orange to terra-cotta. Elytra sooty to black, legs sepia to black, 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, sparse, recumbent grey 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, grey, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 14–15 .

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

Length (both sexes). 5.8–7.0 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Laemoglyptus bilyi sp. nov. is very similar to L. chimakothiensis sp. nov., from which it differs by the apically deeply emarginated and more curved apices of the fused parameres (cf. Figs. 14–17 ).

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Svatopluk Bílý (NMPC).

Distribution. Nepal: Eastern Region.

Figures

Figs. 14–17. Aedeagus, ventral (14, 16) and oblique lateral aspects (15, 17). 14–15 – Laemoglyptus bilyi sp. nov.; 16–17 – L. chimakothiensis 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.