Laemoglyptus chimakothiensis, 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 : 454

Laemoglyptus chimakothiensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 16–17 )

Type locality. Bhutan, Chimakothi, 1900–2300 m a.s.l.

Type material. HOLOTYPE ( NHMB): ♂, “[ Bhutan] Chimakothi , 1900/[–]2300 [m], 14.5. [white label, printed and handwritten] / Nat.–Hist. Museum Basel – Bhutan Expedition 1972 [white label, printed]”. PARATYPES ( NHMB, NMPC): same labels data 2 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀.

Description. Coloration. Head including antennae sooty to black, mandibles ferrugineous. Prothorax orange to terra-cotta. Elytra sooty, legs 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 almost reaching three fourth 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 emargination almost 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, grey, short semierect pubescence, matt to semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 16–17 .

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

Length (both sexes). 6.6–7.2 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Laemoglyptus chimakothiensis sp. nov. is very similar to L. bilyi sp. nov., from which it differs by the narrower and almost apically non-emarginate and less curved apex of the fused parameres (cf. Figs. 14–17 ).

Etymology. Named according to its type locality.

Distribution. Bhutan.

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.