Review of the Genus Dendrocellus Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini), with Descriptions of Seven New Species Liang, Hongbin Kavanaugh, David H. The Coleopterists Bulletin 2007 Oxford, England 2007-03-31 61 1 1 39 34P52 Liang and Kavanaugh Liang and Kavanaugh 2007 [239,744,1107,1129] Insecta Carabidae Dendrocellus GBIF Animalia Coleoptera 14 Arthropoda species bicoloripennis sp. nov.  ( Figs. 109–112)  Types.  Holotype: a male ( CBNH), ‘‘ Malawi: Chitipa District, Jembya Reserve,  18 kmSSE Chisenga.10-08S, 33-27E,  1,870 m.  11–20 Dec 1988, J. Rawlins, S. Thomson’’/‘‘ HOLOTYPE,  Dendrocellus bicoloripennisLiang & Kavanaugh n. sp., designated by H. B. Liang & D. H. Kavanaugh 2006’’ [red label].  Paratypes(total 4 specimens): 3 females( 1 in CAS, 2 in CBNH), same collecting locality and collectors but ‘‘  1–10 Jan 1989 ’’; 1 female( CBNH), same collecting locality and collectors but ‘‘  11–20 Jan 1989’’.     Typelocality.  18 kmSSE of Chisenga, Jembya Reserve, Malawi.   Diagnosis.Pronotum reddish brown; elytra with bluish-green luster at basal three-fourths, black or dark purple at apical fourth; hind femora with apical half or two-thirds black, tibiae black; tarsal claw pectinations very short, the longest pectination shorter than one-forth width of claw base.   Description.Length: 9.8–11.3 mm, width: 3.2–3.4 mm. Head and abdominal sterna with blue luster; neck, pronotum, scutellum, thoracic sterna, episterna, and epimera, Ant 2–11, and basal half of femora red or brown; elytra with bluish-green luster at basal three-fourths, black or dark purple at apical fourth with an anteriorly directed triangular extension along suture; apical half or two-thirds of femora, tibiae, tarsomeres 1–3, and apical third of Ant 1 black; basal two-thirds of Ant 1, Ant 2–11, tarsomeres 4–5 brown or yellow. Head densely punctate on vertex; labrum with medial lobe slightly protruded anteriorly; Ant 1/Ant 3 53.22 (3.13– 3.31); genae developed, strongly tumid; eyes large, convex, 1.8 times as long as genae. Pronotum short, cylindrical, widest slightly before middle, PL/PW 51.29 (1.26–1.35), HW/PW 51.15 (1.14–1.16); slightly widened from apical angles to middle, then narrowed posteriad, strongly sinuate before basal angles; basal angles obtuse, strongly protruded laterally. Elytra wide, densely punctate throughout; lateral margins nearly parallel in basal forth, distintly widened posteriad to apical fourth, then narrowed to apex; EL/EW 51.69 (1.63–1.73), EW/PW 52.16 (2.11– 2.25); striae effaced, almost invisible (only striae 1–3 traceable in apical regions); outer apical angles nearly round, only vaguely angulate. Protarsomere 3 strongly asymmetrical in male; tarsal claws with 5–6 min pectinations, length of the longest pectination less than one-fifth width of claw base ( Fig. 110). Aedeagus stout, with apical lamella moderately long, thin, linguiform, rounded at apex ( Figs. 111–112).   Distribution. Malawi.   Etymology.This species is named for the pattern of two different colors on the elytra.   Remarks.Members of this new species are similar to those of African Dryptinispecies  Drypta ruficollisDejean, 1831,  Drypta thoracicaBoheman, 1848, and  Dendrocellus australisPéringueyin having red pronota, but differ from them in having slender tarsal claws with short pectinations (in  Drypta ruficollisand  Drypta thoracicaspecimens, the tarsal claws are smooth; and in  Dendrocellus australisspecimens, the tarsal claws have long pectinations). The bicolored elytral color pattern and effaced elytral striae appear to be unique in the genus (in other members of the genus, the elytra are unicolored, and all striae are distinct). 1988-12-11 1988-12-20 1988-12-11 CBNH J. Rawlins & S. Thomson' Malawi 1870 Jembya Reserve 14 1 Chitipa holotype 1989-01-01 1989-01-10 1989-01-01 CAS, CBNH Malawi 14 7 3 Chitipa paratype 1989-01-11 1989-01-20 1989-01-11 CBNH Malawi 14 1 1 Chitipa paratype [170,838,1361,1383] Malawi Jembya Reserve 14 1 holotype