Zikanita perpulchra Lane, 1943

(Figure 3 (a – g))

Zikanita perpulchra Lane, 1943: 262; Monné, 2018: 310 (cat.).

The species was described based on four specimens (holotype female, two female paratypes, one paratype of unknown sex). Machado and Monné (2011) figured a male of the species, but did not provide differences between male and female.

Males differ from females as follows: body (Figure 3 (d)) slightly narrower (wider in female (Figure 3 (a)); antennae (Figure 3 (d)) slightly longer, 1.74 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex at basal third of antennomere VIII (shorter, 1.56 times elytral length, reaching elytral apex at apex of antennomere VIII in female (Figure 3 (a)); abdominal ventrite V (Figure 3 (e)) shorter, wider, not depressed centrally (longer, narrower, depressed centrally in female (Figure 3 (c)).

Material examined

BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Itatiaia (700 m), 1 male, 28 January 1938, coll . J .F . Zikán (MZSP); (1100 m), 1 female, January 1972, no collector indicated (MZSP, former Diringshofen collection) .