Cautires pahangensis, Jiruskova & Motyka & Bocak, 2016

Jiruskova, Alice, Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016, High diversity and endemism in the genus Cautires Waterhouse, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from the Malay mountain forests, with the descriptions of fourteen new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 219 (219), pp. 1-29 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.219
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:638FB522-533A-4EF7-9582-2E0ADF798777
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3853437
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2616E587-EEC1-4C9E-90CD-F5D5F85793DB
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treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Cautires pahangensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Cautires pahangensis sp. nov.

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Figs 16 View Figs 2–20 , 34 View Figs 21–38 , 54 View Figs 41–58 , 72 View Figs 59–78

Diagnosis

Cautires pahangensis sp. nov. is a mountain species with a bright pubescent humeral part of the elytra and a reddish pubescence on the pronotum. It has moderately long antennal lamellae ( Fig. 16 View Figs 2–20 ) and a slender phallus with a gradually widened part and a pointed apex ( Fig. 72 View Figs 59–78 ).

Etymology

The specific epithet refers to the Malay state Pahang where the holotype of C. pahangensis sp. nov. was collected.

Type material

Holotype

MALAYSIA: ♁, Pahang, Tanah Rata , 1600 m, 3–20 Feb. 2005 (VK0527).

Measurements

BL 9.3 mm, PL 1.15 mm, PW 1.75 mm, HW 1.0 mm, Edist 0.53 mm, Ediam 0.58 mm, LP 1.49 mm.

Description of the male

Body quite slender, black, upper side bicoloured, pronotum orange, elytra black except basal fifth of primary and secondary elytral costae bearing orange pubescence ( Fig. 54 View Figs 41–58 ). Head small, eyes hemispherically prominent, quite large, eye diameter 1.09 times interocular distance. Antennae flabellate with moderately long lamellae ( Fig. 16 View Figs 2–20 ). Pronotal disc mat, with 7 areolae, median areola complete, but ridges forming median areola obtuse similarly to postero-lateral ridges, median areola attached directly to basal margin of pronotum; anterior angles obtuse, lateral margins slightly concave, lateral part of pronotum strongly elevated, posterior angles robust but prominent ( Fig. 34 View Figs 21–38 ). Elytra apparently widened apically, primary and secondary costae well developed, transverse costae dense ( Fig. 54 View Figs 41–58 ). Phallus moderately robust, widest in apical third, slightly pointed at apex ( Fig. 72 View Figs 59–78 ).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia: Pahang. This species is known in a single specimen only.