Lucanopria wagneri Audisio & Cline, 2009

Audisio, Paolo, Cline, Andrew Richard, Biase, Alessio De, Antonini, Gloria, Mancini, Emiliano, Trizzino, Marco, Costantini, Lorenzo, Strika, Sirio, Lamanna, Francesco & Cerretti, Pierfilippo, 2009, Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2), pp. 341-504 : 481

Lucanopria wagneri Audisio & Cline , sp. nov.

( Figs. 38 a–k ) Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, RWANDA: community of Nyakabuye, Cyamudongo cloud montane rain forest, x.1993, 1700 m, T.Wagner leg., by insecticidal canopy fogging of Carapa grandiflora Sprague (Meliaceae) (ZFMK). PARATYPES: 6 JJ 5 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ZFMK, CAR, NMPC).

Description and diagnosis. See above generic description of Lucanopria gen. nov.

Body length 1.6–2.0 mm; width 0.7–1.0 mm; body moderately flat and elongate, orangeyellowish, with infuscate scutellum, and a slightly darker elytral circum-scutellar area in some specimens; lateral sides of pronotum markedly paler ( Fig. 38a ). Morphological male variability as described above.

Male genitalia as described above ( Figs. 38f–g ).

Female genitalia as described above ( Fig. 38h ).

Etymology. This new species is named for a German entomologist, our friend Thomas Wagner (Koblenz), a renowned specialist on Chrysomelidae and collector of the entire type series.

Biology. See generic section above.

Geographic distribution. This new species is known only from the above listed type material collected in Rwanda.

Figures

Fig. 38. Lucanopria Audisio & Cline, gen.nov.: a– k – L. wagneri Audisio & Cline, sp. nov.a – male habitus (length 1.9 mm); b – ventral view of head (width – 0.62 mm); c – prosternal process (width – 0.18 mm); d – male pygidium; e – female elytral apex; f–g – male genitalia (f – length 0.15 mm; g – length 0.18 mm); h – ovipositor (length 0.38 mm); k – exposed (below dashed line) and obscured (above dashed line) portions of last visible abdominal ventrite (abdominal width 0.85 mm).