Lycocerus murzini, Švihla, Vladimír, 2011

Švihla, Vladimír, 2011, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III, Zootaxa 2895, pp. 1-34 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277686
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6183635
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C07C4C-FFAE-8A0A-FF29-A08119C7FA63
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lycocerus murzini
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Lycocerus murzini sp. nov.

Figs. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 9. 1 – 9 , 32–34 View FIGURES 28 – 37. 28 – 29 .

Type locality. China, southern Sichuan province, Dafengding Mts., 50 km N of Meigu, 3100 m a.s.l.

Type material. Holotype ( NMEG), male, “ China, S Sichuan Prov.[ince], mts. Dafengding, 3100 m, 50 km N Meigu, 14.–16.VIII.2007, S. Murzin leg. [white label, printed] / LYCOCERUS c.f. viridinitidus PIC, det. A. Kopetz 2009 [white label, printed]”. Paratypes ( AKKG, NMPC, RCSF), same label data, 5 males.

Description. Coloration ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 9. 1 – 9 ). Head metallic sapphire blue, mandibles terracotta, maxillary palpi and antennae black. Prothorax and elytra metallic sapphire blue, scutellum black, legs black, claws terracotta, ventral side of abdomen sooty.

Male. Eyes large and protruding, head across eyes slightly wider than pronotum, behind eyes strongly narrowing posteriorly, sides of head behind eyes almost straight. Antennae reaching ca two thirds of elytral length, filiform, antennomeres without visible impressions. Surface of head very finely and very sparsely punctate, with very sparse, yellow semierect pubescence, lustrous. Pronotum about as long as wide, anterior margin widely convex, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins almost straight, diverging posteriorly, posterior corners nearly rectangular, posterior margin widely convex. Surface of pronotum punctate and pubescent like that of head, lustrous. Outer claws of pro- and mesotarsus with basal projections. Elytra parallel-sided to very slightly dilated posteriorly, surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose with fine, sparse, semirecumbent yellow pubescence, semilustrous. Elytral venation absent. Aedeagus as in Figs. 32–34 View FIGURES 28 – 37. 28 – 29 .

Female unknown.

Length (male). 6.5–7.3 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Lycocerus murzini sp. nov. is very similar to Lycocerus sichuanus ( Wittmer, 1995) (Sichuan) in body form, coloration and shape of the aedeagus, but differs in having narrower parameres, inner teeth of dorsal part of the aedeagus situated far from apex and, especially, by the presence of basal appendages on outer claws in pro- and mesotarsi in the male (cf. Wittmer 1995). Maybe in the future it could be treated as only a subspecies of the latter species.

Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to its collector, Sergey V. Murzin (Moscow, Russia).

Distribution. China: Sichuan province.