Microhoria garavuti Kejval, 2020

Kejval, Zbyněk & Chandler, Donald S., 2020, Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 95-154 : 135

Microhoria garavuti Kejval , sp. nov. ( Figs 5 , 100 , 152 )

Type locality. Tajikistan, Aruk-Tau Mts, Garavuti.

Type material. HOLOTYPE:, ‘USSR Tadžikistan Aruk-Tau 20.4.78 / Garavuti / Sv. Bílý lgt. [p]’ ( NMPC) . PARATYPES: 2, same data as holotype ( NMPC); 7, ‘USSR-Tadžikistan 21.4.1978 Aruk-Tau (cca 600 m) Gara-Vuti env. (pr. Šaartuz) J. Strejček lgt. [p]’ ( ZKDC).

Description. Male (holotype). Body length 3.6 mm. Body brown, with slight greenish reflection, elytra unicolorous ( Fig. 152 ); femora brownish, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown, antennae reddish-brown, terminal antennomeres darker.

Head elongate, 1.3 times as long as wide, somewhat widely rounded posteriorly; eyes medium-sized, moderately convex. Surface moderately glossy, minutely but distinctly punctate and slightly shagreened; punctures distinctly spaced; setation short, subdecumbent.Antennae moderately enlarged for apical third; antennomeres X 1.2 times, XI 2.5 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.1 times as long as wide, slightly narrower than head including eyes, evenly rounded anteriorly, pronotal disc evenly and moderately convex, outline in dorsal view with lateral margins nearly straightly narrowing posteriorly. Surface moderately glossy, punctate, slightly shagreened; punctation and setation as on head, with some very short erect setae.

Elytra 1.8 times as long as wide, subparallel, somewhat flattened medially in basal half; humeri distinctly protruding; apices modified, somewhat bulging, channel of gland forming short tubular process. Surface moderately glossy, densely punctate; punctation and setation slightly coarser than on head, with scattered short erect setae.

Figures

Figs 1–6. 1 – Liparoderus venator (Dufour, 1849), Spain, Zaragoza (D. Molina det., photo by B. Campo, www.biodiversidadvirtual.org.). 2 – Microhoria raveli (Pic, 1899), female internal reproductive structures, after DE MARZO (1996). 3–6 – Aedeagus in ventral view: 3 – Sapintus oceanicus (LaFerté- Sénectère, 1849), India, Tamil Nadu, Poovar (ZKDC); 4 – Anthelephila cyanea (Hope, 1833), South Africa, Western Cape prov., Greyton (ZKDC); 5 – Microhoria garavuti sp. nov., holotype; 6 – M. cervi sp. nov., paratype, Al Mughsayl (a = parameral plate, b = phallobase, c = baculi of endophallus, d = primary gonopore). Scale not specified.

Figs 100–104. 100 – Microhoria garavuti sp. nov., aedeagus in ventral (left) and lateral (right) view; 101 – M. hazara sp. nov., aedeagus in ventral (left) and lateral (right) view; 102 – same, detail of structure of endophallus; 103 – M. halophila sp. nov. aedeagus in lateral view; 104 – M. gibbipennis sp. nov., aedeagus in lateral view. Scale bar: 0.2 mm (except 102).

Figs 151–163. 151–155 – Habitus: 151 – Microhoria bacillisternum sp. nov.; 152 – M. garavuti sp. nov.; 153 – M. gibbipennis sp. nov.; 154 – M. heracleana sp. nov., paratype, Stomio (ZKDC); 155 – M. truncatipennis (Pic, 1897) comb. nov. 156–161 – pronotum and base of head and elytra: 156 – M. angelinii (Degiovanni, 2012) comb. nov.; 157 – M. persica sp. nov., paratype (ZKDC); 158 – M. gibbipennis sp. nov.; 159 – M. truncatipennis; 160 – M. vosseleri (Pic, 1894); 161 – Microhoria sp., Spain, Jarama River env., near Madrid (ZFMK). 162 – M. depressa (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849), Azerbaijan, Zarat (ZKDC), apex of female tergum VII; 163 – M. gibbipennis sp. nov., apex of female tergum VII.