Microhoria sulaimanica 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 : 129-130

Microhoria sulaimanica Kejval , sp. nov. ( Figs 89 , 144 )

Type locality. Pakistan, Balochistan Province, Sulaiman Mts, Zhob valley [ca. 31°21′N 69°27′E], alt. 1700 m.

Type material. HOLOTYPE:, ‘ Pakistan , Sulaiman Mts, Zhob valley, 1700 m, viii.2005 [p; no collector]’ ( NMPC) . PARATYPES: 1, same data as holotype ( ZKDC); 6, ‘ UZBEKISTAN: Suzkhandaria Area, Djarkuzgen Town, 18.V.2003, leg. V. Gurko’ ( ADBC, ZKDC).

Description. Male (holotype). Body length 2.8 mm. Head largely reddish-brown, paler anteriorly, pronotum reddish, elytra yellowish with vaguely outlined dark markings: base, transverse band at about midlength, apices and suture brown ( Fig. 144 ); legs reddish, antennae reddish-brown, darkened on apical third.

Head elongate, 1.3 times as long as wide, narrowed and evenly rounded posteriorly; eyes small, moderately convex. Surface glossy, minutely and rather densely punctate; punctures well-spaced; setation short, subdecumbent, with few erect setae. Antennae slightly enlarged for apical half; antennomeres X 1.4 times, XI 2.8 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.1 times as long as wide, as wide as head including eyes, evenly rounded anteriorly, pronotal disc moderately convex, outline in dorsal view with lateral margins narrowing and moderately impressed posteriorly. Surface glossy, densely punctate; punctation and setation of pronotal disc as on head; lateral sides along antebasal sulcus with dense fringed setation.

Elytra 1.7 times as long as wide; humeri distinctly protruding; omoplates slightly indicated; apices modified, channel of gland forming cavity at pointed protrusion of margin. Surface moderately glossy, distinctly and rather densely punctate; punctation coarser than on head, setation as on head, with scattered short erect setae.

Legs slender, simple; all tibiae with paired terminal spurs.

Abdominal sternum VII simple, evenly rounded apically; sternum VIII forming paired, subtriangular, asetose sclerites. Aedeagus ( Fig. 89 ): tegmen shortly tubular and emarginate apically; endophallic armature with numerous spines, forming bunches and arranged in longitudinal paired rows.

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Body length () 2.8–2.9 mm; the paratype with dark transverse band of elytra interrupted medially, with partly yellowish suture.

Differential diagnosis. Microhoria sulaimanica sp. nov. appears to be most similar to M. almukalla sp. nov., as suggested by similarities of the male characters, but differs as follows: body more pale coloured (largely reddish), head more produced posteriorly, pronotum minutely punctate and with conspicuous, dense, latero-basal setation (rather uniformly setose in M. almukalla sp. nov.), terminal antennomeres in males elongate, 2.8 times as long as wide (2.4 times in M. almukalla sp. nov.), endophallic armature with paired rows of robust spines (cf. Figs 89 versus 86).

Etymology. Named after the Sulaiman Mountains; the name is an adjective.

Distribution. Pakistan, Uzbekistan.

Figures

Figs 88–92. 88 – Microhoria cervi sp. nov., aedeagus in ventral view; 89 – M. sulaimanica sp. nov., aedeagus in ventral view. 90–92 – male sternum VIII: 90 – M. sawda sp. nov.; 91 – M. bacillisternum sp. nov.; 92 – M. cervi sp. nov. Scale bars: 0.2 mm – A (Fig. 92), B (Figs 89–91), C (Fig. 88).

Figs 138–150. 138–147 – Habitus: 138 – Microhoria ocreata (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1847) comb. nov.; 139 – M. oedipus (Chevrolat, 1860); 140 – M. olivacea (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849) comb. nov.; 141 – M. paupercula (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849) comb. nov.; 142 – M. babaulti (Pic, 1921) comb. nov.; 143 – M. cervi sp. nov.; 144 – M. sulaimanica sp. nov., paratype; 145 – M. terminata (W. L. E. Schmidt, 1842); 146 – M. anahita sp. nov.; 147 – M. angelinii (Degiovanni, 2012) comb. nov.; 148 – M. apicordiger (Bonadona, 1958) comb. nov., apex of elytra; 150 – M. gibbipennis sp. nov., apex of elytra; 150 – M. angelinii, apex of female tergum VII.