Mimopodabrus rectiangulatus, Švihla, 2005

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 81-82

Mimopodabrus rectiangulatus sp. nov.

( Figs. 22-23 )

Type locality. China, Sichuan Province, Jintang, Liang He Kou.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ China - Sichuan, Jintang, Lian g he kou [sic!], 17.-21.vi.2004, leg. E. Kučera’ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head black, mouthparts honey yellow to sienna, antennae sooty, antennomeres 1 and 2 slightly paler. Thorax and ventral part of abdomen black, femora black, tibiae and tarsi sooty. Scutellum black, elytra black, in basal half with narrow pale lemonyellow epipleural margin.

Male. Eyes large, strongly protruding, head across eyes slightly wider than pronotum, temples arcuate and convergent posteriorly. Antennae reaching almost two thirds of elytral length, filiform, antennomeres 4-8 each with small, very indistinct rounded impression. Surface of head very finely and densely puncticulate, sparsely and finely yellow pubescent, matt and velvety. Pronotum as long as wide, its anterior margin straight, anterior corners widely, roundly and obliquely cut, lateral margins bisinuate and diverging posteriorly, posterior corners almost sharp, posterior margin widely and bisinuately arcuate. Surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent like that of head, matt and velvety. Elytra very slightly widened posteriorly, elytral nervation absent, surface of elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 22 and 23 . Female unknown.

Length J: 7.4 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Mimopodabrus rectiangulatus sp. nov. is, given the the shape of the aedeagus, related to M. yunnanus ( Wittmer, 1993) from Yunnan, M. singularis Wittmer, 1997 from Sichuan and M. oudai Švihla, 2004 from Sichuan. It differs from all of them by the nearly rectangular shape of the dorsal part of the aedeagus and partly yellow epipleura (cf. WITTMER 1993, 1997; ŠVIHLA 2004).

Etymology. Derived from the Latin rectiangulus = rectangular, in reference to the shape of the dorsal part of the aedeagus.

Distribution. China: Sichuan.

Figures

Figs. 18-24. 18 – Micropodabrus jendeki sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus. 19 – M. laosensis sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus. 20-21 – M. kresli sp. nov., paramere. 20 – ventral view; 21 – lateral view. 22-23 – Mimopodabrus rectiangulatus sp. nov. 22 – aedeagus, ventral view; 23 – ditto, lateral view. 24 – M. reductus sp. nov., aedeagus, lateral view. Scales a – Figs. 18-21; b – Figs. 22-24.