Mimopodabrus reductus, 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 : 82-83

Mimopodabrus reductus sp. nov.

( Figs. 24–25 )

Type locality. China, Sichuan Province, Qian Qi, 55 km N of Baoxing, 2150-2300 m a.s.l. Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ China: Sichuan prov., Qian Qi , 55 km N Baoxing, 2150-2300 m, 20.vi.2003, S. Murzin lgt.’ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head honey yellow with indistinct darker spot between eyes, antennomeres 1 and 2 honey yellow, antennomeres 3-11 sepia. Prothorax honey yellow, pronotum with narrow median longitudinal sepia stripe, not reaching both anterior and posterior margin of pronotum. Meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sepia, legs honey yellow with sepia tarsi. Scutellum sienna, elytra honey yellow.

Male. Eyes of medium size, protruding, head across eyes slightly wider than pronotum, temples almost straight and convergent posteriorly. Antennae moderately exceeding two thirds of elytral length, antennomeres 3-10 each with indistinct, small, 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 nearly straight, anterior corners round- ed, lateral margins bisinuate and diverging posteriorly, posterior corners almost sharp, posterior margin widely rounded. Surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent like that of head, matt and velvety. Elytra parallel-sided, elytral nervation not developed, surface of elytra finely and very shallowly rugulose-lacunose, finely yellow pubescent, semilustrous. Aedeagus as in Figs. 24 and 25 . Female unknown.

Length J: 6.2 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Mimopodabrus reductus sp. nov. is similar and related to M. satoi Wittmer, 1997 from Guangxi, from which it differs in shorter parameres, terminally curved laterophyses, less emarginate dorsal part of the aedeagus and the presence of a dark spot on the pronotum (cf. WITTMER 1997).

Etymology. Named in reference to its short and reduced parameres.

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.

Figs. 25-29. 25 – Mimopodabrus reductus sp. nov., aedeagus, ventral view. 26-28 – M. eduardi sp. nov. 26 – aedeagus, ventral view; 27 – ditto, lateral view; 28 – dorsal part of aedeagus. 29 – Themus (Haplothemus) hackeli Švihla, 2004, last abdominal segment of female. Scales a – Fig. 29; b – Figs. 25-28.