Plateros bantaengensis Kazantsev, 2020

Kazantsev, S. V., 2020, New species of Plateros Bourgeois from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Russian Entomological Journal 29 (2), pp. 161-172 : 161-162

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.29.2.07

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FE87E4-FFBA-FFCD-4C47-F963FEA8FB75

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scientific name

Plateros bantaengensis Kazantsev
status

sp. nov.

Plateros bantaengensis Kazantsev , sp.n.

Figs 1 View Figs 1–3 , 15–16.

MATERIAL: Holotype, ♂, Indonesia, S Sulawesi, ca. 10 km NE Bantaeng , 5°26´S 119°55´E, 440 m, 06.I.2020, S. Kazantsev leg. ( ICM). GoogleMaps

DESCRIPTION. Male. Testaceous; head, metaventrite and tarsi light brown; antennomeres 3–10 dark brown (antennomere 11 missing in both antennae) ( Fig. 1 View Figs 1–3 ).

Vertex shining, with broad shallow round impression behind antennal prominence. Eyes relatively large, interocular distance ca. 1.4 times shorter than eye diameter. Labrum small, transverse, truncate anteriorly. Palps slender; ultimate palpomeres elongate, widest in the middle, obliquely truncate and flattened at apex. Antennal sockets separated by minute lamina. Antennae attaining to elytral two thirds, from antennomere 3 serrate; antennomere 3 ca. 4.3 times longer than antennomere 2 and 1.2 times shorter than antennomere 4; antennomeres 3–11 with long erect pubescence ( Fig. 1 View Figs 1–3 ).

Pronotum transverse, ca. 1.2 times as wide as long, moderately bisinuate basally and strongly semi-circularly produced anteriorly, with almost parallel, slightly concave sides, conspicuous acute posterior and blunt anterior angles. Scutellum subquadrate, parallel-sided, truncate and medially slightly emarginate at apex ( Fig. 1 View Figs 1–3 ).

Elytra long, ca. 3.6 times longer than wide at humeri, parallel-sided, with four equally developed primary costae; interstices with even rows of small roundish cells; pubescence short and decumbent ( Fig. 1 View Figs 1–3 ).

Legs slender ( Fig. 1 View Figs 1–3 ).

Median lobe of aedeagus relatively short, widened in distal two thirds, with paired toothed blades apically ( Figs 15–16).

Female. Unknown.

Length: 4.9 mm. Width (humerally): 1.1 mm.

ETYMOLOGY. The name of the new species is derived from´Bantaeng´, a locality in South Sulawesi where its type specimen was collected .

DIAGNOSIS. Plateros bantaengensis sp.n., resembling P. lalui Tvardik et Bocák, 2001 in appearance, may be easily separated from all Sulawesi Plateros by the unique structures of the aedeagus ( Figs 15–16).

REMARKS. Antennomere 11 is missing in the left antenna and antennomeres 10–11 are missing in the right antenna of the holotype.

ICM

Instituto de Ciencias del Mar

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lycidae

Genus

Plateros

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