Lasiocallimerus wangi, Chai & Kolibáč & Liu & Yu & Zheng, 2025

Chai, Zichao, Kolibáč, Jiří, Liu, Haoyu, Yu, Yali & Zheng, Jihuan, 2025, A newly-recorded genus, Lasiocallimerus Corporaal, 1939 (Coleoptera, Cleridae) from China, with description of a new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 169936-e 169936 : e169936-

Lasiocallimerus wangi sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IOZ (E) 1125075 ; recordedBy: Shuyong WANG; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CB0D5D5F-605F-537E-B09E-DF548376FE41; Taxon: scientificName: Lasiocallimerus wangi ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; locality: Kongming Mountain, Xishuangbanna ; verbatimElevation: 2300 m; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event: eventDate: 25-XI-1959; Record Level: language: cn; institutionCode: IZAS; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Female (Fig. 5 ). Length 6.5 mm, width 2.35 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum, ventral side of body black; labrum, labium, labial palpi, maxillary palpi, femora, tibiae, tarsi and claws black-brown; elytra with an irregular orange yellow patch extending from the basal fourth to the apical fourth, with a V-shaped boundary along the suture, blurred posteriorly, the remainder black; body with dense black setae and white pubescence.

Head including eyes slightly wider than pronotum, punctured finely and evenly, with dense white setae and long black erect pubescence; apical margin of labrum emarginate at middle, maxillary terminal palpomere digitiform, labial terminal palpomere triangular; gular sutures parallel, post gular plate wide; antennae 10 - segmented, relatively short, terminal segment club; eyes large, very slightly emarginated near antennal insertions, finely granulate (Fig. 5 d).

Prothorax wider than long, widest at anterior margin; pronotum distinctly extended behind subapical depression, with dense white setae and long black erect hairs, punctured finely and evenly; sub-basal transverse depressions distinct; scutellum sub-circular, with short white hairs; front and middle coxal cavities open wide.

Elytra almost parallel, twice as long as wide, wider than pronotum, punctured finely and evenly, with short white pubescence (Fig. 5 e).

Legs with dense long white hairs; femora long and strong; tibiae with longitudinal carina on dorsal and ventral surface; tibial spur formula 2–2 – 2; tarsi compact, first tarsomeres of all pairs of legs minute; tarsal pulvillar formula 4–4 – 4, first indistinct, remaining distinct; claws with denticle.

Abdomen with six ventrites, anterior margins of ventrites I – IV parallel-side; abdomen completely covered by elytra; with short, brown sparse reclinate setae; ventrites I – V membranously connected; ventrite V flat; lamina of ovipositor bilobed apically (Fig. 6 a), tergite VIII and sternite VIII as shown in Fig. 6 (Fig. 6 b and c).

Male: Unknown.

Diagnosis

The new species differs from others in its complex yellow-orange elytral pattern (large patch) which is situated from the second and third quarter of each elytron (Fig. 5 e).

Etymology

The new species is named after Mr. Shuyong WANG, the collector of the new species.

Distribution

China ( Yunnan).

Notes

The leg colouration of L. dembatkoi and L. pacholickyi is variable, with legs entirely black or a combination of black and yellow. As only a single specimen of L. wangi sp. nov. is available, it remains unknown whether it also exhibits variable leg colouration.

Figures

Figure 5. Habitus of Lasiocallimerus wangi sp. nov., holotype, female. a habitus in dorsal view; b ditto, ventral view; c ditto, lateral view; d head in frontal view; e elytra. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Figure 6. Female genitalia of Lasiocallimerus wangi sp. nov. a Ovipositor; b Tergite VIII; c Sternite VIII. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.