Sulabanus niger, Dvorak, Milan & Bocak, Ladislav, 2007

Dvorak, Milan & Bocak, Ladislav, 2007, Sulabanus gen. nov., a new genus of Lycidae (Coleoptera) from Sulawesi, Zootaxa 1611, pp. 1-24 : 16-17

Sulabanus niger sp. nov.

(Figs. 41–42)

Type material. Holotype. Male. S. Sulawesi, 7 km S of Malino, Gn. Lompobatang, 119.43.47E, 5.17.40 S, 29 July 1999, 950 m, Bolm lgt. 1 paratype. Male, locality data as the holotype ( LMBC).

Differential diagnosis. Sulabanus niger is the only completely black coloured species in the S. major group. It differs from remaining species in this groups also by having very small eyes similar only to those of S. major and by the shape of the phallus which is widened in the middle of its length (Figs. 41–42).

Description. Body dark brown to black. Head partly hidden by pronotum. Frontal interocular distance 1.73 times eye diameter. Pronotum flat, 1.25 times wider that long. Elytra parallel–sided, 3.08 times longer than width at humeri. Male genitalia with deeply emarginate apex of phallus and characteristic shape of the apical part (Figs. 41–42).

Measurements. BL 8.5 mm, HW 2.3 mm, PL 1.2 mm, PW 1.5 mm, Ediam 0.38 mm, Edist 0.66 mm, EL 7.1 mm.

Distribution. Sulawesi, known only from the type locality in the Lompobatang range.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the concolorous dark body.