Sulabanus utarensis, 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 : 19-21

Sulabanus utarensis sp. nov.

(Figs. 61–62)

Type material. Holotype. Male. Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Danau Mooat, 1200 m, nr. Kotamobagu, 21 June 1985. R. Ent. Soc. Lond., Project Wallace, B. M. 1985–10 ( BMNH).

Differential diagnosis. Sulabanus utarensis is more robust in general appearance and it is easily recognizable among Sulabanus species by its reddish brown pronotum. Both species of this species group share similar size of eyes, but they differ in the shape of phallus where the base is almost parallel–sided in S. utarensis (Figs. 59–62).

FIGURES 50–67. 50–62. Male genitalia. 50 S. ocularis ; 51–52 S. similis ; 53–54 S. katarinae ; 55–56 S. gracilis ; 57–58 S. ambangensis ; 59–60 S. tenggahensis ; 61–62 S. utarensis ; 63–65. Female genitalia. 63 Sulabanus sp.; 64 Sulabanus sp.; 65 Sulabanus nigricolor (Pic) . 66–67 Terminal abdominal segments of male, Sulabanus ulci 66 tergite, 67 ventrite. Scale 0.5 mm (Figs. 50–66), 0.1 mm (Fig 67).

Description. Body rather robust, dark brown to black, only pronotum reddish brown. Head partly hidden by pronotum. Frontal interocular distance 1.35 times eye diameter. Pronotum flat, 1.14 times wider that long. Elytra parallel–sided, 2.8 times longer than width at humeri. Phallus long, slender, parallel–sided in the basal part (Figs. 61–62).

Measurements. BL 7.55 mm, HW 2.20 mm, PL 1.18 mm, PW 1.34 mm, Ediam 0.47 mm, Edist 0.64 mm, EL 6.15 mm.

Distribution. Sulawesi, known only from the type locality in Northern Sulawesi.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Indonesian name of the province Sulawesi Utara, where the species occurs.