Cylindera (Cylinderina) genieri Cassola and Werner, 2003

Wiesner, Jürgen & Dheurle, Charles, 2018, Remarks on the subgenus Cylinderina Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae: Cylindera) from the Philippines with description of a new species 144. Contribution towards the knowledge of the Cicindelidae, Insecta Mundi 670, pp. 1-16 : 8-9

7. Cylindera (Cylinderina) genieri Cassola and Werner

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Cylindera (Cylinderina) genieri Cassola and Werner 2003: 49 , Fig. 1–2 .

Cylindera (Cylinderina) genieri . Cabras et al. 2016: 196.

Type depository. Holotype male in CMNC, paratypes in JWCG, MCZC, SDEI, and ZSMC.

Type status. Paratype male in SDEI, type labels: “ PHILIPPINES, Ilocos , Norte : Balaoi , Pagudpud, (Luzon) 23-25.V.1987, C. K. Starr; PARATYPUS, Cylindera ( Cylinderina ], genieri n. sp., F. Cassola & K. Werner, dederunt, 2002 [printed, red]” . Paratype female in JWGC with same labels .

Other material examined. 1 male and 1 female in CDFC: “ PHILIPPINES, N. Luzon, Ilocos , Pagudpud , VII. 2016, LUMAWIG leg.” .

Distribution. Philippines, Luzon (Prov. Ilocos Norte: Pagudpud, Balaoi).

Diagnosis. Distinguished by reddish femora and the globose pronotum.

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 5.6–6.6 mm (mean = 6.3 mm, n = 4). Head: Glossy bluish-violet above, metallic green to blue-green on clypeus, frons, orbital plates, and genae; surface smooth, glabrous, each one with a setigerous puncture next to the eyes at the center; strong longitudinal striae on vertex and eyes, the striae becoming slightly concentric on vertex, and finer, irregular, transversely waved, behind on neck; genae roughly longitudinally striated. Eyes pale yellow. Ratio between width of head and elytra = 1.0 in medium. Labrum (male Fig. 46, 47 , female Fig. 48 ) distinctly wider than long, ratio between width and length = 2.0 in medium, with six to seven marginal setae, unidentate in the middle of front edge; color glossy metallic blue-violet, slightly darkened in front, sometimes briefly lightened on the middle tooth. Mandibles yellowish, brownish on apical and inner teeth. Labial and maxillary palpi testaceous, the last joint metallic dark; basal segment of labial palpi with long erected white setae. Antennae slender, long, reaching over the half of the elytral length in the male, slightly shorter in the female; scape with one long apical seta; antennomeres one to four rufous to brownish with metallic luster; antennomeres five to eleven dark blackish brown, dull, finely and evenly pubescent. Thorax: Pronotum slightly wider than long (ratio between width and length = 1.1 in medium), rounded at sides, slightly globose, glabrous, smooth with some irregular wrinkles on disc; color mostly glossy blue-violet, metallic bluish-green in the transversal constrictions and on front and hind collars. Sternae and episternae dark violaceus, proepisternum and mesepisternum glabrous, metepisternum and metasternum with some white setae apically; mesepisternum of females with a longitudinal furrow on the upper half. Elytra: ( Fig. 44–45 ) parallel-sided; color dull purple-brown on front and middle disc, glossy metallic blue-violet on base, shoulders, the lateral sides, and the full apical third of elytra. Surface with a fine microsculpture, and some larger, evenly spaced, greenish or bluish punctures in the front third of elytra; preapical impression strong, apical microserration extremely fine; apical border distinctly rounded and restricted towards middle suture, sutural spine very tiny or nearly absent. Epipleura rufous. Ventral aspect: Venter mostly glabrous with few white setae, brownish black; coxae with white setae, testaceous; trochanters glabrous and testaceous; femora testaceous; tibiae and tarsi dark brownish with a metallic hue; legs covered with some white setae, mesotibiae more densely setose. Aedeagus: ( Fig. 43 ) on left lateral view fusiform, stout and straight, tapering, enlarged in the middle, with a straight, slightly upturned apex (total length 2.1 mm).

Figures

Figure 1. Body length of Cylindera (Cylinderina) species in mm (without labrum).

Figure 2. Distribution map of Cylindera (Cylinderina) species.

Figures 42–54. Cylindera (Cylinderina). All scales = 1 mm. 42–48. C. (C.) genieri Cassola and Werner, 2003. 42) Habitus, paratype male from Balaoi (SDEI). 43) Left lateral view of aedeagus, male from Pagudpud (CDFC). 44–45. Left elytron. 44) Paratype male from Balaoi (SDEI). 45) Paratype female from Balaoi (JWGC). 46–48. Labrum. 46) Paratype male from Balaoi (SDEI). 47) Male from Pagudpud (CDFC). 48) Paratype female from Balaoi (JWGC). 49–54. C. (C.) vandenberghei Dheurle, 2016. 49) Habitus, paratype female from Santa Ana (JWGC). 50) Left lateral view of aedeagus, paratype from Santa Ana (CDFC). 51–52. Left elytron. 51) Paratype male from Santa Ana (CDFC). 52) Paratype female from Santa Ana (JWGC). 53–54. Labrum. 53) Paratype male from Santa Ana (CDFC). 54) Paratype female from Santa Ana (JWGC)