Blaps fouquei, Chigray, Ivan & Ivanov, Alexander, 2020

Chigray, Ivan & Ivanov, Alexander, 2020, A Review Of The Genus Blaps (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Of Central And South Kazakhstan With Description Of Two New Species, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (2), pp. 111-162 : 118-123

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.66.2.111.2020
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF0DA73C-3AEF-40F3-A1A1-9986A889FDAA
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/896187BF-F769-B61B-FDE5-C166FBB9FCCE
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Blaps fouquei
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Blaps fouquei sp. n.

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Type material ( ZIN). Holotype: m, ‘ South Kazakhstan / Akmechet-Aulie Cave / 100 km NW Bourny / 22.vi.1964 / leg. V. Kusov // coll. N. Skopin’. Paratypes: 1f, ‘ South Kazakhstan / Karatau Ridge / 30 km W Sholakkorgan / h = 915 m / 43°46’27.11”N, 68°48’50.20”E / 7. vi.2015 / leg. A. Shapovalov’; 1 m: ‘ South Kazakhstan / Karatau Ridge / 15 km S Kozmoldak village / 43°51’36.0’’N, 068°32’52.5’’E / h = 931 m / 16.iv.2014 / leg. A. V. Ivanov’ GoogleMaps .

Description. Male. Body black, mat, slender. Anterior margin of epistoma weakly arcuately emarginate, straight in middle. Lateral margins of epistoma weakly rounded. Lateral margins of genae straight in anterior half, rounded at base. Lateral margins of head with distinct emargination between epistoma and genae. Head widest at level of posterior margin of eyes. Head 1.45 times as wide as interocular distance. Antennomeres 10–11 reaching base of elytra. Ratio of length/width of antennomeres 2–11 as 7(9), 43(10), 19(10), 17(10), 17(11), 18(14), 10(9), 10(9), 10(9), 12(10). Mentum transversely oval, convex in middle, its base straight. Punctation of head fine, sparse (puncture diameters on frons 5 times as wide as distance between punctures, puncture diameters on genae 2 times as wide as distance between punctures).

Pronotum weakly transverse (1.15 times as wide as long), widest at middle, 1.72 times as wide as head. Ratio of pronotal width near anterior angles to widest part and width at base 5.3: 7.7: 7.2. Anterior margin of pronotum widely emarginate, lateral margins widely rounded, base straight. Lateral margins of pronotum weakly emarginate near base. Disc of pronotum weakly convex, lateral sides narrow flattened. Anterior angles obtuse, widely rounded, posterior angles right, narrowly rounded. Pronotum completely beaded, except for middle of apex and base. Pronotal punctation moderately coarse, dense (distance between punctures in middle subequal to one puncture diameter), punctation of lateral sides and near base sparser (puncture diameters 2 times as wide as distance between punctures). Prothoracic hypomera with small wrinkles and covered with small granules. Lateral margins of hypomera not excavate.

Elytra weakly convex, elongate (1.93 times as long as wide together), flattened along suture, widest at middle, 3.42 times as long and 2.52 times as wide as pronotum, 2.52 times as wide as head. Caudal extension of elytra (mucro) distinct, 2.2 mm long; elytra 10 times as long as mucro. Elytral surface with fine microwrinkles and rasp-like punctation, obliterated from base to middle, and almost completely disappearing closer to elytral apex. Epipleura with fine wrinkles and sparse fine rasp-like punctures. Hair tuft between abdominal ventrites 1 and 2 present. Abdominal ventrite 1 without tubercle. Abdominal ventrites 1–3 with sparse rasp-like punctation and sparse granules, covered with short recumbent hairs. Abdominal ventrites 4–5 with moderately dense punctation, punctation at lateral sides of ventrite 4 forming wrinkles, ventrite 5 completely beaded, except for base and with unclear bead apically.

Anterior margin of male inner sternite VIII emarginate; accessory gland of sternite VIII moderately long and thin. Rods of spiculum gastrale not merged at apex, forming long common stem. Aedeagus length 4.5 mm, width 0.9 mm. Aedeagus weakly C-curved. Lateral margins of parameres weakly rounded, widely emarginate in apical third, lateral sides of parameres with longitudinal impression in basal two-thirds, apex rounded. Parameres length 1.3 mm, width 0.9 mm.

Legs long, slender. Ratio of lengths of femora, tibiae and tarsi of fore, middle and hind legs 8.4: 7.3: 5.3, 9.4: 7.9: 6.1, 11.6: 10.5: 7.8. All tarsomeres with one pair of setal brushes. apical piece, dorsal view; E = the same, ventral view; F = the same, lateral view. Scale bars:

100 µm for A–C, 30 µm for D, 200 µm for E–F

Body length 29–30 mm, width 11–11.1 mm.

Female. Shape of body and punctation similar to those of male. Head 1.41 times as wide as interocular distance. Antennomere 11 reaching base of pronotum. Ratio of pronotal width near anterior angles, in widest part and at base 4.9: 7.0: 6.9. Elytra elongate (1.76 times as long as wide together), 3.65 times as long and 1.55 times as wide as pronotum, 2.4 times as wide as head. Mucro short (1 mm).

Ovipositor moderately long. Apical lobes straight in basal two-thirds, weakly arcuately emarginate at apical third. Apex of lobes acute. Ventral side of lobes with excavation near middle. Middle of ventral side of lobes with small deep longitudinal wrinkles. Ante- ca, r = reservoirs, g = accessory gland of spermatheca). Scale bars = 1 mm

rior margin of proctiger widely emarginate. Basal duct of spermatheca between vagina and reservoirs long, gland of spermatheca short. Reservoirs of spermatheca separated from each other; 1st reservoir sharply expanding from middle, wide in apical half; 2nd reservoir almost spherical at apex, 1st reservoir slightly larger than 2nd. Base of spermathecal gland very thin. Stem of spiculum ventrale moderately long and wide.

Body length 27.3 mm, width 11.1 mm.

Etymology. The species epithet of this new species is dedicated to the late Czech entomologist, Ren é Fouque.

Differential diagnosis. The body shape of the new species is similar to that in Blaps seriata Fischer von Waldheim, 1820 ( Fig. 12 View Fig ), and differs from the latter in the following character states: antennomeres 10–11 of Blaps fouquei sp. n. reaching first quarter of elytra, those of B. seriata reaching only basal quarter of the pronotum; elytra of Blaps fouquei sp. n. flattened along the suture, elytra of B. seriata weakly convex; lateral sides of parameres of Blaps fouquei sp. n. weakly rounded in the basal two-thirds, apical third widely emarginate, lateral sides of parameres of B. seriata weakly rounded; reservoirs of the spermatheca in Blaps fouquei sp. n. are separated from each other, reservoirs of the spermatheca and valve of the accessory gland in B. seriata are closely located.