Wakarumbia pendolensis, Dvorak & Bocak, 2009

Dvorak, M. & Bocak, L., 2009, Ten new species of Wakarumbia Bocak, 1999 from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with a key to males of the genus, Zootaxa 2282 (1), pp. 51-61 : 58-59

Wakarumbia pendolensis sp. nov.

(Figs 17–18)

Type material. Holotype. Male, C. Sulawesi, 38 km SE of Pendolo vill., 1200 m, 120.46.55.E 2.14.03S, 10.– 11. July 2001, Bolm lgt . Paratypes. 4 males, 2 females, ditto ( LMBC) .

Differential diagnosis. W. pendolensis sp. nov. belongs to a group of species with a yellow band in elytra and slightly smaller eyes than their frontal distance. Other species from this assemblage differ in the shape of male genitalia. Both, W. fasciata Bocak, 2001 and W. mamasensis Bocak, 2001 have a long, slender basal part of the phallus. W. pendolensis has a robust base of the phallus and the phallus is open in most of its length (Figs 17–18).

Description. Body small to medium sized, dark brown to black, only trochanters, bases of femora and partly mouthparts testaceous, elytra with bright yellow patch in humeral third of elytral length. Head small, partly hidden by pronotum. Eyes small, hemispherically prominent, their interocular distance 1.33 times eye diameter. Antennae compressed, antennomere 3 2.1 times longer than maximum width, antennomeres 3–11 gradually slenderer to apex. Pronotum flat, 1.26 times wider than long, with well developed carinae, pronotum shining, covered with sparse long pubescence. Elytra parallel-sided, 2.93 times longer than width at humeri, reticulate cells small irregular. Phallus symmetrical, robust basally, slightly slenderer in middle part (Figs 17– 18).

Measurements. BL 4.97 mm, HW 1.40 mm, PL 0.68 mm, PW 0.86 mm, EL 4.10 mm, Ediam 0.30 mm, Edist 0.40 mm.

Distribution. Sulawesi, the vicinity of the Pendolo village.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality.

Remark. The extent of the yellow patch in elytra is very variable and we found specimens with almost isolated patches in each elytron as well as some specimens with large transverse band occupying up to one fifth of the elytral length. The small-bodied specimens have often a reduced size of the bright patches.