Podosilis zhongdiana Kazantsev, 2019

Kazantsev, S. V., 2019, New species of Podosilis Wittmer, 1978 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from China and Indochina, Russian Entomological Journal 28 (2), pp. 158-164 : 163-164

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https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.28.2.07

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scientific name

Podosilis zhongdiana Kazantsev
status

sp. nov.

Podosilis zhongdiana Kazantsev , sp.n.

Figs 39–43 View Figs 35–43 .

MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂, China, NW Yunnan, env. Zhongdi- an, 3100–3400 m, 4–5.VII.2002, A. Gorodinsky leg. ( ICM); paratypes, ♂ and ♀, same label ( ICM).

Description. Male. Dark brown to black; pronotum, except at lateral margins of layteral hairy ‘caps’, and prosternum testaceous ( Fig. 39 View Figs 35–43 ).

Vertex flat, finely punctate, shining, with short hairs. Eyes small, interocular distance ca. 2.7 times greater than eye diameter. Clypeus small, transverse, rounded anteriorly. Palps slender, ultimate palpomeres elongate, considerably longer and wider than preceding palpomeres. Antennae filiform, attaining to elytral five sixths; antennomere 3 ca. 3 times longer than antennomere 2 and ca. 1.6 times longer than antennomere 4; antennomeres with short semi-erect pubescence ( Fig. 39 View Figs 35–43 ).

Pronotum transverse, ca. 1.5 times wider than long, basally almost straight, without tooth before posterior angle; anteriorly slightly convex; medially with conspicuous broad impression; anterior angles rounded; sides with small hairy ‘cap’, not surpassing one third of side’s length, and semicircular opening at posterior angle; posterior angle moderately produced, with indistinctly cleft at apex. Scutellum subquadrate, rounded at apex ( Fig. 39 View Figs 35–43 ).

Elytra ca. 2.5 times longer than wide at humeri, slightly widened posteriorly, with coarse dense punctuation, denser distally, and one longitudinal vein near suture. Pubescence short and sub-erect, not concealing the punctuation. Femoris and tibiae narrow, straight; ratio of hind leg tarsomeres — 1.3:1:0.8:0.6:1.

Spiculum gastrale very narrow, needle-shaped, parallel-sided. Aedeagus with sub-triangular, conspicuously incised medially ventral plate; dorsal plate broad, semicircular, denticulate; laterophyses approximate and parallel-sided, acute at apex, not denticulate ( Figs 41–43 View Figs 35–43 ).

Female. Similar to male, but pronotum without complex armature, eyes smaller and antennae somewhat shorter ( Fig. 40 View Figs 35–43 ).

Length: 5.8–6.0mm. Width (humerally): 1.6–1.8 mm.

DIAGNOSIS. Podosilis zhongdiana sp.n. somewhat resembles P. yunnana Wittmer, 1997 , distinguishable by the approximate and parallel-sided laterophyses, as well as by the sub-triangular ventral plate and semicircular dorsal plate of the aedeagus ( Figs 41–43 View Figs 35–43 ).

ETYMOLOGY. The new species is named after the type locality.

Acknowledgements. It is my pleasant duty to express gratitude to Dr. C. Holzschuh (Villach, Austria), Dr. B. Korotjaev (St.-Petersburg), Dr. S. Murzin (Moscow) and Dr. Yu. Zaitsev (Moscow) for the possibility to study the soldier-beetles collected during their trips to China and Indochina.

ICM

Instituto de Ciencias del Mar

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cantharidae

Genus

Podosilis

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