Eniclases tikapurensis, Bocek, Matej & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016

Bocek, Matej & Bocak, Ladislav, 2016, Species limits in polymorphic mimetic Eniclases net-winged beetles from New Guinean mountains (Coleoptera, Lycidae), ZooKeys 593, pp. 15-35 : 21-23

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Lycidae

Eniclases tikapurensis sp. n. Figs 9, 41, 45

Material examined.

Holotype. Male (BM0039), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Yiwika, N of Wamena, 2000 m, Nov.-Dec. 1991 (LMBC). Paratypes. 3 males, 2 females (BM0040-44), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Tikapura village, 2200 m, Nov.-Dec. 1991 (LMBC).

Diagnosis.

Eniclases tikapurensis resembles in general appearance Eniclases papuensis Bocak & Bocakova, 1991 from the Panai Lake area approximately 250 km west of Yiwika. Both species are characteristic in pale hue of the yellow upper part (Fig. 9) but differ in the relative size of eyes when Eniclases tikapurensis has much larger eyes (Table 1).

Description.

Male. Body length 9.5-11.1 mm, slender (Table 1). Head, antennae, thorax, legs except trochanters and bases of femora bark brown to black, pronotum and elytra except posterior edge pale yellow (Fig. 9). Head with large, hemispherically prominent eyes, their diameter 1.11-1.40 times minimum interocular distance. Antennae serrate, antennomere 3 triangular, with pointed apical process, antennomere 4 parallel-sided in most of its length, its process shorter, shape of other antennomeres similar (Fig. 41). Pronotum transverse, lateral margins with weak bulge in basal third and prominent posterior angles, elytra with weak but well developed, straight secondary costae and regular, mostly quadrate, small elytral cells.

Distribution.

New Guinea, Upper Baliem Valley.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the type locality, the village Tikapura, north of Tagime.

Remark.

The genetically distant population from Bokondini is a sister to Eniclases tikapurensis , but does not differ in any morphological character. As their delimitation would be based only on mtDNA sequence and further information on nuclear markers and geographical distribution is needed for these two putative cryptic species, we postpone the formal description of the population from Bokondini. The sequenced specimens representing the Bokondini population are designated as Eniclases sp. A. in Fig. 1.