Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi Kolibáč, 1998

Chai, Zichao, Kolibáč, Jiří, Liu, Haoyu, Yu, Yali & Zheng, Jihuan, 2025, A newly-recorded genus, Lasiocallimerus Corporaal, 1939 (Coleoptera, Cleridae) from China, with description of a new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 169936-e 169936 : e169936-

Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi Kolibáč, 1998

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Pacholatko & Dembicky; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 268035F0-4F4A-5003-A1E1-D6E93ECBB41A; Taxon: scientificName: Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi ; Location: country: Thai; locality: Soppong Pai ; verbatimElevation: 1800; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event: eventDate: 15-8/ 15-9-1934; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: Coll. MMJK; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Mangyi Nong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 9EDDAABE-5889-5C09-8F90-FA82E8EAC9C9; Taxon: scientificName: Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi ; Location: country: China; locality: Yunnan Province Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture ; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event: eventDate: 15/ 30-IV-2024; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: IZGAS; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hui Xiao; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: FCA32F19-1C37-5094-B69A-E92B6AB081C0; Taxon: scientificName: Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi ; Location: country: China; locality: Guangxi Province, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Jinzhong Road ; verbatimElevation: 1100; georeferenceProtocol: label; Event: eventDate: 12-V-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: IZAS; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Diagnosis

It can be differentiated from other three species by head with white setae and elytra with a single yellow transverse band (Fig. 2 , Fig. 3 ).

Distribution

China ( Yunnan and Guangxi, new record), Thailand, India ( Assam) and Malaysia ( Sabah).

Notes

The specimens from Yunnan and Guangxi were identified as L. dembatkoi , based on the external morphology, which is newly recorded from China. It has been previously recorded from Southeast Asia ( Thailand, India, Malaysia). The colour of the legs in this species is variable. A specimen from Guangxi has legs that are entirely black (Fig. 3 a) and the specimen from Yunnan has legs that are orange-yellow with the front and middle femora and the distal part of the tibia black (Fig. 3 b).

Figures

Figure 2. Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi holotype. a head in frontal view; b elytra; c habitus in dorsal view.

Figure 3. Lasiocallimerus dembatkoi from China, habitus in dorsal view. a Yunnan; b Guangxi). Scale bars = 1 mm.