Micropodabrus kantnerorum, Švihla, 2005

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 76-78

Micropodabrus kantnerorum sp. nov.

( Figs. 9-11 , 13 )

Type locality. Laos, Hua Phan Province, Ban Saluei, Mt. Phu Phan, 20°13′N 103°59′E.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, ‘ Laos: Hua Phan prov., Ban Saluei, Mt. Phu Phan , 20°13′N 103°59′E, 6.-17.v.2004, F. & L. Kantner lgt.’ ( NMPC) . PARATYPE: same locality data, P. Kresl lgt., 1 ♀ ( NMPC).

Description. Coloration. Head black, honey yellow before eyes in male, only mouthparts yellow in female, antennomeres 1-7 honey yellow, gradually darkening to dark olivaceous, antennomeres 8-11 black in male, in female only first two antennomeres honey yellow, 3-11 gradually darkening from olivaceous grey to black. Prothorax egg-yolk yellow, pronotum with large, not sharply delimited, central, trapezoid, sepia to black spot, meso- and metasternum black, abdomen black, last visible segment egg-yolk yellow. Femora egg-yolk yellow, tibiae and tarsi sooty. Scutellum black, elytra glaucous bluish green.

Male. Eyes of moderate size, protruding, head across eyes almost 1.25 times as wide as pronotum, temples arcuate and convergent posteriorly.Antennae ( Fig. 13 ) moderately exceeding elytral midlength, antennomeres 3-7 with lateral, longitudinal, not sharply delimited, more finely punctate areas. Surface of head very finely and densely puncticulate, sparsely and finely yellow pubescent, matt. Pronotum distinctly longer than wide, its anterior margin rounded, anterior corners obtusely rounded, lateral margins sinuate and diverging posteriorly, posterior corners sharp, posterior margin sinuate laterally and rounded in its middle. Surface of pronotum very finely rugulose-lacunose, sparsely yellow pubescent, lustrous. Elytra parallel-sided, elytral nervation slightly indicated, surface of elytra finely rugulose-lacunose, finely yellow pubescent, matt. Aedeagus as in Figs. 9-11 .

Female. Antennae shorter than in male, almost reaching elytral midlength, filiform. Head across eyes as wide as pronotum, the latter as long as wide. Elytra comparatively wider, very slightly dilated posteriorly.

Length J ♀: 9.0- 9.8 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Micropodabrus kantnerorum sp. nov. belongs to the large group of species characterized by the dorsal part of the aedeagus not or feebly emarginate, its inner part with a median longitudinal keel and the phallus with a lobe protruding dorsad.Aedeagi of all species are rather uniform and the species are more easily recognized by the shape of the antennomeres. In the key by WITTMER (1988), M. kantnerorum sp. nov. falls in the vicinity of three species from Yunnan: M. pseudolongiceps Wittmer, 1988 , M. pseudonotatithorax Wittmer, 1988 and M. chaoi Wittmer, 1988 . It differs from the first one in the more developed and/or sharper corners of antennomeres and from the last two ones in more developed and sharper corners of antennomeres 4-6 (cf. WITTMER 1988).

Etymology. Dedicated to the collectors of the holotype, Liběna Kantnerová and František Kantner (České Budějovice, Czech Republic).

Distribution. Northern Laos.

Figures

Figs. 6-11. 6-8 – Micropodabrus kopetzi sp. nov. 6 – aedeagus, ventral view; 7 – ditto, lateral view; 8 – dorsal part of aedeagus. 9-11 – M. kantnerorum sp. nov. 9 – aedeagus, ventral view; 10 – ditto, lateral view; 11 – dorsal part of aedeagus.

Figs. 1-5. 1-3 – Rhagonycha bimucronata sp. nov. 1 – aedeagus, ventral view; 2 – dorsal part of aedeagus; 3 – aedeagus, lateral view. 4 – Micropodabrus semifumatoides sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus. 5 – M. fissiformis sp. nov., dorsal part of aedeagus.