Lycocerus putzi Švihla, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Lycocerus
Lycocerus putzi

description: Lycocerus putzi sp. nov.
Figs. 12, 60–63.
Type locality. China, Sichuan province, Quingcheng Shan mts., 8 km west of Taiping, 65 km north-west of Chengdu, 30.53°N 103.33°E, 800–1000 m a.s.l.
Type material. Holotype (NHMB), male, “ China, Sichuan province, Quingcheng Shan Mts., 8 km west of Taiping, 65 km north-west of Chengdu, 800–1000 m, 103.33E 30.53N, 18.V. / 3.–4.VI.1997, leg. A. Pütz [white label, printed]”. Paratype (NHMB), same label data, 1 female.
Description. Coloration (Fig. 12). Head honey yellow, antennae excluding first two honey yellow antennomeres (with darker tip in female) sepia. Prothorax honey yellow, legs honey yellow with sepia tarsi (bases of tarsomeres and claws paler), meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sepia. Scutellum honey yellow, elytra honey yellow in basal half, sepia with very narrow honey yellow lateral margins of each elytron and long triangular area along suture not reaching apex of elytra.
Male. Eyes comparatively small but strongly protruding, head across eyes wider than pronotum by ca one third, behind eyes moderately narrowing posteriorly, lateral sides slightly convex. Antennae probably extend just beyond elytral midlength (antennomere 11 missing), filiform, antennomeres 5–10 with small, oval, paler impression. Surface of head very finely punctate, with fine, sparse, yellow decumbent pubescence, lustrous. Pronotum only slightly longer than wide, anterior margin convex, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins only very slightly diverging posteriorly, moderately convex, posterior corners obtuse, posterior margin slightly convex. Surface of pronotum very finely punctate, with long, fine, sparse, yellow, semirecumbent pubescence, lustrous. Both claws of pro- and mesotarsi with basal projection, shorter in inner claws of mesotarsi, claws of metatarsi simple. Elytra parallel-sided, elytral venation very slight, visible only in basal half of elytra. Surface of elytra very finely punctulatereticulate basally, rugulose-lacunose apically, with fine, yellow decumbent pubescence, matt. Aedeagus as in Figs. 61–63.
Female. Eyes somewhat smaller and less protruding than in male, antennae shorter, extending only slightly beyond elytral midlength, pronotum as long as wide, both projections of claws of mesotarsi of same length. Last abdominal sternite as in Fig. 60.
Length (both sexes). 11.6–11.8 mm.
Differential diagnosis. Lycocerus putzi sp. nov. resembles Lycocerus jelineki (Švihla, 2004) (Shaanxi, Hubei) in body form and coloration, but differs in much shorter parameres and parallel-sided, narrower, divided portions of the dorsal part of the aedeagus (cf. Švihla 2004).
Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to its collector, Andreas Pütz (Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany).
Distribution. China: Sichuan province.
description: Published as part of Švihla, Vladimír, 2011, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2895 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277686