Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis Wiesner and Dheurle 2018, new species
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Dheurle, Charles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cylindera
Cylindera sierramadrensis

description: 3. Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis Wiesner and Dheurle, new species
(Fig. 17)
Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, one paratype female in JWGC, two paratype males and two paratype females in CDFC.
Type status. Holotype male, type labels: “ PHILIPPINES, Eastern Luzon, Aurora, Dingalan, Coll. DHEURLE; Sierra Madre, February 2018, LUMAWIG leg.; HOLOTYPE, Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner &, C. Dheurle, 2018 [printed, red]”.
Paratypes: 1 female in CDFC with same labels, and “ PARATYPE, Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner &, C. Dheurle, 2018 [printed, red]”. 1 male in CDFC: “ PHILIPPINES, E. Luzon _ Aurora, Sierra Madre, DHEURLE coll. [hand written]; Dingalan, II. 2018, I. Lumawig leg. [hand written]; PARATYPE, Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner &, C. Dheurle, 2018 [printed, red]”. 1 female in JWCG with same labels. 1 male and 1 female in CDFC: “PHILIP- PINES, North Luzon, Nueva Ecija, Coll. DHEURLE; Gabaldon, Sierra Madre, March 2018, Lumawig leg.; PARATYPE, Cylindera (Cylinderina) sierramadrensis n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner &, C. Dheurle, 2018 [printed, red]”.
Distribution. Philippines, Luzon (Prov. Aurora: Dingalan, Prov. Nueva Ecija: Gabaldon).
Etymology. The new species is named after the region where it was collected.
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the dark femora, the black epipleura, the different colored mandibles of males and females, and the curved metallic elytral margin.
Description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 5.8–6.5 mm (mean = 6.0 mm, n = 6). Head: Dark coppery or bluish green above; surface smooth, glabrous, with each two setigerous punctures next to the eyes in front and at the center; strong longitudinal striae on vertex and orbital plates, the striae becoming slightly concentric on vertex, and finer, irregular, transversely waved, behind on neck; genae roughly longitudinally striated. Eyes pale yellow. Ratio between width of head and elytra = 1.2 in medium. Labrum (male Fig. 21, female Fig. 22) distinctly wider than long, ratio between width and length = 2.2 in medium; with six to seven marginal setae, unidentate in the middle of front edge; color in various extension dark, with blue green hue, tooth brownish in some specimens. Mandibles yellowish, darkened on apical and inner teeth in males and completely darkened except the base in females. Labial and maxillary palpi testaceous, the last joint metallic dark greenish; basal segment of labial palpi with long erected white setae. Antennae slender, long, reaching half of the elytral length in the males, a little shorter in the females; antennomeres one to four dark, with metallic luster; scape with with one long apical seta, the other three antennomeres almost glabrous; antennomeres five to eleven dark blackish brown, dull, finely and evenly pubescent. Thorax: Pronotum as wide as long (ratio between width and length = 1.0 in medium), sides somewhat rounded between the transversal constrictions; glabrous, with some white setae laterally before the anterior constriction; transversely waved before and behind the transversal constrictions and at the lateral margin, with irregular wrinkles on disc; color either bluish green all over or blackish blue between the constrictions with coppery hue at basal and apical margin. Sternae and episternae metallic bluish black, proepisternum with several white setae marginally; mesepisternum glabrous, the remaining setose; mesepisternum of females with a longitudinal furrow in the upper half. Elytra: (Fig. 19-20) parallel-sided, somewhat rounded in the middle; color dull brown on the disk, apical half of elytra coppery, small bluish or coppery near the suture, lateral margin glossy greenish blue and waved; elytral testaceous maculation consists of a small subhumeral dot, a slender middle band, which extends the half of an elytra, and a medium sized subapical dot. Surface with a fine microsculpture, marginally smooth, and a lot of larger, evenly spaced punctures laterally, shoulders glossy; preapical impression strong, apical microserration extremely fine; apical border distinctly rounded and restricted towards middle suture, with a tiny sutural spine. Epipleurae black. Ventral aspect: Venter setose apically, black, with metallic luster in some specimens; coxae with white setae; trochanters testaceous; coxae, femora, tibiae and tarsi dark, with little metallic reflections; legs covered with some with setae, meso- tibiae more densely setose. Aedeagus: (Fig. 18) on left lateral view fusiform, straight, tapering, slightly enlarged in the middle, with a straight, blunt, slightly knobbed and upturned apex (total length 2.5 mm).
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen & Dheurle, Charles, 2018, Remarks on the subgenus Cylinderina Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae: Cylindera) from the Philippines with description of a new species 144. Contribution towards the knowledge of the Cicindelidae, pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 670 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3713472