Fissocantharis safranekimima Y. Yang et X. Yang, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxia
name: Li, Limei
name: Yang, Xingke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Fissocantharis
Fissocantharis safranekimima

description: Fissocantharis safranekimima Y. Yang et X. Yang, sp. nov.
Figs. 1 A, 2B, 3D‒F
Type material. Holotype male (IZAS): CHINA, Shaanxi, Huoditang, 30.V.1985, leg. L. Liu. Paratype: 1 male (IZAS): CHINA, Shaanxi, Ningshan, Huoditang, 8.VII.2008, leg. M. Bai. [Both transliterated from Chinese labels].
Distribution. China (Shaanxi).
Description. Male (Fig. 1 A). Head, antennae and mouthparts orange, slightly darkened at terminal maxillary and labial palpomeres, dark brown at apices of mandibles, prothorax orange, scutellum and elytra black, legs orange, darkened at tarsi, meso- and metasterna and abdomen black, orange at posterior margins of abdominal ventrites and apical part of sternite IX. Body densely covered with light yellow recumbent pubescence, mixed with slightly long semierect pubescence on elytra and along anterior margin of clypeus.
Head subquadrate, temples evenly narrowed posteriorly, surface lustrous, finely and sparsely punctate; eyes slightly protruding, head breadth across eyes distinctly wider than anterior margin of pronotum; terminal maxillary palpomeres long-triangular, nearly widest at apical one-third, with inner margins arcuate and sharp at apical parts; antennae extending to basal one-third length of elytra, antennomeres II nearly twice as long as wide at apex, III‒VI nearly parallel-sided, subequal in length, VII (Fig. 2 B) distinctly widened apically, about twice as long as wide at apex, straight at apical margins, acute at outer apical angles, VIII shortened, distinctly longer than wide at apex, bald on surface of outer parts of dorsal sides, slightly protuberant at inner angles, IX lengthened and widened, about twice as long as maximal width, with outer margin triangularly protuberant and slightly curled dorsally in middle, inner margin slightly sinuate, dorsal sides excavated and bald on the whole surface, X‒XI parallel-sided, XI about one-third longer than X and pointed at apex.
Pronotum nearly as long as wide, anterior margin rounded, anterior angles rounded, lateral margins slightly sinuate and diverging posteriorly, posterior angles nearly rectangular, posterior margin arcuate and slightly bordered, disc distinctly convex on posterolateral parts, surface lustrous, punctate like that on head.
Elytra about 4.4 times longer than pronotum, 3.2 times longer than humeral width, lateral margins nearly parallel, disc surface semilustrous, rugulose-lacunose and finely punctate.
Legs with all tarsal claws bifid, upper claws nearly as long as lower claws.
Aedeagus (Figs. 3 D‒F): ventral process of each paramere evenly narrowed apically and slightly hooked at apex in ventral view; conjoint dorsal plate of parameres about one-third length of ventral processes, parallel-sided at basal one-third part then strongly obliquely narrowed apically, slightly rounded at apical margin.
Female unknown.
Body length: 7.0‒8.0 mm; width: 1.3‒1.5 mm.
Diagnosis. This species is similar to F. safraneki (Švihla, 2004), but can be differentiated by the shapes of antennomeres VII‒IX in male (Fig. 2 B), VII about twice as long as wide at apex, VIII not widened apically, distinctly longer than wide, IX about twice as long as maximal width, while in the latter species (Fig. 2 C), VII about 1.2 times as long wide at apex, VIII widened apically, slightly longer than wide at apex, IX slightly longer than maximal width.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin mimus (imitate), referring its similarity to F. safraneki (Švihla, 2004).
description: Published as part of Yang, Yuxia, Li, Limei & Yang, Xingke, 2015, Description of four new species related to Fissocantharis novemexcavatus (Wittmer, 1951) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from China, pp. 362-372 in Zootaxa 4058 (3) on pages 364-367, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/245336