Kumatoeides millei Gómez-Zurita 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gómez-Zurita, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Kumatoeides
Kumatoeides millei

description: Kumatoeides millei sp. nov.
(Figs 1c, 2g, 3b, 4f, 5c)
Holotype: Male, New Caledonia (S), -21.5962 165.7765, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, 650 m, night, 5.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, HOLOTYPE Kumatoeides millei sp. nov. J. Gómez-Zurita det. [red label] (MNHN). Paratype: Female, New Caledonia (S), -21.5962 165.7765, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, 650 m, night, 5.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, PARATYPE Kumatoeides millei sp. nov. J. Gómez- Zurita det. [red label] (MNHW).
Other material examined: (1) one male, New Caledonia (S), 21°37'S 165°49'E, Col d'Amieu (top of hill), 450 m, ad lucem, 9.ii.2004, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (2) one female, IBE-JGZ-3976, New Caledonia (S), -21.58383 165.79667, Col d'Amieu, 450 m (2.5 km to gate), 16.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (IBE-JGZ); (3) three males, five females, New Caledonia (S), -21.61176 165.75406, Farino, Parc des Grandes Fougères, 400 m, Camp de la Houe, 13.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (4) one female, New Caledonia (S), - 21.58536 165.79319, Col d'Amieu (3.0 km to gate), 500 m, at light, 14.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (5) one male, three females, New Caledonia (S), -21.61859 165.75570, Farino, Parc des Grandes Fougères, 400 m, Aire des Araucarias, 14.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (6) one male, three females, New Caledonia (S), -21.60948 165.77459, Farino, Parc des Grandes Fougères, 600–670 m, Pic Vincent track, 17.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (7) one male, three females, New Caledonia (S), -21.59929 165.77519, Farino, Parc des Grandes Fougères, 670 m, track & forest N of Pic Vincent, 17.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (8) one female, New Caledonia (S), -21.59929 165.77519, Farino, Parc des Grandes Fougères, 670 m, track & forest N of Pic Vincent, 17.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (IBE-JGZ); (9) one male, one female, New Caledonia (S), - 21.6006 165.7749, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, 680 m, at light, 5.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (10) one female, New Caledonia (S), -21.6152 165.7736, Parc des Grandes Fougères, Aire des Carpolepis, 550 m, 5.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (11) one male, New Caledonia (S), -21.6152 165.7736, Parc des Grandes Fougères, Aire d Carpolepis, 550 m, at light, 6.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (12) one male, New Caledonia (S), -21.5918 165.7745, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, 600–680 m, 6.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (IBE-JGZ); (13) one female, New Caledonia (S), -21.5918 165.7745, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, 600–680 m, 6.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (14) five females, New Caledonia (S), -21.6095 165.7747, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Aire des Carpolepis, 550–600 m, 7.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides millei m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW).
Head, including labrum and most of mandibles, pronotum, scutellum, elytra and ventral surfaces chestnut brown, with dim darker areas at sides of pronotum, broad margin of scutellum, basal third of elytra medially, apical half of elytra on disc, coxae and thoracic ventrites. Mouth appendages, antennae and legs brownish orange, with apical end of last antennomeres darkened (Fig. 1c). Length: 3.10 mm (range: 2.48–3.10 mm); width: 1.58 mm (range: 1.29–1.58 mm).
Head hypognathous at rest; frons microreticulate, with sparse punctures concentrated behind antennal calli and near eyes; supraocular furrows accentuated, marking external border of antennal calli posteriorly. Clypeus as long as wide at anterior border, microreticulate, with sparse dot-like punctures concentrated in posterior half; anterior border entire. Labrum transverse, feebly emarginate anteriorly, microreticulate, unpunctured. Eyes large, bulging, almost entire, feebly emarginate at inner border. Last maxillary palpomere spindle-shaped. Antennae long, slender, feebly clavate beyond seventh antennomere, reaching behind middle of elytra; scape subcylindrical, weakly bent posteriorly; pedicel 0.7x as long as scape, widest at middle; third antennomere slender, weakly clavate, nearly glabrous, slightly longer than pedicel; fourth antennomere 1.2x longer than third, with few sparse whitish semierect hairs; fifth and sixth antennomeres subequal, 1.5x longer than third, sparsely but more abundantly setose than fourth; antennomeres 7–11 slightly more dilated than basal antennomeres, granulose and hairier; seventh antennomere longest of interstitial antennomeres, 1.8x longer than third; antennomeres 8–10 subequal, slightly longer than fifth; last antennomere long, conical at apical third. Pronotum transverse (1.44x as wide as long along middle), markedly slopping toward anterior angles and weakly cordiform, widest in front of middle; anterior border nearly straight, very finely margined, with margin incrassate near and at anterior angles; anterior angles obtuse, with large trichobothria on anterior border; sides and convex posterior border finely margined; posterior angles obtuse, with large trichobothria at angle; surface nearly smooth, densely covered by slightly elongate punctures, finer on disc. Hypomera finely shagreened, with few scattered punctures; anterior border of hypomera straight. Anterior border of prosternum concave, finely margined, narrow in front of procoxae; prosternal process large, nearly as wide as transverse diameter of procoxae, expanded apically to enclose procoxae behind, glossy, with sparse disheveled long, fine translucent hairs. Metaventral process as wide as prosternal process, enlarged apically with lateral blunt lobes, convex at apex, smooth, unpunctured. Metaventrite shorter than mesoventrite, smooth, unpunctured on disc, with fine median longitudinal impression and apical median notch; sides convex, finely microreticulate, with sparse short appressed translucent hairs. Scutellum arched, as long as wide at base, with microreticulate surface, unpunctured. Elytra long, about as wide at base as base of pronotum, with humeral angles and sides weakly curved, widest at middle and regularly curved toward sutural angle at apical third; humeri marked, unpunctured, and elytral convexity weakly depressed transversally at basal third; elytra with eight regular striae of slit-like, seamed-like small punctures, larger, round and free on striae 3–8 basally; short subhumeral row of eight strong round punctures posteriorly joining marginal bead of punctures; short and nearly continuously impressed scutellar row, with punctures individualized only basally; elytral intervals convex, finely microreticulate, unpunctured. Femora smooth, strongly dilated, widest at middle; tibiae feebly curved, slightly shorter than corresponding femur, expanded toward apex; tarsi shorter than corresponding tibia, with first pro- and mesotarsomeres longer than wide and as long as next two segments together; claws appendiculate. Abdominal ventrites finely shagreened, with sparse fine translucent hairs in apical half; last visible ventrite emarginate at apex with small preapical impression at middle. Penis (Fig. 2g) stout, gradually and rather regularly curved ventrally from base to apex, with tip recurved dorsally in lateral view; sides gradually narrowing at middle in dorso-ventral view, expanding toward operculum and more strongly curved to apex, with projecting blunt, as long as wide at base tooth medially; dorsal flap of operculum subquadrate, with round angles.
Females (Fig. 4f): The females of K. millei sp. nov. show some distinctive traits, such as the sides of elytra slightly rounder, more slender, if shorter antennae and tarsi, without modified first pro- and mesotarsomeres; darker in coloration, particularly on pronotum, head, scutellum and ventral surfaces. Spermatheca (Fig. 5c) with cornu bulbous, round at apex, and nodulus slightly longer than cornu, at angle with axis of cornu and gradually narrowing basally; spermathecal duct apparently connected to base of cornu through widened sclerotized round, short funnel expansion.
Diagnosis: Kumatoeides millei sp. nov. is most similar to K. megale sp. nov. and the males of both species can be distinguished easily based on their genitalia, the tip of which in K. millei is narrower than its base and in K. megale it is broader. K. millei is larger but similar in appearance to K. aulacia sp. nov. and K. costata (Jolivet, Verma et Mille). From the former, they can be also distinguished by their characteristic penises in the case of males and in part by coloration and the marked posthumeral costa in K. aulacia in the case of females. From the latter, there are several diagnostic differences, including the separate versus seamed punctation of the scutellar stria or the absence versus presence of supraocular furrow, apart from marked differences in both male genitalia and spermathecae.
Derivatio nominis: This species is dedicated with affection to Dr. Christian Mille, researcher at the Institut Agronomique néo-Calédonien (La Foa, New Caledonia), and greatly committed to promoting and increasing the knowledge of the entomofauna of New Caledonia.
Distribution: The species is present at mid elevations of the southern edges of the Massif de la Boghen in the Central Range of the Grande Terre (Fig. 3b).
description: Published as part of Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, 2018, Description of Kumatoeides gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) from New Caledonia, pp. 89-115 in Zootaxa 4521 (1) on pages 105-107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2609701