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

description: Lycocerus nakladali sp. nov.
Figs. 15, 73–77.
Type locality. China, Yunnan province, Baoshan prefecture, mountain range 25 km south of Tengchong, 24°48ˏ28˝ N 98°32ˏ 03˝E, 1900 m a.s.l.
Type material. Holotype (NMEG), male, “ CHINA (Yunnan), Baoshan Pref., mount. range 25 km S Baoshan, 24°48ˏ28˝ N 98°32ˏ 03˝E, 1900 m (devastated primary decid. forest, litter, sifted), 2.VI.2007, D. W. Wrase [lgt.], [17] [white label, printed]”. Paratypes (NMPC), “ China: Yunnan pr., Gaoligong Shan [mts.], pass SW Baoshan, 4.– 8.vi.2005, O. Nakládal lgt. [white label, printed]”, 2 females.
Description. Coloration (Fig. 15). Head black with arcuate, wide honey yellow spot on vertex, reaching anteriorly posterior margin of eyes and with two small, isolated terracotta spots between eyes. Frons before eyes laterally and mandibles sienna, antennae black. Prosternum black, pronotum terracotta with narrow, mediolongitudinal black spot. Anterior legs black with narrowly ferrugineous knees and claws, meso- and metafemora with more or less ferrugineous upper sides, rest of legs sooty with ferrugineous claws. Scutellum, meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen black, elytra ferrugineous with narrowly black suture, reaching one to two thirds of elytral length, black coloration is slightly wider in basal quarter to third of sutural length.
Male. Eyes large, strongly protruding, head across eyes moderately wider than pronotum, lateral sides of head behind eyes straight, strongly converging posteriorly. Antennae extending distinctly beyond three quarters of elytral length, antennomeres 3–10 flattened, 3–6 subtriangular, 7–8 long trapezoid, 9–10 slender, nearly parallel-sided, 11 slightly curved (Fig. 73), very slightly constricted for two thirds of its length. Surface of head very finely imbricate-punctate, with sparse, long, semierect ferrugineous pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum slightly wider than long, anterior margin moderately convex, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins moderately sinuate in their anterior half, strongly diverging posteriorly, posterior corners moderately protruding laterad, nearly sharp, posterior margin slightly convex. Surface of pronotum sculptured and pubescent like that of head, semilustrous. Claws simple. Elytra moderately dilated posteriorly, apex of each elytron rounded, elytral venation well developed, two sutural veins almost costate. Surface of elytra very finely areolate-rugose with short, denser, decumbent ferrugineous pubescence combined with much longer and sparser, ferrugineous recumbent one, matt, almost velvety. Aedeagus as in Figs. 75–77.
Female. Eyes smaller and less protruding than in male, head across eyes narrower than pronotum by almost one sixth, lateral sides of head behind eyes only moderately converging posteriorly, moderately convex. Antennae reaching ca elytral midlength, antennomeres 3–8 flattened, 3 subtriangular, 4–7 widely trapezoid, 8 nearly parallelsided, 9–11 slender (Fig. 74). Pronotum by almost one fifth wider than long, posterior corners not so protruding as in male, obtuse. Surface of pronotum with denser pubescence than in male, matt. Outer claws of pro- and mesotarsi with basal projection. Last sternite very similar to that in Fig. 70.
Length (both sexes). 11.2–12.8 mm.
Differential diagnosis. See following key.
Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to one of its collector, Oto Nakládal (Praha, Czech Republic). Distribution. China: Yunnan 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 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277686