Hesperopenna zofka Bezděk 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Hesperopenna
Hesperopenna zofka

description: Hesperopenna zofka sp. nov.
(Figs 18, 26, 33, 40, 47, 55)
Type locality. Indonesia, Java, Bogor env.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♂, ‘ West Java II.1991 / BOGOR env. / R. Čermák lgt. [w, p]’ (NMPC). PARATYPES: 2 ♂♂ 7 ♀♀, same data as in holotype (2 ♀♀ NMPC, 1 ♂ 3 ♀♀ in JBCP, 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀ in JSCP); 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ‘ID-JAVA cent. Kudus env. / Colo- 1 km N of / Gunung Muria 1050-1200m / 21.- 23.1.1998 / R. Červenka lgt. [w, p]’ (JBCB); 1 ♀, ‘ Indonesia, Bali occ. / 6 km E of Gilimanuk / 31.1.1998, R. Červenka lgt. / pitfall baited traps [w, p]’ (JBCB); 1 ♀, ‘ L. G. E. Kalshoven / Java [p] 700 [h] M. [p] / Djember [h] / 18.II [h] 19 [p] 19 [h] No [p] 842 [w, h] // 842 [w, h] // Le Moult vend. / via Reinbek / Eing. 1 – 1957 [w, p]’ (ZMUH); 1 ♂, ‘ L. G. E. Kalshoven / Java ……M. [p] / Djember [h] / XI [h] 19 [p] 19 [h] No [p] 842 [w, h] // Le Moult vend. / via Reinbek / Eing. 1 – 1957 [w, p]’ (ZMUH); 1 spec. unsexed, ‘ Java orient. / Montes Tengger / 4000´1890 / H. Fruhstorfer. [blue-gray label, p]’ (RMNH).
Description. Body length: ♂♂ 6.8–8.9 mm (holotype 6.9 mm), ♀♀ 7.6–9.4 mm.
Male (holotype, Fig. 55). Body yellowish orange, apices of mandibles black, antennomeres I and II yellowish, rest of antennomeres black, extreme lateral margin of epipleura in basal half black. Femora yellowish, tibiae and tarsi black, last two tarsomeres and claws dark brown. Last ventrite posteriorly with two small incisions (Fig. 26).
Interocular space 1.5 times as wide as transverse diameter of eye. Antennae 0.9 times as long as body, length ratio of antennomeres I to XI equals 15-5-7-14-14-15-15-15-15-13-15. Pronotum 1.40 times as broad as long. Elytra glabrous, 1.75 times as long as wide (measured at humeral calli), 0.75 times as long as body. Length ratio of metatarsomeres I–IV equals 12-6-4-9.
Aedeagus: dorsal side apically with symmetrical triangular incision; ventral side with very long thin incision medially (Fig. 18).
Female. Last ventrite with wide concavity at apex, lateral sides slightly concave (Fig. 33), pygidium with simple sharp triangular tip (Fig. 40). Spermatheca: nodulus large, globular, cornu regularly rounded, slightly narrower than nodulus (Fig. 47).
Variability. Ratio width/length of pronotum varies between 1.40–1.55.
Differential diagnosis. Hesperopenna zofka sp. nov. is very similar to H. tibialis. Both species share a similar structure of aedeagus with a very long basal orifice longer than the proximal part of aedeagus, bicolorous legs and glabrous elytra. Hesperopenna zofka sp. nov. differs from H. tibialis in black antennae with first two antennomeres yellow (completely yellow antennae in H. tibialis) and in epipleura always with black extreme lateral margin in the basal half (epipleura completely yellow or at most with brownish extreme lateral margin in H. tibialis). Males can be distinguished by the long thin incision on the ventral side of aedeagus which is placed medially in H. zofka sp. nov. while placed on the right side in H. tibialis (Figs 13, 18). Females of both species can be separated by the shape of pygidium: apex simply triangular in H. zofka sp. nov. while distinctly pointed in H. tibialis (Figs 36, 40).
Etymology. Dedicated to Žofka the small black cat of Jiří Hájek and Květa Kalíková. Noun in apposition.
Distribution. Indonesia (Java, Bali).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2013, Revision of the genus Hesperopenna (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). I. Generic redescription, definition of species groups and taxonomy of H. medvedevi species group, pp. 715-746 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2) on pages 739-740, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5740035