Eulichas kubani Hajek, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hájek, Ji Ř Í
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas kubani

description: Eulichas kubani Hájek, sp. nov.
(Figs. 25, 41, 62)
Type locality. Laos, Boli Kham Xai Prov., 8 km NE of Ban Nape
Type material. 78 specimens — Holotype ɗ (NMPC), labelled: “LAOS-CE, 1–18.v.2001, / Boli Kham Xai prov., / 18°21’N 105°08’E, / BAN NAPE (8 km NE), / ~ 600m, Vít Kubáň leg. [printed] / Biological expedition / „ Laos 2001“ / Moravian Museum Brno / Czech Republic [printed]”. Paratypes: 25ɗɗ (nos. 1–25) 13ΨΨ (nos. 26–39), same label data as holotype (MZMB, NHMW, NMPC); 19ɗɗ (nos. 40–58) 18ΨΨ (nos. 59–76), same label data, but “L. Dembický leg.” (NMPC); 1ɗ (no. 77), “ Vietnam SW / Vinh [Ha Tinh prov.] Kimcuong [= Kim Cuõoõng, ca. 18°27’N 105°15’E] / 29 III 1963 Kabakov [handwritten] // Lichas [handwritten]” (ZMAS).
Additional material studied. 3 specimens — LAOS: 1ɗ, Hua Phan prov., 25 km SE Vieng Xai (by road), Ban Kangpabong env., 20°19’N 104°25’E, 14–18.v.2001, D. Hauck leg. (NMPC); 2ɗɗ, same label data, but J. Bezdĕk leg. (NMPC).
Description. Habitus elongate, fusiform. Body colouring blackish. Pale part of setation consists of recumbent greyish setae forming typical ocellations on pronotum, elytra and abdominal sternites, where setae are darker and sparser (Fig. 62).
Measurements. Males: 22–28 mm (holotype 24 mm); females: 25–33 mm.
Head punctation consists of coarse setigerous punctures. Antenna robust, last antennomere ca. 1.96–2.22 times as long as wide (Fig. 41), its ventral side smooth with numerous small tubercles.
Pronotum largely transverse, ca. 2.09–2.20 times as wide as long. Sides almost regularly rounded. The disc with two rounded shallow depressions. Punctation consists of moderately large and sparse setigerous punctures on the disc, and somewhat coarser and denser punctures laterally.
Elytra with numerous longitudinal rows of large setigerous punctures, and very fine interstitial punctures.
Ventral part punctured with fine punctures, which are sparse medially and become larger and denser laterally. Last abdominal ventrite laterally regularly rounded to apex.
Male. Aedeagus with phallobase longer than parameres. Parameres simple, their subapical hook is reduced to an indistinct angle. Median lobe slender, subparallel (Fig. 25).
Female. Similar to male in habitus, but on average larger. Antenna shorter, and more slender.
Remarks. Three males from Hua Phan province agree well with typical specimens in habitus, body colouration and shape of last antennomere. However, the parameral subapical hook is not completely reduced in these specimens. As I am not able to resolve whether this is intraspecific variability or a different taxon, I did not designate these specimens as paratypes.
Differential diagnosis. In habitus, the new species is similar to species from the E. funebris species complex. However the reduction of parameral subapical hook refer this species to the E. pacholatkoi species complex. E. kubani sp. nov. differs from that species by the habitus less elongate, blackish body colouration with greyish setation, and the last antennomere longer, than in E. pacholatkoi.
Collection circumstances. Collected at light.
Distribution. So far known only from several localities in the Annam Highlands, on both sides of the Laotian – Vietnamese border.
Etymology. The new species is dedicated to its collector, my friend Vítĕzslav Kubáň (Brno, Czech Republic), a specialist on Buprestidae.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Ji Ř Í, 2007, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) I. Introduction, morphology of adults, key to subgenera and species groups, and taxonomy of E. funebris species group, pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 1620 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.179178