Glipa (Stenoglipa) badanoi Ruzzier 2018, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ruzzier, Enrico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Mordellidae
Glipa
Glipa badanoi

description: Glipa (Stenoglipa) badanoi sp. n. (Fig. 1A, 1D)
Description (Holotype). Length: 16 mm.
Head. Ground colour of integument black, densely covered by fine, thick silvery-grey setae with the exception of a large, black, setose, circular spot close to occipital margin. Eyes quite large, hairy and finely facetted, reaching occiput. Mouthparts paler than remaining integument, covered by slightly golden pubescence. Maxillary palpi brown with last segment shaped like an isosceles triangle. Antennae moderately long, weakly serrate, reaching elytral humeri. Last antennal segment ellipsoidal, 1.4× length of tenth segment.
Pronotum. Ground colour of integument black, entirely covered by silvery setae similar to those of head, except for longitudinal black band extending along median line from occipital margin to posterior lobe of pronotum, and two black circular lateral patches.
Scutellum. Scutellum triangular, densely covered by silvery-grey setae.
Elytra. Elytra long and slender, length 2.5× maximum width at humeri. Ground colour of integument black; black patches on elytra densely covered with black setae. Elytral humeral band XX shaped (sensu Takakuwa 2000), developing from humeral callus for 1/5 of elytral length, covered by dense, silvery-white setae. Median elytral band consisting of an almost C-shaped pattern of white setae surrounding patch of black setae. Apical elytral band small (width 1.2× length), formed from dense silvery-white pubescence (Fig. 1A).
Venter. Ground colour of the integument black, covered by sparse, silvery-white pubescence. Profemora pale orange-brown, protibiae and medial legs black. Hind legs black; all legs covered by same pubescence as remainder of body. Pygidium very long, pointed and strongly keeled dorsally; length 6× basal width and 3× length of hypopygidium.
Genitalia. Parameres asymmetrical (Fig. 1D). Left paramere U-shaped, with parallel branches. Major branch length 1.4× length of minor. Major branch apex rounded, expanded and flattened. Minor branch straight. Right paramere straight, Y-shaped. Minor branch situated at inner margin of the paramere, at 3/5 of total paramere length.
Variability. All the paratypes are homogeneous both in terms of size and colour, differing very little from the holotype; dimensions are included in the 16 ± 1 mm range while the only variation in the chromatic pattern concerns the medial elytral band which in some specimens is no longer C-shaped but irregularly defined.
Diagnosis. The new species can be included in the Glipa (S.) nipponica species group (sensu Takakuwa 2000) and associated with Glipa (Stenoglipa) gracillima Takakuwa, 2000 (Fig. 1B) from SW Borneo due to the narrowed body profile (in dorsal view), silvery-white pubescence and long pygidium. The new species can be separated from the latter based on the pattern of elytral bands (Fig, 1ĀB) and genitalia (Fig. 1D ̄E); in G. badanoi the median elytral band is almost C-shaped while in G. gracillima the white band profile is much more irregular, with the distal margin produced towards to the elytral apex. Glipa badanoi can be separated from the sympatric G. ishigakiana kotoensis using the following characters: body profile narrow and elongate, pygidium 3× length of hypopygidium in G. badanoi (Fig. 1A), body stout and pygidium 2.7× length of hypopygidium in G. ishigakiana kotoensis (Fig. 1C); lastly, the two species can be clearly separated based on the elytral chromatic pattern and genitalia (Fig. 1D ¯F).
Type material. Holotype: male, labeled Philippines, Cagayan Valley, Quirino, Nagtipunan, iv. 2014. Local collector leg. (BMNH). Paratypes: 1 male labeled: Philippines, Mimaro, Oriental Mindoro, Baco, i. 2015, Local collector leg. (ERPC); 2 males labeled: Philippines, Mimaro, Oriental Mindoro, Baco, iii. 2015, Local collector leg. (1 JHPC,1 NMPC); 1 male labeled: Philippines, Mimaro, Oriental Mindoro, Baco, iv. 2015, Local collector leg. (JHPC); 1 ex (sex not determined) labeled: Philippines, Mimaro, Oriental Mindoro, Baco, i. 2016, Local collector leg. (ERPC); 1 male labelled: Philippines, Cagayan Valley Prov., Quirino, Maddela, Disimungal, Sierra Madre, ix. 2015. Local collector leg. (ERPC); 2 males labelled: Philippines, Cagayan Valley Prov., Quirino, Tapsoy, Sierra Madre, iv. 2016. Local collector leg. (ERPC); 1 female labelled: Philippines, Cagayan Valley Prov., Quirino, Maddela, Disimungal, Sierra Madre, viii. 2017. Local collector leg. (ERPC).
Etymology. The author is pleased to name this species after Davide Badano (Taggia, Italy), specialist on Neuroptera, as a sign of friendship and esteem.
description: Published as part of Ruzzier, Enrico, 2018, A new species of Glipa LeConte, 1859 subgenus Stenoglipa Franciscolo, 1952 (Coleoptera: Mordellidae: Mordellini) from the Philippines, pp. 397-400 in Zootaxa 4410 (2) on pages 397-399, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/1221508