Eulichas serricornis Hajek, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eulichadidae
Eulichas
Eulichas serricornis

description: Eulichas serricornis Hájek, sp. nov.
(Figs. 16, 37, 57, 77, 85)
Type locality. Malaysia, Perak, ca. 48 km NNE of Ipoh, Felda Lasah vill., ca. 05°02.3’N 101°12.3’E, 120– 390 m.
Type material. 60 specimens — Holotype 3 (NMPC), labelled: “W MALAYSIA, Perak distr., / FELDA LASAH vill.env., 48 km NNE of IPOH / N 05° 02,3’, E 101° 12,3’, 120–390 m, / 13.–21.iii.2001 / M. Štrba leg. [printed]”. Paratypes: 333 (nos. 1–3), same label data as holotype (NMPC); 633 (nos. 4–9), same label data, but “P. Šomody leg.” (NMPC); 13 (no. 10), “ PERAK, F. M. S. / Batang Padang / Jor Camp [printed] 1800 [handwritten] ft. [printed] / March 16th [handwritten] 1923 / H. M Pendlebury [printed] / [on reverse:] Ex Coll: / F. M. S. / Museums. // Ex F.M.S. / Museum. / B.M. 1955-354. [printed]” (BMNH); 13 (no. 11), same label data, but “ June 4th 1923 ” (BMNH); 13 (no. 12), same label data, but “light Feb. 26th 1924 ” (BMNH); 13 (no. 13), same label data, but “ Jan 26th 1925 ” (BMNH); 13 (no. 14), “ PERAK F.M.S. / Batang Padang, / KUALA WOH / Mar: [printed] 20th [handwritten] 1940 [printed] / [on reverse:] Selangor Mus: / Collectors. [printed] // Ex F.M.S. / Museum. / B.M. 1955-354. [printed]” (BMNH); 13 (no. 15) 1Ƥ (no. 16), “Tapah- Tanah R / W MALAYSIA / 1976 VII / Native coll. [printed]” (EUMC); 1Ƥ (no. 17), “ 12 II 2001 / 19miles Cameron / High Land Maley. / A. et R. ABE leg. [printed]” (EUMC); 333 (nos. 18–20), “ MALAYSIA, PERAK / Cameron Highlands / BATU (= MILE) 19 vill. env. / 04°22.2’N, 101°20.0’E; 590 m / Jiří Hájek leg. 25.iv.–11.v.2009 [printed]” (NMPC); 13 (no. 21), “ Cameron High / Malaysia / III. 1974 / Nat. coll.
[handwritten]” (EUMC); 333 (nos. 22–24), “ Cameron Highlands / MALAYSIA / late April 1987 [printed]” (EUMC); 13 (no. 25), “PAHANG, F. M. S. / Lubok Tamang [printed] / 3.500 [handwritten] ft. [printed] / June 11th [handwritten] 1923 / H. M. Pendlebury. [printed] / [on reverse:] Ex Coll / F. M. S. / Museums. [printed] // Ex F.M.S. / Museum. B.M. 1955-354 [printed]” (BMNH); 333 (nos. 26–28), “ MALAYSIA - Pahang / Banjaran Benom / Lata Jarom / 6.– 8.3.1997 / Ivo Jeniš leg. [printed]” (IJCM, NMPC); 13 (no. 29), “ MALAYSIA Pahang Distr. / 30 km NE RAUB, Lata Lembik / (3°56’N, 101°38’E), 200–400 m / 22.IV.–1.V., 8.–15.V.2002 / E. Jendek & O. Šauša leg. [printed]” (NMPC); 13 (no. 30), “ Malaysia, Pahang, Fraser’s / Hill, 1200 m 20.2 1991 light / B. Gustafsson, H et H Hippa / G. Sellerholm [printed]” (NHRS); 13 (no. 31), “ TAMAN NEGARA NP / Kuala Juram, E. of Merapoh / 4°39’ N 102°08’ E / 13.III.1999 // MALAYSIA / Pahang / J.P. & M.J. Duffels, / M.Zaidi & M.Y. Ruslan // edge primary rainforest / (near dormitory) / at light [printed]” (ZMAN); 13 (no. 32), “ MALAY PENIN: [printed] / Kelantan / Ledlad / 23.2. 1936 [handwritten] / / Ex F.M.S. / Museum. / B.M. 1955-354 [printed]” (BMNH); 433 (nos. 33–36), “ MALAYSIA 10.– 16.iv.1999 / Kelantan prov. / Kampomg Raja env. / lgt. Mir. Janalík [printed]” (NMPC, VKCZ); 13 (no. 37), “ MALAYSIA W., KELANTAN / Road between Kampong Raja / and Gua Musang, 1400–1700m / (Ladang Pandrak), 1–28.iv.2006 / 4°63’N- 101°45’E – 4°88’N- / 101°95’E, Cechovsky Petr lgt. [printed]” (NMPC); 333 (nos. 38–40), “ MALAYSIA / Cameron / Highlands [printed]” (ZSMC); 233 (nos. 41–42), “Taiping - Malaysia / X-1980 // Dono S. Riese / 1984 [handwritten]” (MCSN); 333 (nos. 43–45), “ Malaysia [handwritten]” (MCSN); 13 (nos. 46), “ Malaysia / Ulu Gombak / Kuala Lumpur [printed] / July 21. 1971 [handwritten] / R. E. Parrott [printed]” (CNCO); 13 (no. 47) 1Ƥ (no. 48), same label data, but “ July 22. 1971 ” (CNCO); 13 (no. 49), same label data, but “ 19-VIII-. 1971” (CNCO); 13 (no. 50), same label data, but “ AUG 19. 1971 ” (CNCO); 1Ƥ (no. 51), same label data, but “ AUG 21. 1971 ” (CNCO); 1Ƥ (no. 52), same label data, but “ AUG 22. 1971 ” (CNCO); 433 (nos. 53–56) 3ƤƤ (nos. 57–59), same label data, but “ AUG 24. 1971 ” (CNCO, NMPC).
Description. Habitus elongate, fusiform. Body colouring from brownish-red to brown. Pale part of setation consists of recumbent yellow greyish, or whitish setae forming indistinct ocellations on pronotum, and characteristic ocellations on elytra (Fig. 16).
Measurements. Males: 20–24 mm (holotype 23 mm); females: 26–30 mm.
Head punctation consists of sparse, irregularly distributed moderately large setigerous punctures. Antenna long, slender, antennomeres 3–10 distinctly serrate, last antennomere filiform, 4.01–5.10 times as long as wide (Fig. 37), its ventral side smooth.
Pronotum trapezoidal, ca. 1.91–2.04 times as wide as long. Sides almost regularly rounded (Fig. 57). The disc with two oval shallow depressions. Punctation consists of sparse moderately coarse setigerous punctures on the disc, which become slightly coarser and denser laterally.
Elytra with numerous longitudinal rows of moderately large punctures, and very fine interstitial setigerous punctures.
Ventral part 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 shorter than parameres. Parameres simple, parallel sided, slender – the most slender in the middle of their length. Their subbasal hook is missing, but the subapical hook is well developed. Median lobe slender, rather subparallel (Fig. 77).
Female. Similar to male in habitus, but larger. Antenna shorter, and more slender.
Differential diagnosis. The new species is similar to other Malayan species of Eulichas, in particular to E. robusta sp. nov. and E. sausai sp. nov. From the first mentioned species, it differs in its smaller body size; from all species, E. serricornis sp. nov. differs significantly in the distinctly serrate antennomeres 3–10, and long, nearly filiform antennomere 11.
Collection circumstances. Most specimens were collected at light. At the locality “Batu 19” (Cameron Highlands, Perak, Malaysia), it was found sitting on vegetation near the riverbank (ca. 6–8 m wide, mostly with sandy bottom) in mountain rainforest, at the altitude ca. 590 m a.s.l. (Fig. 86).
Distribution. So far known only from several localities in Kelantan, Pahang and Perak provinces in the Malay Peninsula.
Etymology. The name is derived from Latin words for “serrate” and “cornu” [= antenna], which refer to the characteristic shapes of antennomeres of the new species.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří, 2009, Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) II. E. dudgeoni species group, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 2192 on pages 32-34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189396