Kumatoeides wanati Gómez-Zurita 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gómez-Zurita, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Kumatoeides
Kumatoeides wanati

description: Kumatoeides wanati sp. nov.
(Figs 2i, 3b, 4h, 5g, 6c)
Other material examined: (1) two males and one female, New Caledonia (N), -20.9510 165.2912, Pic d'Amoa (Povila [Poindinié County]), 400 m, lower rainforest, 18.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (2) one female, New Caledonia (N), -21.1489 165.3235, Aoupinié (refuge), 400 m, at light, 19.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (3) one male and one female, New Caledonia (N), -21.1489 165.3235, Aoupinié (refuge), 400 m, at light, 22.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat & R. Ruta, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (4) seven males and six females, New Caledonia (N), -21.1489 165.3235, Aoupinié (refuge) [Ponérihouen County], 400 m, at light, 25.xi.2010, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (5) two females, New Caledonia (N), -20.95280 165.29135, Pic d'Amoa (Povila), 400 m, rainforest, 22.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (6) one female, New Caledonia (N), -21.14890 165.32348, Aoupinié (refuge), 400 m, at light, 25.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (7) one male and one female, New Caledonia (N), -21.14890 165.32348, Aoupinié (refuge), 400 m, at light, 26.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (MNHW); (8) two females, IBE-JGZ-3973, New Caledonia (N), -21.14890 165.32348, Aoupinié (refuge), 400 m, at light, 26.xi.2008, leg. M. Wanat, Kumatoeides wanati m. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2018 (IBE-JGZ).
Head, including labrum, pronotum, scutellum and ventral surfaces brownish orange; antennae, mouth appendages, elytra and legs pale orange; apical half of last antennomere dark brown (Fig. 6c). Length: 2.54 mm (range: 2.41–3.10 mm); width: 1.36 mm (range: 1.28–1.59 mm).
Head hypognathous at rest; vertex and frons regularly convex, finely microreticulate, relatively densely covered by fine punctation; supraocular sulci extended above supraantennal calli. Clypeus short, wider at emarginate anterior border than long at middle, finely microreticulate with sparse, fine punctures. Labrum subquadrate, weakly emarginate at apex, microreticulate, unpunctured. Eyes large, bulging, nearly entire, feebly emarginate at inner border. Last maxillary palpomere spindle-shaped, obliquely cut at apex. Antennae slender, reaching middle of elytra; scape subcylindrical, slightly bent backward; pedicel short, subglobose; third antennomere club-shaped, slightly longer than pedicel; fourth antennomere shortly clavate, as long as pedicel; fifth antennomere clavate, 1.4x longer than third, with sparse, semierect whitish setae; sixth antennomere 1.2x longer than third, hairier than fifth; antennomeres 7–11 weakly enlarged, granulose, pubescent; seventh antennomere clavate, nearly 1.8x longer than third; antennomeres 8–10 subequal, about 1.6x longer than third; last antennomere acuminate at apical third. Pronotum transverse (1.52x as wide at base as long along middle); sides round, widest at middle, with slightly explanate margin, larger at anterior, widely obtuse angles, and feebly notched before obtuse posterior angles; anterior border straight, unmargined, with large trichobothria at ends, nearly on angles; posterior border regularly convex, finely margined, with trichobothria at both ends; surface finely microreticulate, covered by fine punctures, denser on disc than at sides, with interspaces larger than diameter of punctures. Hypomera finely microreticulate, unpunctured, with anterior border straight. Prosternum narrow anteriorly; prosternal process about 0.75x as wide as transverse diameter of procoxae, smooth, glossy, with sparse, relatively long, disheveled fine yellowish hairs, transversely expanded at apex to enclose procoxae posteriorly. Process of mesoventrite as wide as prosternal process, glossy, unpunctured, shortly expanded at apex, posterior border convex. Metaventrite slightly shorter than mesoventrite, flat and shiny on disc, with finely impressed median suture and sharp apical median notch; sides finely shagreened with sparse, short, posteriorly recumbent fine yellowish setae. Scutellum as long as wide at base, regularly round at apex, finely microreticulate, unpunctured. Elytra long, regularly convex, as wide at base as pronotum basally; humeral angles round and sides feebly curved, widest slightly before middle; humeri marked, unpunctured; surface microreticulation subtler than on pronotum, with eight regular striae of fine punctures, slit-like at apical half of elytra and slightly elongate on striae 1–5 basally, larger and round on striae 6–8 basally and on short subhumeral striae, connected to elytral margin before middle of elytron; short scutellar striae of 11–12 small and occasionally geminate punctures present; interstrices nearly flat on disc basally, weakly convex at sides and apex of elytra. Femora enlarged at middle; tibiae shorter than corresponding femur and tarsi shorter than corresponding tibia; first pro- and mesotarsomeres short but conspicuously enlarged in males. Abdominal ventrites finely shagreened, unpunctured, with sparse yellowish hairs, finer than on metaventrite; last visible ventrite emarginate at apex, with short median longitudinal impression. Penis (Fig. 2i) slender, in lateral view more strongly curved at both ends than at middle, imperceptibly narrowing from base to apex, tapering at distal end beyond operculum; sides slightly concave in dorso-ventral view, widening and following ovoid contour of operculum preapically; apical border with long and narrow median projection, feebly dilated at apex.
Females (Fig. 4h): The females of this species are very similar to males in shape and coloration, although often with scutellum, elytral suture basally, and sometimes disc of pronotum darkened, and can be recognized externally by lack of modifications in first pro- and mesotarsomeres, as well as the entire posterior border of the last visible abdominal ventrite and raised elytral intervals at sides of elytra behind humeri. Spermatheca (Fig. 5g) with kidney shaped cornu and long, narrow and cylindrical nodulus with pre-median insertion of spermathecal gland.
Diagnosis: Kumatoeides wanati sp. nov. is similar to K. tarsalis sp. nov., but it is paler, except for the apical half of the last antennomere, which is conspicuously darkened. Both the female and the male genitalia of the two species are completely different too.
Derivatio nominis: This species is dedicated with gratitude to Dr. Marek Wanat (Muzeum Przyrodnicze, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wroclaw, Poland) for generously confiding me the study of the New Caledonian Eumolpinae collected in his several campaigns in the archipelago.
Distribution: The species appears to have a relatively ample distribution in the eastern slopes of the Central Range, from near Poindimié to Canala counties (Fig. 3b).
description: Published as part of Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, 2018, Description of Kumatoeides gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) from New Caledonia, pp. 89-115 in Zootaxa 4521 (1) on pages 110-113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2609701