Plateros unisuturalis Kazantsev 2020, sp.n.
Creators: name: Kazantsev, S. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Plateros
Plateros unisuturalis

description: Plateros unisuturalis Kazantsev, sp.n.   
Figs 12–13, 29–30.  
MATERIAL: Holotype, ♂, Indonesia, S Sulawesi, W Palopo, trail nr. Puri Rimba Resort, 2°58´00´´S 120°05´13´´E, 720–850 m, 23–27.I.2020, S. Kazantsev leg. (ICM).  
 DESCRIPTION. Male. Orange testaceous; ultimate labial palpomeres, maxillary palpomeres 3–4, antennomere 1 distally, antennomeres 3–11, femora and tibiae distally, tarsi and abdomen, except terminal segments (ventrite 8 and tergites 9–10), dark brown (Fig. 12).   
Vertex with small deep round impression behind antennal prominence. Eyes moderately large, interocular distance subequal in length to eye diameter. Labrum small, transverse, almost truncate anteriorly, inconspicuously emarginate medially. Palps slender; ultimate palpomeres small, elongate, gradually widened distally, obliquely truncate and flattened at apex. Antennal sockets separated by narrow lamina. Antennae attaining to elytral four fifths, antennomeres 3–10 serrate; antennomere 3 ca. 2.5 times longer than antennomere 2 and 1.5 times shorter than antennomere 4; antennomeres 3– 11 with long erect pubescence (Figs 12–13).  
Pronotum transverse, ca. 1.2 times as wide as long, conspicuously bisinuate basally and triangularly produced anteriorly, with almost straight parallel sides, acute rounded posterior and conspicuous blunt anterior angles. Scutellum trapezoidal, slightly widening and rounded distally (Fig. 13).  
Elytra long, ca. 3.8 times longer than wide at humeri, noticeably widening distally, with four equally developed primary costae; interstices 4–5 with even rows of small sub-rectangular transverse cells, interstice 1 with irregular reticulation, except in the middle, interstices 2–3 with even rows of small sub-rectangular transverse cells, except basally; pubescence short and decumbent (Fig. 12).  
Legs relatively robust (Fig. 12).  
Aedeagus with elongate narrow curved median lobe; phallobase relatively broad, with fused lateral sutures (Figs 29–30).  
 Female. Unknown.   
Length: 10.2 mm. Width (humerally): 2.4 mm.  
ETYMOLOGY. The name of the new species is derived from the Latin for´with one suture´, alluding to the fused lateral sutures of its phallobase.  
 DIAGNOSIS. Plateros unisuturalis sp.n. is somewhat similar to P. tanatorajensis Tvardik, Bocák, 2001 in the shape of the male genitalia, separable by the testaceous upperside, as well as by the differently bent median lobe of the aedeagus (Figs 12–13, 29–30).   
 REMARKS. Plateros unisuturalis sp.n., 10.2 mm long, is the largest male Plateros specimen known from Sulawesi so far. Only the female of Plateros toliensis Tvardik et Bocák, 2001, 10.9 mm long, somewhat exceeds it in length [Tvardik, Bocák, 2001].
description: Published as part of Kazantsev, S. V., 2020, New species of Plateros Bourgeois from Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Lycidae), pp. 161-172 in Russian Entomological Journal 29 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.29.2.07, http://zenodo.org/record/13165813