Lycocerus verticalis Švihla, 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Lycocerus
Lycocerus verticalis

description: Lycocerus verticalis sp. nov.
Figs. 17, 83–87.
Type locality. Northern Myanmar, We Sa Dam village, 50 km northwest of Putao, 950 m a.s.l.
Type material. Holotype (NMPC), male, “N Myanmar, We Sa Dam vill., 50 km NW Putao, 950 m, 17.v.1998, S. Murzin, V. Siniaev lgt. [white label, printed]”. Paratypes (NMPC), “N Myanmar, Zi Yar Dam, 65 km NW Putao, 1250 m, 18.–25.v.1998, S. Murzin, V. Siniaev lgt. [white label, printed]”, 1 male 1 female.
Description. Coloration (Fig. 17). Head black, mandibles ferrugineous, vertex with large, oval honey yellow spot, reaching between eyes anteriorly. Antennae sooty. Pronotum honey yellow with narrow mediolongitudinal black stripe, reaching base and mostly also anterior margin of pronotum. Pro-, meso- and metasternum and ventral part of abdomen sooty, mesothoracic epimera honey yellow. Legs sooty, claws, knees, narrow apices of meso- and metatibiae and inner portion of protibiae honey yellow. Scutellum black, elytra honey yellow.
Male. Eyes comparatively small, moderately protruding, head across eyes ca as wide as pronotum, sides of head behind eyes moderately convex, slightly converging posteriorly. Antennae reaching ca three quarters of elytral length, antennomeres 3–8 flattened, moderately widened, 3–6 long triangular (Fig. 86), 7–8 nearly parallelsided, 9–11 slender. Surface of head very finely imbricate-punctate, with fine, sparse, yellow decumbent pubescence, semilustrous. Pronotum ca as long as wide, anterior margin convex, anterior corners rounded, lateral margins very slightly concave, moderately diverging posteriorly, posterior corners obtuse, posterior margin convex in middle portion, protruding posteriad, sinuate before corners. Surface of pronotum sculptured like that of head but more densely pubescent, matt. Claws simple. Elytra parallel-sided, apex of each elytron rounded, venation slightly developed, hardly visible. Surface of elytra rugulose-lacunose, with dense, shorter, decumbent yellow pubescence, combined with much sparser, semierect pubescence, matt. Aedeagus as in Figs. 83–85.
Female. Eyes less protruding than in male, head across eyes moderately narrower than pronotum. Antennae shorter, reaching ca one third of elytral length, antennomeres 3–8 dilated and flattened, 3 subtriangular, 4–7 roundly trapezoid (Fig. 87), 8 long oval, 9–11 slenderer than 8, long oval. Pronotum wider than long by ca one quarter, lateral margins straight, posterior margin moderately convex. Outer claws of pro- and mesotarsi with basal projection. Elytral venation slightly more distinct than in male. Last abdominal sternite very similar to that in Fig. 70.
Length (both sexes). 8.8–10.4 mm.
Differential diagnosis. See following key.
Etymology. Derived from Latin vertex = crown, vertex, named in the reference to the large spot on the posterior portion of the head.
Distribution. Northern Myanmar.
description: Published as part of Švihla, Vladimír, 2011, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2895 on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277686