Caccothryptus brendelli Matsumoto 2021, sp. nov.

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)

Caccothryptus brendelli sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F29031E6-E8C9-4235-A03F-A483EA581FD2 Figs 1, 7A Diagnosis Caccothryptus brendelli sp. nov. is within C. testudo group and can be distinguished by several genital characters: (1) apex of median lobe narrow with tip slightly pointed in ventral view; (2) concave structure between apical emargination narrowly V-shaped with rounded end; (3) dorsal side of parameres bisinuate in lateral view; (4) apical emargination of parameres V-shaped in ventral view. Etymology This species is named after Martin J.D. Brendell, who was the curator of the Coleoptera Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. Material examined Holotype NEPAL • ♂; “NEPAL 5600’ Kathmandu Dist. Godawari 25/v/1983 // UNDER BARK OF DEAD TREE // M.J.D.Brendell BMNH(E) 1983-222 // NHMUK011225276 ”; BMNH. Description Male BODY. Elongate, oval, dorsum convex, EL: 3.36 mm, EW: 2.44 mm, PL: 0.94 mm, PW: 2.07 mm. Colour: dorsal side brown; venter brown, tibia reddish brown, tarsal claws light brown. Dorsal surface densely covered with long setae with patches of white setae forming a wavy pattern, ventral surface with relatively long setae. DORSUM. Head: partially retracted into pronotum; overall surface smooth, densely punctured across surface. Antennae: 11 segmented, filiform, fully pubescent, antennomeres long and slender, 1 st AS widest, 2 nd AS narrow and long, 3 rd AS smallest, 4 th –11 th AS long, thin and obtusely angled on one side. Pronotum: transverse, widest at posterior end, narrowest at anterior end, narrower than elytra; anterior margin convex, posterior margin trisinuate, lateral margin convex; surface covered with dense punctation, surface between punctures smooth and shiny. Scutellum: subtriangular, large, lateral sides nearly straight. Elytra: longer than wide; anterior margin slightly convex, sinuate; anterior lateral angle nearly right angled, pointed; lateral margins strongly bordered; surface with mixtures of small fine and medium sized punctuations; surface between punctures smooth and shiny. VENTER. Prosternum: concave on anterior margin, outer lateral margin concave; prosternal process as long as wide, lateral margin sinuated, posterior margin rounded. Mesoventrite: wider than long, narrowed towards posterior; anterior end concave where prosternal process fits, discrimen visible; laterally subparallel and gently curved, posteriorly flat, anteriorly trisinuate. Metaventrite: long and wide, flat on the middle; discrimen thin visible across each end. Abdomen: five clearly visible ventrites. Intercoxal process with pointed apex. Posterior margin of 1 st and 2 nd ventrites convex, 3 rd –4 th ventrites slightly concave around the middle, 5 th ventrite curved. Surface covered with long, light yellow, recumbent setae. LEGS. Tibia: protibia with outer and inner lateral ends curved. Meso- and metatibia with outer lateral margin almost straight, inner lateral margin straight. Tarsi: simple, segments increase in length towards the apex, 5 th tarsal segment as long as 1 st –4 th tarsal segment combined. Tarsal claws: long, narrow, symmetrical. GENITALIA. Aedeagus: elongate, strongly sclerotised. Base: asymmetrical, widest around basal 0.2 from both lateral and ventral view. Median lobe: approximately 2 / 5 length of genitalia; longer than parameres; gently curved on dorsal side, bisinuate on ventral side, widest at near apical end, narrowing towards apex, apex with round point in lateral view; apex flat split into two on anterior half and edge pointed, lower half of lateral end relatively straight in dorsal view; triangular emarginate on one side towards the parameres and small emarginate directing laterally in ventral view. Parameres: wider than median lobe in ventral view; apical emargination V-shaped, concave structure between parameres elongated narrow and deeply V-shaped with rounded end; bisinuate, lower half of sinuation long and shallow, upper half short and slightly deep on dorsal side in lateral view; gently curved on ventral side in lateral view; apex rounded and not overlapping median lobe, majority of parameres not overlapping median lobe with two spaces visible in lateral view. Female Unknown. Distribution Caccothryptus brendelli sp. nov. is known only from the type locality.