Cautires walteri
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Cautires
Name
Cautires walteri Bocak sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype. Male, Java, Rancabali, 45 km S of Bandung, 1700 m, 12. Oct. 2002, Bolm lgt. (LMBC). Paratypes. 2 males, data same as for holotype (KMTC, LMBC).
Etymology
The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of the late Dr Walter Wittmer (Basel).
Differential diagnosis
Cautires walteri resemble Cautires sukosarensis in the relatively small eyes and these species differ in the shape of body and male genitalia. Cautires walteri is characterized by the slender, small body and moderately robust phallus (Figs 1, 14).
Description
Male. Body small-sized, dorso-ventrally flattened, slender; body, posterior half of elytra and appendages dark-brown to black; pronotum and basal half of elytra bright orange red, pronotum and elytra covered with dense orange pubescence (Fig. 4). Head small, clypeus slightly concave, labrum simply rounded, mandibles slender, strongly curved, apical palpomeres pointed (Fig. 23). Eyes small, hemispherically prominent, their frontal interocular distance 1.25 times eye diameter. Antennae shortly flabellate, 11-segmented, covered with short, dark colored setae (Fig. 19). Pronotum flat, transverse, 1.19 times wider at base than length at midline; frontal margin projected forward; lateral margins slightly elevated, convex, posterior angles acutely projected, pronotum with moderately robust median areola, attached to middle of basal margin of pronotum, connected to anterior margin by keel occupying one third of midline, lateral keels absent. Elytra flat, with well developed four primary longitudinal costae; secondary costae considerably weaker, cells regular, tiny, mostly quadrate. Legs laterally flattened, covered with dark colored setae. Phallus moderately robust, widest at midlength (Fig. 14). Female unknown.
Measurements
BL 6.65 mm, PL 1.01 mm, PW 1.20 mm, HW 1.50 mm, Edist 0.50 mm, Ediam 0.40 mm.
Distribution
Cautires walteri is known only in the type series from Western Java.
Original Description
- Bocak, L; 2012: A revision of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Java (Coleoptera, Lycidae) ZooKeys, 241: 55-66. doi
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