Cautires bolavensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Cautires
Name
Cautires bolavensis Dudkova, Pavla, 2010 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cautires bolavensis Dudkova, Pavla, 2010, Zootaxa 2527: 35-36.
Materials Examined
Type material. Male, holotype, Laos south., Attapu prov., Bolaven Plateau, 18.– 30. iv. 1999, 15 km SE of Ban Houaykong, Nong Lom (lake) env., N 15 °02‘ E106 ° 35 ‘, alt. 800 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (LMBC). Male, paratype, Laos, Khammouan Pr. Nakai env. 22. iv.– 8. vi. 2001, N 17 ° 43 ‘ E105 ° 09‘, alt. 600 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (LMBC). Differential diagnosis.C. bolavensis sp. n. differs from other sympatrically occurring species in the very slim and long apical part of the phallus and in the median position of paired spines (Fig. 25).
Description
Description. Male. Body small, dorsoventrally flattened, slender, body and appendages dark-brown to black, pronotum and elytra reddish brown with dense red pubescence. Head small, partly hidden in pronotum, clypeus slightly concave, without setae. Eyes large, hemispherically prominent, their frontal interocular distance 0.86 times eye diameter. Antennae shortly flabellate, 11 -segmented, covered with short, lightly coloured setae. Maxillary palpi slender, apical palpomere pointed; labial palpi short, similar in shape. Pronotum flat, slightly longitudinal, 1.15 times longer at midline than width at base; frontal margin concave; basal and lateral margins slightly elevated, pronotum with slender median areola, attached to middle of basal margin of pronotum, posterior angles acutely projected, bottom of areolae dark brown to black, costae brightly coloured, orange. Elytra flat, with separately rounded apexes, with well developed four primary longitudinal costae; secondary costae considerably weaker, cells regular. Legs laterally flattened, covered with light coloured setae, two apical tarsomeres light brown. Male genitalia with slender phallus, parallel-sided apically (Fig. 25). Female unknown. Measurements. BL 7.35 mm, PL 1.25 mm, PW 1.45 mm, HW 1.89 mm, Edist 0.48 mm, Ediam 0.56 mm.
Distribution
Distribution.C. bolavensis occurs in the Bolaven Plateau in Southern Laos (Attapu Province).
Etymology
Etymology.C. bolavensis sp. n. is named according to the type locality—the Bolaven Plateau in Southern Laos.
Taxon Treatment
- Dudkova, Pavla; Bocak, Ladislav; 2010: A review of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Indo – Burma (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Zootaxa 2527: 35-36. doi
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