Cautires dembickyi
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Cautires
Name
Cautires dembickyi Dudkova, Pavla, 2010 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cautires dembickyi Dudkova, Pavla, 2010, Zootaxa 2527: 36-36.
Materials Examined
Type material. Male, holotype, NE India, Meghalaya, 3 km E of Tura, 500–1150 m25 ° 30 ‘ N, 90 ° 14 ’E. 1.– 8. v. 1999, L. Dembicky and P. Pacholatko leg. (LMBC). Differential diagnosis.C. dembickyi sp. n. is the only species, which has been found in North-eastern India. It is similar in body shape and colouration to C. testaceus from Southern Burma which differs in the size of eyes and the shape of male genitalia (Fig. 26).
Description
Description. Male. Body small, dorsoventrally flattened, slender, body dark brown to black, pronotum and elytra reddish brown. Head small, hypognathous, partly hidden in pronotum, vertex slightly concave, without setae. Eyes small, elliptical, strongly convex, frontal distance between eyes 1.50 times eye diameter. Antennae shortly flabellate, 11 -segmented, covered with short light coloured setae. Maxillary palpi slender, apical palpomere pointed; basal palpomere long, wide in middle; labial palpi short and apical palpomere slender. Pronotum and elytra densely pubescent, pubescence brightly coloured. Pronotum 1.27 times wider than long, slightly concave frontally, basal and lateral margins slightly elevated, strengthened by ridge-like edge; posterior angles sharply projected, two costae form distinct median areola attached to basal margin of pronotum, two less conspicuous lateral areolae at frontal margin (Fig. 20); bottoms of areolae dark brown, ridges bright orange. Elytra with four primary longitudinal costae; secondary costae weaker, cells regular, rectangular in shape. Legs laterally compressed, covered with light coloured setae, two apical tarsomeres light brown, with light setae. Male genitalia with wide apical part of phallus (Fig. 26). Female unknown. Measurements. BL 7.30 mm, PL 1.21 mm, PW 1.54 mm, HW 1.89 mm, Edist 0.58 mm, Ediam 0.39 mm.
Distribution
Distribution. North-eastern India, Meghalaya.
Etymology
Etymology. The specific epithet " dembickyi " is a patronym in honor of L. Dembicky (Brno), the collector of the holotype.
Taxon Treatment
- Dudkova, Pavla; Bocak, Ladislav; 2010: A review of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Indo – Burma (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Zootaxa 2527: 36-36. doi
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