Eniclases elelimensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Eniclases
Name
Eniclases elelimensis Bocek & Bocak, 2016 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
Holotype. Female (BM0056), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Elelim, path to Apalapsili, 600 m, Nov.–Dec. 1991 (LMBC). Paratypes. 2 females (BM0051–52), the same data as the holotype (LMBC).
Diagnosis
Eniclases elelimensis differs from Eniclases brancuccii in slightly smaller eyes (Table 1), but no morphological difference has been found to discriminate this species from some similarly colored individuals of Eniclases variabilis (Figs 24–25, 28–29) and morphology based identification can reliably assign similarly colored specimens only to the clade of Eniclases variabilis and related species.
Description
Male. Body length 6.9–8.1 mm, robust, head, antennae, thorax, elytra, and abdomen dark brown to black, pronotum and femora yellow to light orange, apical part of femora, tibiae, and tarsi dark brown. Head with small, hemispherically prominent eyes, their diameter equals minimum interocular distance, antennae flat, slender, acutely serrate, apical process of antennomere 3 about half length of its body, further antennomeres similar in shape. Pronotum transverse, with apparent bulge in basal third, almost parallel-sided between bulge and posterior angles, elytra with weak but regular secondary costae and mostly regular, quadrate, small cells.
Distribution
New Guinea, Elelim region.
Etymology
The specific name refers to the type locality.
Remark
Eniclases versicolor Kleine, 1926 from an unspecified locality in New Guinea was studied (Holotype, male, ‘Neuguinea, Coll. Kraatz’ deposited in DEIM). Eniclases versicolor is similar in general appearance, but differs in large male eyes. The female specimen of Eniclases versicolor from the Jayapura district cited by Bocak and Bocakova (1991)[1] might be conspecific with Eniclases variabilis or Eniclases elelimensis and these species might have allopatric distribution.
Original Description
- Bocek, M; Bocak, L; 2016: Species limits in polymorphic mimetic Eniclases net-winged beetles from New Guinean mountains (Coleoptera, Lycidae) ZooKeys, (593): 15-35. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Bocak L, Bocakova M (1991) Revision of the genus Eniclases Waterhouse, 1879 (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Metriorrhynchinae). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 81: 203–226.
