Eniclases tikapurensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Eniclases
Name
Eniclases tikapurensis Bocek & Bocak, 2016 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
Holotype. Male (BM0039), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Yiwika, N of Wamena, 2000 m, Nov.–Dec. 1991 (LMBC). Paratypes. 3 males, 2 females (BM0040–44), Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Tikapura village, 2200 m, Nov.–Dec. 1991 (LMBC).
Diagnosis
Eniclases tikapurensis resembles in general appearance Eniclases papuensis Bocak & Bocakova, 1991 from the Panai Lake area approximately 250 km west of Yiwika. Both species are characteristic in pale hue of the yellow upper part (Fig. 9) but differ in the relative size of eyes when Eniclases tikapurensis has much larger eyes (Table 1).
Description
Male. Body length 9.5–11.1 mm, slender (Table 1). Head, antennae, thorax, legs except trochanters and bases of femora bark brown to black, pronotum and elytra except posterior edge pale yellow (Fig. 9). Head with large, hemispherically prominent eyes, their diameter 1.11–1.40 times minimum interocular distance. Antennae serrate, antennomere 3 triangular, with pointed apical process, antennomere 4 parallel-sided in most of its length, its process shorter, shape of other antennomeres similar (Fig. 41). Pronotum transverse, lateral margins with weak bulge in basal third and prominent posterior angles, elytra with weak but well developed, straight secondary costae and regular, mostly quadrate, small elytral cells.
Distribution
New Guinea, Upper Baliem Valley.
Etymology
The specific name refers to the type locality, the village Tikapura, north of Tagime.
Remark
The genetically distant population from Bokondini is a sister to Eniclases tikapurensis, but does not differ in any morphological character. As their delimitation would be based only on mtDNA sequence and further information on nuclear markers and geographical distribution is needed for these two putative cryptic species, we postpone the formal description of the population from Bokondini. The sequenced specimens representing the Bokondini population are designated as Eniclases sp. A. in Fig. 1.
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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