Platerodrilus wongi
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Lycidae
Genus: Platerodrilus
Name
Platerodrilus wongi Masek & Bocak, 2014 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
Holotype. Male (LMBC), Sumatra Utara, Brastagi, Gn. Sibayak, 19–23. Feb. 1998, 700–2000 m.
Diagnosis
Platerodrilus wongi is a single species of the Platerodrilus paradoxus group occurring in Sumatra. It resembles Platerodrilus curtus from the Philippines in the uniformly yellow elytra, but has relatively shorter parameres (Figs 44–45).
Description
Body brown, head, pronotum, mesoscutellum and elytra yellow (Fig. 5). Head small, with eyes is slightly wider than frontal margin of pronotum, antennal tubercles deeply separated. Eyes hemispherically prominent, frontal interocular distance 2.4 times eye diameter. Antennae slender, compressed, reaching two thirds of elytra length, antennomere 3 1.1 times antennomere 2. Head and antennae covered with short dense pubescence. Pronotum transverse, 1.6 wider than length at midline. Anterior margin only slightly projected, anterior angles well marked, lateral margins almost straight, posterior margin shallowly bisinuate (Fig. 28). Elytra parallel-sided, with inconspicuous carinae. Elytra 3.0 times longer than width at humeri, elytra widest in apical sixth. Legs compressed, densely pubescent. Male genitalia with laterally compressed, slightly curved phallus with bulbous tip, parameres stout, long, with hooked tip, apical half of ventral edge serrated, phallobase wide, deeply emarginate (Figs 44–45).
Measurements
BL 7.4 mm, PL 1.0 mm, PW 1.6 mm, HW 1.9 mm, Edist 0.91 mm, Ediam 0.38 mm.
Distribution
Indonesia: Northern Sumatra.
Etymology
The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Alvin T. C. Wong.
Original Description
- Masek, M; Bocak, L; 2014: The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys, 426: 29-63. doi
