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Cladophorus manokwarensis Bocak 2017, sp. nov.

Description

Cladophorus manokwarensis sp. nov.

(Figs. 12, 26, 42, 65–66)

Type material. Holotype. Male, Indonesia, West Papua prov., Manokwari, Gn. Meja, 200 m (A00393, LMBC).

Diagnosis. C. manokwarensis is characteristic in the brightly yellow pronotum, an extensive black humeral part of elytra, and the brightly yellow posterior part of elytra (Fig. 42). Unlike C. kailakiensis, the extent of the black part of elytra is larger (Figs. 41–42). Additionally, C. manokwarensis has a robust, parallel-sided phallus (Fig. 65). C. humeralis is its sister-species (Fig. 4) and differs in the coloration (Fig. 40), wide antennomere 3 (Fig. 10), and the shape of the male genitalia (Figs. 62, 66).

Description. Male. Body medium-sized, 13.1 mm long, body dark brown to black, pronotum and posterior half part of elytra brightly yellow (Figs. 26, 42), humeral half of elytra black, light and black parts of elytra clearly delimited (Fig. 42). Head small, with relatively small, hemispherically prominent eyes, frontal interocular distance 1.59 times maximum diameter; antennae long, reaching beyond three quarters of elytral length, flabellate, antennomere 3 wide, with lamella 2.15 times longer than stem, lamella attached to apical part of antennomere (Fig. 12). Pronotum transverse, 1.3 times wider than long at midline, lateral margins slightly elevated, frontal margin widely rounded, frontal angles inconspicuous, widely rounded, lateral margins straight to slightly convex, posterior angles almost rectangular, all carinae well-developed (Fig. 26). Elytra flat, slender, subparallel-sided, transverse costae well-developed, dense, regular, elytral areoles slightly transverse (Fig. 42). Phallus robust, parallel-sided, with gradually acuminate apex (Figs. 65–66).

Measurements. BL 13.1 mm, PL 1.88 mm, PW 2.54 mm, WH 1.5 mm, Edist 0.94 mm, Ediam 0.59 mm, LE 10.7 mm, antennomere 3: stem 1.05 mm, lamella 2.25 mm.

Distribution. Western New Guinea, Bird’s Head Peninsula, Manokwari (Fig. 3).

Etymology. The epithet refers to the local name ‘Manokwari’, the type locality of the species.

Notes

Published as part of Bocak, Ladislav, 2017, Species delimitation of colour polymorphic Cladophorus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from New Guinea, pp. 505-522 in Zootaxa 4320 (3) on page 513, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1051951

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LMBC
Family
Lycidae
Genus
Cladophorus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bocak
Species
manokwarensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cladophorus manokwarensis Bocak, 2017