Monobazus rubrostriatus, VIRAKTAMATH & WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025

Monobazus rubrostriatus sp. nov.

Figs 5C–F View FIGURES 5 , 9 View FIGURES 9 RS, 42A–I

Diagnosis. This species can be recognized from other species of Monobazus by the following combination of characters: ochraceous with longitudinal orange stripe on either side of median line traversing crown, pronotum and exposed mesonotum; male pygofer produced into an attenuated posterodorsally directed process; aedeagus with ventral process arising slightly distad of midlength of shaft and exceeding shaft, curved in line with shaft.

Description. Ochraceous, with longitudinal orange stripe on either side of median line traversing crown, pronotum and exposed mesonotum. Face ochraceous, area surrounding bases of antennae brown. Forewing with apices of claval veins, clavus and a few spots on corium dark brown.

Head wider than pronotum. Crown conically rounded, 0.9–1.0× as long as inter ocular distance. Pronotum about twice as wide as long and slightly shorter than exposed mesonotum.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with posterior margin apparently rounded but mesally curved and produced posterodorsally into an attenuated process, 1.25× as long as wide at base in lateral view. Subgenital plate with macrosetae in distal 0.66, hair-like setae in distal half, 5× as long as wide at base. Style with slender, slightly curved apophysis. Connective with stem longer than arms. Aedeagal shaft directed dorsally in basal 0.25, slightly narrowed distally with ventral process arising slightly distad of midlength, curved in line with shaft and exceeding it.

Measurements. Male 3.9–4.0 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes and 1.0 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Female 4.1 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes and 1.0 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Karnataka: Mudigere 970m, 2.vi1978, C.A. Viraktamath ( UASB) . PARATYPES: INDIA: Karnataka: 1♂, Mudigere , light trap, 29.v.2005, Shobharani, M .; 1 ♀, same data except 3.vi.1978, H.S. Krishnamurthy ; 1♂, 1♀, Bandipur, Mysore , 18.i.1985, S. Viraktamath ; 1 ♂, Sulikere (near Bangalore ), 30.xi.1976, C.A. Viraktamath ; 1♂, 1♀, Jog Falls , 534m, 18.vi.1976, C.A. Viraktamath ; 1 ♂, Biligiris [Biligiri Rangana Hills], 1925m, 13.viii.1977, C.A. Viraktamath ; Kerala: Nelliempathy , 1110m, 20.v.2010, A.N. Reddy ( NBAIR, UASB) .

Etymology. The specific epithet is a combination of the Latin adjective ruber, -rubra, rubrum (=red) and of the Latin participle striatus, -a, -um (= striate, streaked, striped), referring to the reddish orange stripes traversing the head and thorax.

Remarks. See Remarks under M. deccanensis .