Monobazus rotundus, VIRAKTAMATH & WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025

Monobazus rotundus sp. nov.

Figs 5 View FIGURES 5 AB, 9Q, 41A–I

Diagnosis. M. rotundus resembles M. confuscus in coloration but differs in the following combination of characters: crown almost as long as interocular distance, anteriorly conically rounded; male pygofer as long as wide in lateral view; posterior margin appears rounded, but mesally curved with hook-like stout apical process; aedeagus with ventral process arising in basal 0.25 length of shaft and exceeding shaft apex.

Description. Coloration as in M.confuscus ,face dark reddish brown with pale markings laterally on frontoclypeus, basal region of lora and lateral margins of genae.

Head wider than pronotum. Crown conically rounded, 0.9× as long as interocular distance.

Male genitalia. Pygofer about as long as wide in lateral view, posterior margin rounded and mesally curved, ventral process with indication of arising at basiventral region crossing pygofer diagonally with hook-like stout process exceeding posterior margin. Subgenital plate with macrosetae in distal half and also with hair-like setae, about 5.5× as long as wide basally. Aedeagus with shaft slightly tapered distally, curved dorsally at basal 0.33, ventral medial process arising at basal 0.25 length of shaft and exceeding shaft.

Measurements. Male 4.0– 4.1 mm long, 1.0 mm wide across eyes and 0.9 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, NEPAL: nr. Bitganj , Lothat, 450ft, 9.ix.1967, Can. Nepal Exped. ( CNC) . Paratype ♂, NEPAL: nr Simra , Adhabar, 600ft, 27.viii.1967, Can. Nepal. Exp. ( CNC) .

Etymology. The species epithet is the Latin adjective rotundus, -a, -um (=round, circular, rotund, rounded), referring to the rounded posterior margin of the male pygofer.

Remarks. The male holotype has the apex of the aedeagal process mutilated and the male paratype has the pygofer missing.