Phloiocopus bimaculatus, ., 2024

Phloiocopus bimaculatus sp. n.

( Fig. 1- 9)

ZooBank:https://zoobank.org/ FA865A8B-7FC8-4775-820B-40970EAC4413

Holotype, ♂. – Somaliland , 22.-23.viii.2018, Daallo forest - base camp, 10°45'36" N - 47°18'12" E, ca. 2180 m, P. Kabátek lgt. ( RGCM). GoogleMaps

Paratypes, 1 ♀ – same label data ( LDCB) .

Description

Length. – 9.0 (♂) - 10.3 mm (♀) (2 specimens measured).

Head. – Large, parallel, very slightly wider than pronotal anterior margin, red brown, glossy, coarsely and deeply wrinkled. – Eyes protruding, coarsely facetted, eye emargination in the middle, broad, roundish, first antennomere (A1) in a distinct distance from inner part of eye emargination; margined, margin connected with antennal ridge, this antennal ridge is connected with the upper and inner eye margin; eye width 0.56-0.60 mm, eye distance 1.20-1.36 mm. – Labrum small, deeply bilobed. – Posterior part of clypeus long, transverse, smooth, with fine, diffuse punctation, very slightly and broadly emarginate; anterior part of clypeus small, slightly covering labrum. – Terminal labial and maxillary palpomeres securiform. – Mandibles stout, apical dens short, stout, medial dens stout, roundish. – Antennae red brown, long, reaching middle of pronotum when extended backwards, antennal groove long, wide, slightly curved; A1 strongly curved inwards, A2 – A7 cylindrical, more or less thick, A3 slightly longer than A2, A4 shorter than A3, becoming shorter until A8, A9 regularly dilated, A10 more dilated towards inner side, A11 very slightly curved, slender, in female longer than A10+A9, in male more or less as long as A7 – A10 together; A1 with long, pale setae, the rest of antennomeres only with short, pale setae.

Justin S. Bartlett (Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia)

Pronotum. – More-or-less goblet-shaped (cupuliform), as long as wide, apical and basal margin straight, very slightly dilated anteriorly, constricted basally (l = 2.48-2.80 mm, w = 2.28-2.72 mm, length to width index 1:1.056), pronotal collar narrow; anterior transverse depression not really visible; anteriorly with scarce but conspicuous punctation, with a smooth spot on both sides of the middle, then coarsely and deeply wrinkled.

Scutellum . – Small, transversely oval, dark red-brown, with coarse punctation.

Elytra. – Short, stout, twice as long as wide (l = 5.17-6.33 mm, w = 2.52-3.36 mm, width to length index 1: 1.965), broadly dilated towards apex, elytral base narrow, more narrow than mid-pronotal width. – Apices broadly rounded. – Basal third red brown, in the middle with a slightly narrower, black, transverse fascia, then dark brown, behind the black transverse fasica with a large, white, transversely-oval spot, reaching the side margin, but not the suture. – Elytral base not margined,the inner rows of punctation (near suture) more or less regular, then towards side margins increasingly irregular, conspicuous and deep; in basal part rasp-like; diameter of punctation mostly larger than interstices, intervals with microsculpture. – Punctation becomingmoreflattowardsthewhite transversely-oval spot, apex almost smooth; with long, erect (mostly slightly directed backwards) setae.Without hind wings.

Legs. – Large, stout, especially profemora; red brown, with long, pale, dense, erect setae; tibiae slightly curved, with carina. Tarsal sole formula 3-3-3, from T2 – T4 increasingly deeply incised, T1 very slender, but also with very fine setae. – Tibial spur formula 1-2-2. Claws simple, stout, between with a single-setose empodium.

Lower surface. – Gula apically convergent, base broadly rounded, not very conspicuously margined, with small, separated pads in the middle. – Lacinia with a small, but distinct laterolacinia. – Prosternal length much smaller than diameter of coxa. – Prosternal process short, stout, dilated distally. – Hypomeron short, pointed, coxal cavities broadly open. – Anterior mesoventral process lip-shaped, apically sinuate, open in the middle.

Genitalia. – See Fig. 3 -9.

Distribution. – Somalia.

Etymology. – The specific epithet, bimaculatus , a Latin adjective, refers to the white maculae on the elytra.