Endybauna rapicara Martins & Galileo, 1991

Endybauna rapicara Martins & Galileo, 1991 View in CoL

( Figs 110–114 View FIGURES 110–114 )

Endybauna rapicara Martins & Galileo, 1991: 817 View in CoL . Remarks. Endybauna rapicara View in CoL was described based on a male and female from the Ecuadorian province of Entre Rios (Quevedo and Pichilingue). According to the original description (translated): “Female. General coloration yellow orange. Sides of the head and prothorax, mesepimera, mesanepisterna, ventral surface of metathorax, abdomen, and hind legs brownish. Antennae dark brown; basal two-thirds of antennomere IV and the base of the following antennomeres yellowish. Frons, occiput, and a broad central area of the pronotum orange.” Based on the photograph of the holotype female (see photograph on Bezark 2025 and in Martins & Galileo 1991), at least the meso- and metafemora are dark brown not brownish. In the description of the male paratype, no chromatic difference was mentioned. However, all legs in the paratype male ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 9–14 ) are orangish and the scape, pedicel, and antennomere III are light brown. Furthermore, the yellowish oblique pubescent band on sides of the vertex is absent between the upper eye lobes in the paratype, while they follow toward the area between the antennal tubercles in the holotype.

We have examined three additional specimens of this species (with very similar coloration, one depicted in Figs 110–113 View FIGURES 110–114 ), which show more extreme chromatic variation, but without any other morphological differences: vertex blackish from anterior margin of upper eye lobes, central area of the pronotum blackish, posterior half of elytra blackish; forelegs dark brown, except basal region of the femora; middle and hind legs entirely dark brown. Additionally, it has the light pubescent bands of the vertex as in the paratype male, but the elytral apex is narrower than the length of the antennomere XI , while in the paratype it is as long as the length of the antennomere XI .

Although this second known male is from a place in the Andean ecosystem (see introduction), and the holotype and paratype are from the Coastal ecosystem, the three localities are located west of the Andean Mountains .

Material examined. ECUADOR, Loja ( new province record): Vicinity of Macará , 700 m, at UV light, 20–24 Feb 2024, J. Vlasak leg. ( 3 males, JVCO) .