Sadoletus valdezi Bergroth, 1918

2. Sadoletus valdezi Bergroth, 1918 View in CoL

(Figs. 5–6)

Sadoletus valdezi Bergroth, 1918: 107 View in CoL (original description); Slater (1964: 776) (catalogue, distribution). Sadoletus valdezi: Ban & Ishikawa, 2013 View in CoL : 201 View Cited Treatment (redescription). Misidentification, see below.

Measurements. [ Lectotype ♂ / Paralectotype ♀]. Body length 3.81 / 4.41; maximum width across hemelytra 1.26 / 1.54; head length 0.46 / 0 48, head width across eyes 0.94 / 1.03; length of rostral segments 0.37 / 0.48, 0.43 / 0.48, 0.30 / 0.46, 0.34 / missing; mesal pronotal length 0.85 / 0.87; anterior pronotal lobe length 0.37 / 0.28; posterior pronotal lobe length 0.48 / 0.59; anterior pronotal width 0.85 / 0.94; posterior pronotal width 1.26 / 1.49; mesal scutellar length 0.73 / 0.87; basal scutellar width 0.71 / 0.87; hemelytral length 2.56 / 3.12. Lectotype: left antennal segment IV missing; paralectotype: left antenna missing; right antenna missing except segment I.

Types examined. LECTOTYPE (Fig. 5), male, Mt. Banahao \ P. I. Baker \\ Sadoletus \ valdezi Berg. [Bergroth’s handwriting] \\ Mus. Hels.\ N: o 3538 \\ Mus. Zool. H: fors \ Spec. typ. No 11280 (hw) \ Sadoletus \ valdezi Bergr. (hw) \\ Photographed \ 2015 \ Pekka Malinen \\ http://id. luomus. fi/GL.4288 (MZH); designated here. PARALECTOTYPE ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ), female, Mt Makiling \ Luzon, Baker \\ Sadoletus \ valdezi Bergr. [Bergroth’s handwriting] \\ Mus. Hels.\ N: o 3537 \\ Mus. Zool. H: fors \ Spec. typ. No 11282 (hw) \ Sadoletus \ valdezi Bergr. (hw) \\ Photographed \ 2015 \ Pekka Malinen \\ http://id. luomus. fi/GL.4289 (MZH); designated here.

Distribution. Philippines.

Remarks. Ban & Ishikawa (2013) redescribed this species, S. valdezi , without resorting to the examination of the types. During the present study two type specimens ( lectotype male and paralectotype female, designation here) of S. valdezi borrowed from MZH were examined. These specimens did not match the redescription provided by Ban & Ishikawa thereby alluding that this was a case of misidentification. The species that was considered S. valdezi by Ban & Ishikawa is indeed an entirely different and undescribed species, that is described herein as S. planus sp. nov. below.

S. valdezi is similar to S. validus , but differs from the latter in the following combination of characters: female anterior pronotal lobe: posterior lobe 1:2 (vs. 1: 1.5 in S. validus ) ( Figs. 1a View FIGURE 1 ; 6a View FIGURE 6 ); tibiae without any annulations (vs. with two dark annulations); posterior margin of sternite VI straight (vs. weakly convex at middle) ( Figs. 4f View FIGURE 4 ; 6c View FIGURE 6 ); middle margin of two halves of sternite VII distinctly curved laterally and overlapped (slightly overlapped) ( Fig. 6c View FIGURE 6 ); the shapes of paramere and median projection of pygophore are also different ( Figs. 1e View FIGURE 1 ; 5c).