Cleptometopus negrosensis, Barševskis & Torrejos, 2024

Cleptometopus negrosensis sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype: Male. Philippines, Negros isl. , / Mt. Canla-on, 900 m., / 02.2016, / local collector leg.

< handwritten> // HOLOTYPUS: / Cleptometopus / negrosensis sp. nov. / A. Barševskis Ch. Torrejos / descr. 2024. <red label, handwritten>. Deposited in DUBC .

Paratype: Female. Philippines, Negros isl. , / Mt. Canla-on, 900 m., / 02.2016, / local collector leg. <handwritten> // PARATYPUS: / Cleptometopus / negrosensis sp. nov. / A. Barševskis Ch. Torrejos descr., / 2024. <red label, handwritten>. Damaged specimen. Deposited in DUBC .

General distribution: Philippines: Negros Island.

Description. Body elongate, very narrow, black, slightly lustrous, surface unicolor black, only pronotum basally with two yellow elongated spots. Body length: 12.5 mm, maximal width of elytra: 2.4 mm.

Head black, flat, narrow, with almost parallel sides, with slightly convex eyes. Cheeks not extended, without pubescence, with very coarse punctures and wrinkles. Surface of head without pubescence and in coarse punctation. Head without longitudinal middle line, except basal portion of head behind antennae as well as a thin very fine elongated line from the base of the antennae to the pronotum. Labrum brown, shiny, with sparse pubescence and coarse punctures. Clypeus brown, narrow, transverse, shiny. Mandibles brown, with darkened apical portions, shiny, with acute apices, with very fine punctures in basal part. Antennae darkbrown, very long, more than twice as long as the body, covered with very fine pubescence; basal antennomere cylindric, black, with sparse fine punctures and pubescence and with row of bristles.

Pronotum almost sub-cylindrical, black, with coarse dense punctures. Lateral sides of pronotal disc with two elongated yellow spots. Basal portion of pronotum without acute angles. Frontal and basal portions of pronotum slightly neck-shaped. Scutellum small, slightlu rised, rounded apically, covered with yellow-grey pubescence. Pars stridens not visible, because it is under the posterior edge of the pronotum.

Elytra black, with coarse, slightly impressed punctures in rows, especially in basal portion. Each elytron with slightly extended shoulders and impressed suturae in basal portion. Dorsal part of elytra unicolor black. Apical part of elytra with very fine punctures. Each elytron with large sharp extended projection. Ventral surface of body black, with very coarse punctures. Legs relatively short, dark brown, slightly shiny. Inner sides of tibia with fine yellow pubescence. Tarsomeres dark brown, covered by fine pubescence.

Differential diagnosis. The new species differs from Cleptometopus camuripes Newman, 1842 by a different pattern on the elytra: dorsal surface of elytra of new species unicolor black, with more coarser punctures extending practically to apex, surface of pronotum and elytra without pubescence, apex of each elytron with large sharp extended projection. Pronotum in basal part laterally with two short, slightly elongated yellow spots. C. camuripes dorsal surface of elytra in the middle part with four short yellow lines, shiny, more lustrous, with less coarse punctation not extending to apex but becoming fine well before apex, surface of pronotum and elytra with distinct pale and fine pubescence, apical portion of each elytron with shorter and less sharp extension. Pronotum and head are with elongated not interrupted longitudinal band of yellow pubescence.

New species differs from Cleptometopus mindanaonis Breuning, 1940 by black not greenish surface, more coarse punctures and withouth pale pubescence on dorsal and ventral sides of body and more sharp and long extensions at apex of elytra.

193 Etymology. Toponym. This species is named after the locality of the species in Negros Island ( Philippines) [Negros - negrosensis ].