Galerita rufofemorata Fedorenko, 2025

3. Galerita rufofemorata Fedorenko , sp.n.

Figs 12 View Figs 10–12 , 36–37 View Figs 32–43 , 54 View Figs 44–65 , 84–86 View Figs 84–89 .

MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ ( ZMMU), with label: ‘ Vietnam, Quang Nam Prov. [ince]/ Nam Gian [g] Distr [ict].,/ Song Thanh Nat [io]n[al]. Park ,/ 15°33′48″N 107°23′22″E / h = 1050 m, 23.IV–11. V./ leg. D. Fedorenko 2019’. Paratypes ( SIEE): 2♂♂, 3♀♀, with same labels; ♀, same data except ‘… / 15°33′19″N 103°23′29″E / h~ 1070 m, …’. — Aedeagus examined in three males, including two paratypes with everted and inflated internal sac GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. Very similar to G. batesi in body appearance. Very few distinctive features are as follows: body apterous; elytra more diverging apicad; both head and genae longer, HL/HW 1.14–1.18 (vs. 1.09–1.13), GL/OL 1.27–1.43 (vs.1.04–1.21); head narrower, PW/HW 1.23–1.30 (vs. 1.14–1.25); pronotum more sinuate on sides in front of basal angles and thence more cordate, with base narrower, PB/PA 1.27–1.45 (vs. 1.53–1.57).

DESCRIPTION.BL 23.7–26 mm. Body ( Fig. 12 View Figs 10–12 ) black, femora reddish-yellow but black apices; antennae very dark brown, with extreme base of scape and sometimes also antennae toward apices reddish. Dorsum rather dull due to coarse elytral microsculpture, moderate and confluent punctation over pronotum, coarse and almost confluent punctation on basal 1/2 head, combined with distinct meshed microsculpture, more or less isodiametric on head, moderately transverse to wide on pronotal disc, coarse isodiametric to granulate along sides of the latter. Head with frontal carina smooth and glabrous, more shiny before than behind due to microsculpture more superficial anteriorly.

Head mostly subquadrate due to genae more abruptly curved closer to neck than before. Smooth and glabrous frontal carina mostly almost reaching the level of posterior margin of eye, while being vague there, i.e., flattened, sparsely punctate and more or less merged into a round, shallow or very shallow, depression on vertex.

Pronotum broadest a third to two fifths from apex, densely rugose-punctate in basal sixth, with disc convex and lateral two fifths very slightly to almost indistinctly explanate in basal three quarters, more explanate and widely yet shallowly grooved outside basolateral foveae due to reflexed lateral bead slightly broadened there. Sides rather deeply sinuate and slightly to distinctly diverging toward base. Base subtruncate, with angles straight to acute and blunt. Apex mostly rather deeply sinuate between apically rounded angles, sinuation even to nearly straight at middle. Median line fine, slightly impressed, obliterate both basally and apically. Basolateral foveae shallow and short, traceable in basal fifth only, merging into explanation of lateral margin before.

Elytra oviform, broadest about two fifths from apex, very slightly impressed between suture and ridge 9 in basal third. Apices obliquely truncate, angulate combined, each straight or gently sinuate just inside outer angles, these being obtuse and rounded or subangulate, respectively; sutural angle slightly acute, sharp or slightly blunted. Pubescence short and sparse, arranged in a single row on each side of elytral ridge, becoming gradually denser from two rows medially to three rows basally on the outside of ridge 8. Interval 3 with three discal setae.

Aedeagus ( Figs 36–37 View Figs 32–43 , 54 View Figs 44–65 , 84–86 View Figs 84–89 ): median lobe shiny ventrally, with no ventromedial groove; left paramere wide, triangular and rounded in apical third. Internal sac set at an obtuse angle with median lobe in dorsal view, bent subequally ventrad and laterad, with a single, left, basal bulb that bears the only left lateral sclerite at apex; this sclerite being long and curved (the illustrated specimen has an additional, minute, lateral sclerite just distal to this bulb). 10–11 medial sclerites present, basal one being long.

DISTRIBUTION. This species is only known from the type locality.

NAME. Refers to the bicoloured legs of this species.

HABITATS AND HABITS. All the specimens were hand collected at night, running on the ground in a monsoon forest.