Girardelater nepalensis, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Girardelater nepalensis n. sp.

( Fig. 1, 22, 54)

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Holotype, ♂, Nepal, Palpa Distr. , Tansen, 5-14.VII.2012, Li Jingke ( CPG).

Diagnosi s. – Species near G. porrectus (Fleutiaux, 1918) for the strong punctuation of pronotum but with longer antennae and with a mid-longitudinal, fine carina on clypeus.

Description. – Male.

Moderately shiny.

Coloration. – Entirely blackish with vague reddish shades at the base of pronotum and around the scutellum, antennae and legs ferruginous; covered with dense, recumbent, semierect at the sides of body, erect on the antennal articles, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Head. – Eyes wide as the anterior margin of pronotum. – Frons flat from the vertex to the apex of the eyes with very thickened anterior margin sub-horizontally protruding above the clypeus. – Frontal-clypeus space not constricted and with a mid-longitudinal, fine, carina. – Punctuation very strong with punctures umbilicate and contiguous. – Antennae extending by two articles the apices of posterior angles of pronotum serrated from the fourth article on; second article sub-cylindrical, just shorter than the third sub-conical; second and third taken together clearly shorter than the fourth (1.28x shorter); fourth-tenth triangular with the fourth longer than the following, last a little longer, sub-ellipsoidal. (Fig. 22).

Pronotum. – 1.19x wider than long, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, convex, rather flat on the central part of the disk, sides from the middle suddenly narrowing to the apex, distinctly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter long, acute, divergent, with a short but prominent carina directed inside. – Lateral margins complete and in the first half well apparent in a dorsal view. – Punctuation strong and uniformly distributed on all the surface; punctures umbilicate, on the central disk with shortest intervals, sub-ovate giving to the surface a sub-striate appearance, towards the sides round, umbilicate and contiguous at the extremities.

Scutellum . – Strongly declivous, sub-rectangular, ridged at the base, slightly convex, densely and strongly punctured.

Elytra. – 3.1x longer than pronotum and 2.55x longer than wide, convex. – Sides sub-parallel from the base to the middle then gradually tapering to the apices.

Prosternal process. – Immediately bent behind the procoxal cavities, cuneiform, not emarginate at apex.

Aedeagus. – As in the Fig. 1 (length 1.875 mm).

Size. – Length 15.5 mm; width 4.0 mm.

Female. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The name is derived from Nepal where the species was collected.