Girardelater schimmeli, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Girardelater schimmeli n. sp.

( Fig. 3, 24, 57)

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Holotype, ♂, Thailand, Chiang Mai Prov., 7 km S of Doi Chiang (19°48’55”N / 99°34’45”E), 1600 m, 16-18.V.2009, L. Dembický ( CCW). GoogleMaps

Diagnosi s. – A species near G. werneri Schimmel, 1999 for the spaced punctuation on pronotum, it can be separated for the longer antennae and the bicoloured body without a big contrast.

Description. – Male.

Very shiny.

Coloration. – Bicoloured without a great contrast; entirely blackpiceous including antennae, with nearly all the surface of pronotum and prosternum dark red; legs dark-brown; covered with short, moderately dense, blackish pubescence.

Head. – With the eyes wide as the anterior margin of pronotum; frons deeply impressed from the middle to the anterior margin, the latter sub-arcuate, strongly thickened, sub-horizontally protruding above the clypeus; frontal-clypeus space not constricted and with a mid-longitudinal, fine, carina; punctuation very strong with punctures umbilicate with shortest, shiny intervals. – Antennae exceeding by nearly two articles the apices of the posterior angles of pronotum, serrated from the fourth article on; second article sub-cylindrical, long as wide, third sub-conical, just longer than the second; second and third, taken together much more shorter than the fourth (1.4x shorter); fourth and following triangular with the fourth a little longer; fifth-tenth sub-equal in length, gradually slenderer; last longer than the previous, ellipsoidal asymmetrically constricted before the apex (Fig. 24).

Pronotum. – 1.19 wider than long, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, convex, with a very short and shallow mid-longitudinal impression on the basal slope; sides from the middle suddenly narrowing to the apex, distinctly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter long, acute, at the extremities not divergent, with a short but prominent carina directed inside; lateral margins complete and in the first half well apparent in a dorsal view; punctuation moderate; punctures deep, simple or slightly umbilicate, on the disk with variable, very shiny intervals, on average equal to smaller than their intervals, extremely fine at base.

Scutellum . – Strongly declivous, sub-rectangular, ridged at the base, rounded at apex, flat, densely punctured.

Elytra. – 3.3x longer than pronotum and 2.7x longer than wide, convex; sides regularly tapering from the base to the apices, the latter obliquely truncate with a vestige of spine; striae very superficial and punctured, gradually obsolescent and few apparent after the middle; interstriae extremely flat with very fine punctures.

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

Aedeagus. – As in the Fig. 3 (length 1.62 mm).

Size. – Length 15.0 mm; width 3.6 mm.

Female. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The species is dedicated to the Memory of our colleague Rainer Schimmel that established the genus.