Procraerus subinfumatus, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Procraerus subinfumatus n. sp.

( Fig. 10, 30, 66, 67)

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Holotype, ♂, Indonesia, W Sumatra, Singalang , III.1991 ( CPG);

Paratypes, 8 ♀ ( CPG, CPR) .

- 1 ♀, same data as Holotype, 1000 m, IV.1991 ;

- 4 ♀, W Sumatra, Mt. Talang , II-IV.1991 ;

- 2 ♀, W Sumatra, Harau Valley , II.1991 ;

- 1 ♀, W Sumatra, Mt Merapi , 1000 m, IV.1991 .

Diagnosi s. – A species of the P. dorsalis -group sensu Schimmel, 1999, allied to P. infumatus (Candèze, 1880) for the general shape and size, it can be separated by the shorter antennae, more convex and densely punctured pronotum, less elongate elytra.

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Fig. 22-43. Antennae.

22. Girardelater nepalensis n. sp. 23. Girardelater riesei n. sp. 24. Girardelater schimmeli n. sp. 25. Procraerus toegoensis n. sp. 26. Procraerus borneoensis n. sp. 27. Procraerus duffetsorum n. sp. 28. Procraerus angulatus n. sp. 29. Procraerus acuminiformis n. sp. 30. Procraerus subinfumatus n. sp. 31. Procraerus javanus n. sp. 32. Procraerus indicus n. sp. 33. Procraerus smetsi n. sp. 34. Procraerus grootaerti n. sp. 35. Procraerus mindanaoensis n. sp. 36. Procraerus sikkimensis n. sp. 37. Xanthopenthes manettii n. sp. 38. Xanthopenthes tamilensis n. sp. 39. Xanthopenthes viklundi n. sp. 40. Xanthopenthes cambodianus n. sp. 41. Xanthopenthes constanti n. sp. 42. Xanthopenthes nigerrimus n. sp. 43. Xanthopenthes lemoulti n. sp.

Description. – Male.

Moderately shiny.

Coloration. – Head, the great part of pronotum, antenna from the fourth article, first and lateral intervals from the sixth of elytra and underbody dark-brown; posterior angles of pronotum and base of propleura, remaining parts of elytra and legs, yellowish, covered with dense, yellowish pubescence.

Head. – Frons convex, flat and slightly impressed before the anterior margin, the latter regularly arcuate and just protruding above the clypeus; punctures strongly umbilicate, contiguous or with shortest intervals. – Antennae exceeding by one article the apices of the posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from the fourth article on; second article sub-cylindrical, third sub-conical, a little longer than the second, taken together, as long as the fourth; fourth-tenth sub-triangular, slender, on average 2.3x longer than wide, longitudinally carinate; last longer, sub-ellipsoidal. (Fig. 30).

Pronotum. – 1.05x wider than long, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, strongly convex; sides regularly tapering from the posterior angles to near the apices; posterior angles long, acuminate, not divergent, unicarinate; carina very near and parallel for nearly all its length to the lateral margins, the latter just visible in the first thirds of its length in a dorsal view; punctuation very coarse and uniformly distributed except before the posterior angles, punctures umbilicate and contiguous on all the surface.

Scutellum . – Strongly declivous, tongue-shaped, longitudinally convex, pointed at apex, punctured.

Elytra. – 2.7x longer than pronotum and 2.7x longer than wide, convex, rather flattened on the disk, sides widest at the middle then very gradually tapering to the apices, the latter very slightly and obliquely truncate; striae well marked and regularly punctured; interstriae, flat to sub-convex, with rough surface.

Aedeagus. – As in the Fig. 10 (length 0.62 mm).

Size. – Length 5.1 mm, width 1.31 mm.

Female. – Very similar to male with a moderate variability in the colours of the integuments, the pronotum can be entirely reddish, the body is more convex, the antennae are shorter not reaching the apices of the posterior angles. – Length 5.3-5.6 mm; width 1.45-1.47 mm.