Procraerus abdominalis, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Procraerus abdominalis n. sp.

( Fig. 47, 51, 64)

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Holotype, ♀, Malaysia, Sarawak, Batu Tiban (Tibang Mount), 1700 m, E. Mjöberg ( NHRS).

Diagnosi s. – A species of the P. asper -group sensu Schimmel, 1999, that can be compared with the P. epitrotus (Candèze, 1865) , it can be separated for the strongly umbilicate punctuation of pronotum and the reddish abdominal sternites. ( Fig. 47).

Description. – Female.

Moderately shiny.

Coloration. – Head, pronotum, scutellum, first two elytral and from the sixth to the sides striae, epipleura, prosternum and thorax, blackpiceous; abdomen all reddish; legs yellowish with darkened tarsi; covered with moderate, yellowish pubescence.

Head. – Frons convex, anterior margin simple, shiny, arcuate, in the middle just protruding above the clypeus; punctures strongly umbilicate, with shortest intervals or contiguous. – Antennae mutilated.

Pronotum. – Long as wide, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base, witha short, mid-longitudinal depression on the basal slope; sides sub-parallel, in the anterior third notably tapering, slightly sinuate immediately before the posterior angles, the latter, short, acuminate, just divergent, unicarinate; carina short and slightly diverging by the lateral margins, the latter complete and visible in the first half in a dorsal view; punctuation very dense and uniformly distributed, strongly umbilicate contiguous or with shortest intervals on all the surface ( Fig. 51).

Scutellum . – Shield-shaped, ridged at base, slightly sinuate at sides, rounded at apex, flat, roughly punctured.

Elytra. – 2.97x longer than pronotum 2.58x longer than wide, a little widest than pronotum at base, convex; sides widest at the middle, apices rounded with a very short spine; striae deeply and regularly punctured, interstriae sub-convex, very finely punctured.

Size. – Length 8.75 mm; width 2.37 mm.

Male. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The name is derived because of the abdominal sternites with colour different by the remaining integuments.