Diplocladus keniae, ., 2022

Diplocladus keniae sp. n.

( Fig. 9, 34-40)

ZooBank:http://zoobank.org/3F49D884-F693-4543-8346-32D97D5F3156

Holotype, ♂. – Kenya - CE, 4.xii.1997, Eastern , Mwingi env. , M. Snížek leg. ( SMNS) .

Paratype. ♀. – Kenya, Eastern , Katutu-Kithioko , 27.xi.1999, M. Snížek leg. ( RGCM) .

Description

Diagnosis. – Diplocladus keniae sp. n. specimens can be identified by the characteristic coloration: head and pronotum are more-or-less red brown, elytra and legs are more-or-less black, a broad, light yellow, transverse fascia is situated behind the middle. Anterior margin of pronotum narrowly bent upwards.

Length. – 11.53-14.75 mm (2 specimens measured).

Head. – Head including eyes wider than pronotal anterior margin, frons and between eyes black, posterior part dark red brown. Especially black part strongly wrinkled; with long, erect, light hairs. Eyes protruding, eye width 0.58-0.78 mm, eye distance 1.08-1.38 mm, index 1.77-1.86. Antennae black, short, stout, not reaching base when extended backwards; A1shortly black-red, A2 shortly longer than one half of A1, A3 longer than A2, slightly dilated inwards, tip with pubescens of white, short hairs, from A4 to A9 increasingly bifurcate, upper part longer than lower part, much broader than long, A11 long, slender, very slightly curved outside, inner side almost straight, broadly pointed; the bifurcate part with dense, light, short pubescence. Clypeus brown, labrum dark brown, mandibles black.

Pronotum. – Longer than wide, widest in middle (l = 3.32-4.40 mm, w = 2.04-2.80 mm, length to width index 1:1.57-1.63), anterior margin of pronotum is narrowly bent upwards, black. Red brown, strongly wrinkled; with long, erect, light, hairs and shorter, erect, black hairs.

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Scutellum . – Small, roundish, dark red brown or brown, densely vested with long, whitish or yellowish, more-or-less depressed hairs, posteriorly directed.

Elytra . – Up to middle subparallel, then slightly dilated, more than twice as long as wide (l = 7.42-9.67 mm, w = 3.12-4.00 mm, length to width index 1: 2.38-2.42). Elytral base near scutellum margined, apices rounded separately. Elytra with a lateral, light yellowish spot shortly behind humerus and a broad light yellowish transverse fascia behind middle, not reaching outer margin and suture, rounded towards suture. Punctation with 10 more-or-less regular rows, row 1 (near suture) not reaching the middle of elytra, the other rows reaching far beyond the yellowish transverse fascia; punctation more-or-less longitudinal, deep, diameter of punctures conspicuously larger than interstices, interstices with very isolated, very small punctation. Up to middle of elytra with long, erect, black hairs, from middle towards apex with light, more-or-less posteriorly directed hairs, apices almost smooth, with very fine microsculpture.

Legs. – Short, stout, more-or-less black, only hind femora basally and in middle dark red brown, tibiae almost straight, all femora wrinkled and vested with long, erect, white hairs, tarsi black, soles light yellowish; soles 1-4 from emarginated to increasingly slightly lobed.

Lower surface. – Head red brown, palpomeres black, prosternum and mesoventrite red brown, metaventrite black, abdominal ventrites more-or-less black. Ventrite 5 posteriorly very slightly emarginated. Whole lower surface covered with more-or-less dense, white, posteriorly directed hairs.

Genitalia. – See Fig. 34-40.

Distribution. – Only known from Kenya.

Etymology. – The specific epithet, keniae , refers to the location, Kenya, where these specimens has been collected.