Cyriotasiastes rhetenor rhetenor (Newman 1842)

Cyriotasiastes rhetenor rhetenor (Newman 1842) View in CoL

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Material examined: 1 male, Northern Luzon, Ifugao, Aguinaldo , vi.2017, DUBC .

Measurements of the various body parts are as follows: LB ( LH +LP+ LE) = 15.0 mm; LH = 2.0 mm; WH = 2.5 mm; LP = 3.0 mm; WP = 5.0 mm; LE = 10.5 mm; WEH = 5.5 mm.

Redescription. Adult male. Teguments. Head, prothorax, elytra, abdomen, legs, and antennae dark brown to matte black. Head densely covered with fine whitish recumbent pubescence, underside lustrous and glabrous. Genae and margin of lower eye lobes with few long erect black setae, central disc of frons free of long erect setae. Eyes as long as wide, dark brown. Antennae dark brown, more than twice longer than body length, densely covered with very fine whitish recumbent pubescence; scape slightly robust, apex with cicatrix; antennomeres III to V equal in length, the rest of antenommeres shorter and slenderer.

Prothorax. Pronotum wider than long, sparsely punctate at disc; propleuron covered with fine yellowish recumbent pubescence; prosternum densely covered with semi-erect whitish pubescence. Elytra twice longer than wide, widest at humeri, highly pun ctate from base to apical third, finer towards apex. Elytra with three bands of whitish pubescence: thin broken S-shaped band near apical third, thin C-shaped postmedian band that does not reach suture, and a faint band near apex.Apex truncate, margin lined with short semi-erect yellowish setae, with very short marginal spine. Legs dark brown to matte black, covered with fine whitish recumbent pubescence.

Mesosternum, mesepisternum, and metaventrite covered with recumbent pubescence; mesepimeron and metepisternum covered with brownish recumbent pubescence. Metepisternum elongated, triangular, base covered with a small band of whitish pubescence. Ventrites I to V densely covered with whitish or brown pubescence, whitish pubescence concentrated medially. Ventrite I broader and wider than ventrites II to V. Pygidium rounded, covered with semi-erect brownish setae. Male genitalia were not examined as it was in advance state of decomposition when I received the material.

Distribution: Philippines (Luzon: Northern Luzon, Ifugao).