Coleocydnus sicardi, Lis, 2001

Coleocydnus sicardi n. sp.

(Figs 3, 8-9)

DIAGNOSIS This new species is similar to C. madagascariensis in its general outline and body size, but can be easily separated from the latter by the convex costa, separated from exocorium in its basal two thirds (costa of C. madagascariensis is flattened and separated from exocorium only in its basal third). Moreover, the corium of C. sicardi bears coarse large punctures of the same size, whereas the corium of C. madagascariensis has punctures of different sizes, from very small and shallow to large and coarse.

DESCRIPTION

Body (Fig. 3) castaneous to piceous, 6.24-6.93 mm in length, 3.56-4.16 mm in width.

Head impunctate or with a few tiny, hardly visible punctures; clypeus as long as paraclypei, entirely free, without a pair of submarginal setigerous punctures; each paraclypeus with a submarginal row of 3 setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae; eyes moderately large, pale brown to reddish-brown, ocular index 3.20- 3.80; antennae yellowish-brown to dark brown, 3 rd antennal segment 1.00-1.14 times longer than the 2 nd segment; rostrum pale brown to dark brown, extending beyond mid coxae.

Pronotum subquadrate, its disc almost impunctate, bearing only a few irregularly scattered medium-sized punctures; each lateral margin with a submarginal row of 5 setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setae. Propleuron alutaceous, wrinkled on its anterior convexity, and bearing numerous coarse punctures in the depression and the posterior convexity.

Scutellum very long, strongly narrowed apically, its disc convex, impunctate except for a basal row of small punctures and lateral rows of large, deep, coarse punctures.

Corium coarsely punctate with large, deep punctures, its basal and medial part sparsely punctate or impunctate (Fig. 3); clavo-corial suture absent, exocorium with puncturation denser than that of remaining parts of corium; costa convex, separated from exocorium in its basal two thirds, and bearing a single (sporadically two) setigerous puncture; membrane brown, small, triangular, reaching or almost reaching the tip of abdomen.

Legs brown to dark brown, tarsi yellowish-brown to pale brown, tibial spines castaneous to piceous.

Abdominal sterna conspicuously coarsely punctate laterally. Male paramere as in Fig. 8; aedeagus with median carina ventrally. Female spermatheca with small proximal flange, and slightly dilated pump region (Fig. 9).

MATERIAL EXAMINED Holotype male: [MADAGASCAR]: Madagascar, Coll. SICARD, 1930, Muséum Paris ( MNHN). Paratypes: 2 males 2 females, the same data as the holotype ( MNHN, DBUO) ; 1 female, Madagascar Est, Régions de Tamatave, Andevorante et Beforona , Dr G. BOUET, 1905, Muséum Paris ( MNHN) .

ETYMOLOGY

The species is named after the collecter of the holotype specimen.