Procraerus indicus, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Procraerus indicus n. sp.

(Fig. 32, 44, 69)

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Holotype, ♀, India, Tamil Nadu, Ainamalai Hills, Kalamparai, 4200 Fts , V.1980 ( CPG).

Diagnosi s. – We can compare this species of the P. babai -group sensu Schimmel, 1999 with P. coomani (Fleutiaux, 1940) from Vietnam and Thailand but it is immediately separated for the longer pronotum with opaque surface.

Description. – Female.

Moderately shiny only on the head and elytra;

Coloration. – Head and nearly all the pronotum dark brown; base of pronotum, elytra, underbody, antennae and legs yellowish; covered with dense, recumbent yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Head. – Frons convex, anterior margin simple, arcuate, in the middle touching the clypeus, frons-clypeal furrow constricted in the middle; punctures umbilicate, contiguous or with shortest, shiny intervals. – Antennae not reaching for about one article the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, slightly serrated from the fourth article on; second article sub-cylindrical, third sub-conical, the second just shorter than the third, taken together, as long as the fourth; fourth-tenth sub-triangular, slender, on average 2.5x longer than wide, last as long as the previous, sub-ellipsoidal (Fig. 32).

Pronotum. – 1.12x longer than wide, widest at the middle and at the apices of posterior angles, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; sides from the middle very gradually tapering to the apices, sub-parallel to the posterior angles, the latter long, acuminate, not divergent, unicarinate; carina sharp, clearly diverging from the lateral margins and directed inwards;lateral margins complete and in the first third visible in a dorsal view; punctuation uniformly distributed, punctures round, slightly umbilicate with intervals on average equal to their diameters and strongly shagreened so that the surface appears opaque.

Scutellum . – Strongly declivous, tongue shaped, slightly convex with shagreened surface.

Elytra. – 2.7x longer than pronotum and 2.9x longer than wide, convex; sides sub-parallel from the base to the middle then gradually tapering to the apices, the latter very slightly and obliquely directed to the suture with a vestige of spine.

Last visible abdominal sternite. – Very slightly emarginate at apex.

( Fig. 44).

Size. – Length 9.0 mm, width 2.06 mm.

Male. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The name is derived from India, the state where the species was collected.