Procraerus mindanaoensis, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Procraerus mindanaoensis n. sp.

( Fig. 14, 35, 72)

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Holotype, ♂, Philippines, Mindanao, South Cotabato prov., Lake Sebu, 124°42’E, 6°13’N, 700 m, 26.I.1998, P. Lays ( IRSNB). GoogleMaps

Diagnosi s. – A species of the P.asper -group sensu Schimmel, 1999 comparable with P. gracilicornis Schimmel, 1999 too from Mindanao but larger, with shorter antennae and slenderer paramera in aedeagus.

Description. – Male.

Moderately shiny.

Coloration. – Head, pronotum, scutellum and underbody darker, brown-ferruginous; elytra, antennae and legs lighter, yellow-ferruginous; covered with fine, yellowish pubescence.

Head. – Frons flat, anterior margin in the middle prolonged to nearly touching the clypeus; clypeal space obsolete in the middle; punctures strong, umbilicate, contiguous. – Antennae exceedingby one article the apices of the posterior angles of pronotum, serrated from the fourth article on; second article sub-cylindrical, third sub-conical, subequal in length, taken together 1.31x shorter thanthe fourth; fourth-tenth triangular gradually slenderer witha vestige of mid-longitudinal carina, last sub-ellipsoidal. (Fig. 35).

Pronotum. – 1.09x longer than wide, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, convex, with a very shallow and short mid-longitudinal depression in the basal slope; sides sub-parallel from behind the middle to nearly the anterior margin, slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter, acuminate, slightly divergent, unicarinate; carina short, very fine, just visible, lateral margin complete and only in the first third of its length visible in a dorsal view; punctuation uniformly distributed on all the surface, very dense; punctures superficial, clearly umbilicate with shortest, shiny intervals to contiguous.

Scutellum . – Sub-rectangular, flat, coarsely punctured.

Elytra. – 2.7x longer than the pronotum and 2.8x longer than wide, convex; rather flattened on the disk; sides sub-parallel from the base to behind the middle then gradually tapering to the apices, the latter entire with a vestige of spine; striae well distinct and punctured; interstriae flat and densely punctured.

Prosternal process. – Cuneiform, immediately bent behind the procoxal cavities.

Aedeagus. – As in the Fig. 14 (length 1.52 mm).

Size. – Length 11.2 mm, width 2.62 mm.

Female. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The name is derived from Mindanao Island where the species was collected.