Calcaeron baluensis sp. nov.

(Figs. 53–54)

Description

Male. Dark brown. Elytral costae and suture basally and trochanter­femoral joints testaceous.

Head feebly grooved behind antennal prominence. Eyes relatively large (interocular distance about twice as long as the radius). Ultimate joint of maxillary palpi about 3 times longer than palpomere 3. Antennae slightly reaching over elytral middle, with antennomere 3 and following antennomeres subequal in length to scape.

Pronotum elongate, 1.25 times longer than wide, anterior half roughly punctured, with conspicuous median carina; lateral margins parallel­sided, with hind angles acute and moderately produced latero­posteriorly. Scutellum square, parallel­sided, rounded and finely emarginate at apex.

Elytra long, 3.9 times longer than wide humerally, almost parallel­sided, interstices with 3 to 4 rows of irregular punctures. Dense pubescence short and decumbent.

Metatrochanters with blunt posterior angles.

Aedeagus with widened median lobe and relatively short narrow inner sac (Figs. 53– 54).

Length: 5.2 mm. Width (humerally): 1.2 mm.

Female. Unknown.

Etymology

Named after the type locality, Kinabalu, in Sabah, East Malaysia.