Aferos (s. str.) endroedyi

Kazantsev, Sergey V., 2005, Review of Aferos Kazantsev (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with a note on Staepteron cyanoxanthum (Bourgeois), Zootaxa 830, pp. 1-23 : 7-9

Aferos (s. str.) endroedyi sp. n. ( Figs. 17–18 )

Description

Male. Dark brown. Pronotum rufous.

Head with shallow roundish impression and inconspicuous longitudinal median groove behind antennal prominence. Antennal sockets separated by approximately half their transverse diameter. Eyes small (interocular distance nearly 5 times as long as the radius). Labrum transverse, with straight margin. Labial and maxillary palpi slender, with ultimate joints almost parallel­sided and flattened distally. Antennae attaining to about elytral middle, with antennomeres 3–11 slightly flattened and almost parallel­sided; antennomere 3 2.4 times longer than antennomere 2 and about 1.25 times shorter than antennomere 4; antennal pubescence sparse and decumbent.

Pronotum slightly (1.2 times) wider than long, with conspicuous median areola and relatively inconspicuous transverse carinae, more prominent near lateral margins; anterior margin slightly convex; lateral margins almost parallel­sided, slightly incised posteriorly, with hind angles acute. Scutellum elongate, narrowing distally and rounded at apex.

Elytra long, 3.2 times longer than wide at humeri and 4.2 times longer than pronotum, almost parallel­sided, with 4 equally developed primary costae; interstices with double rows of relatively irregular elongate cells. Decumbent and sparse pubescence distributed along longitudinal costae.

Legs slender, with conspicuously curved tibiae; metacoxae produced posteriorly into acute spines; tarsomeres 1–4 with plantar pads.

Aedeagus with robust parameres and relatively short median lobe ( Figs. 17–18 ).

Length: 5.5–6.2 mm. Width (humerally): 1.3–1.6 mm.

Female. Similar to male, but antennae shorter and eyes smaller.

Type material

Holotype male: S. Afr., N Transvaal, Soutpansbg Hanglip , 23 º02' S – 29 º 47 ' E, grass netting, 14.III. 1973, Endrödy­Younga leg. ( TMNH); paratypes, male and female, same label ( TMNH and ICM); paratypes, 2 males and female, " Louis Trichardt Hanglip Forestry, 23–24.IV. 1956, v. Son & Vari " ( TMNH and ICM) .

Diagnosis

A. endroedyi sp. n. differs from the similarly coloured Aferos species by the details of the elongate and slightly flattened dorso­ventrally aedeagus ( Figs. 17–18 ).

Etymology

Named after Dr. Endrödy­Younga who collected the type series.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 21. Details of Aferos spp. 17 — A. (s. str.) endroedyi sp. n., aedeagus, ventrally; 18 — same, laterally; 19 — A. (s. str.) natalensis sp. n., habitus; 19 a — male metatrochanter with metafemur; 20 — same, aedeagus, ventrally; 21 — same, laterally.