Procraerus angulatus, Platia & Pulvirenti, 2023

Platia, Giuseppe & Pulvirenti, Edoardo, 2023, New species and new records of click beetles of the genera Girardelater Schimmel, 1999, ProcraerusReitter, 1905 andXanthopenthes Fleutiaux, 1928 from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Elaterini and Megapenthini), Faunitaxys 11 (31), pp. 1-18 : 4-5

Procraerus angulatus n. sp.

( Fig. 7, 28, 50, 61, 62)

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Holotype, ♂, Indonesia, East Borneo , Pajau River, E. Mjöberg ( NHRS).

Paratype, 1 ♀, same data as Holotype ( NHRS) .

Diagnosi s. – The species belonging to the P. asper -group sensu Schimel, 1999 can be compared to P. stolarczyki Schimmel, 2004 from Sabah for the general shape and size, it can be separated by the longer antennae and the angulated sides of pronotum.

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1. Girardelater nepalensis n. sp. 2. Girardelater riesei n. sp. 3. Girardelater schimmeli n. sp. 4. Procraerus toegoensis n. sp. 5. Procraerus borneoensis n. sp. 6. Procraerus duffetsorum n. sp. 7. Procraerus angulatus n. sp. 8. Procraerus giardinii n. sp. 9. Procraerus acuminiformis n. sp. 10. Procraerus subinfumatus n. sp. 11. Procraerus javanus n. sp. 12. Procraerus smetsi n. sp. 13. Procraerus grootaerti n. sp. 14. Procraerus mindanaoensis n. sp. 15. Xanthopenthes manettii n. sp. 16. Xanthopenthes tamilensis n. sp. 17. Xanthopenthes viklundi n. sp. 18. Xanthopenthes cambodianus n. sp. 19. Xanthopenthes constanti n. sp. 20. Xanthopenthes nigerrimus n. sp. 21. Xanthopenthes lemoulti n. sp.

Description. – Male.

Moderately shiny.

Coloration. – Head and pronotum brown with vague blackish shadings, elytra blackish with base and fourth-sixth interstriae yellowish for all its length; antennae blackish with the first three articles yellowish, legs lighter, yellow; covered with moderate, yellow-fulvous pubescence.

Head. – Frons moderately convex, flat before the anterior margin, the latter shiny, sub-arcuate, directed downwards and just protruding above the clypeus; punctures umbilicate and 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 just shorter than the fourth; fourth-tenth sub-triangular, the third longer than the following, last sub-ellipsoidal. (Fig. 28).

Pronotum. – 1.15x wider than long, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, convex, with a short and moderate mid-longitudinal impression at the basal slope; sides dilated behind the middle and suddenly tapering to the apices, sub-parallel before the posterior angles, the latter long, acuminate, not divergent, unicarinate; carina short and diverging from the lateral margins, the latter and in the first third well visible in a dorsal view; punctuation coarse and uniformly distributed; punctures umbilicate with shortest intervals to contiguous on all the surface ( Fig. 50).

Scutellum . – Shield-shaped, ridged at base, flat, rounded at the apex, densely punctured.

Elytra. – 2.7x longer than pronotum and 2.35x longer than wide, convex; sides widest at the middle, apices entire, striae well punctured, interstriae flat with wrinkled surface.

Aedeagus. – As in the Fig. 7 (length 1.0 mm).

Size. – Length 6.3 mm, width 1.87 mm.

Female. – Body larger and more convex, antennae shorter. – Length 8.1 mm, width 2.5 mm.

Etymology. – The name is referred to the shape of pronotum, in the male dilated after the middle.