Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 79. (Budapest 1987)

Merkl, O.: A review of the Australian species of the subtribe Lagriina (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae)

Remarks — The new species may clearly be distinguished from all the other species of Ecnolagria in having a large prominent tooth at the inner edge of the fore tibiae of male. In addition, the extremely narrow interocular space and the conspicuously elongate antennái segment I of males are also characteristic. Females can be separated from those of Ecnolagria similis by the reddish ventral surface; from darker specimens of Ecnolagria tomentosa, E. aurofasciata and E. monteithi by the much larger size and the more elongate body. It is a pleasure to dedicate this distinctive species to Ms. Margaret A. Schneider (Brisbane), who was kind enough to lend me the very nice and valuable lagriine material of UQIC. Ecnolagria similis sp. n. (Figs 83, 109) Body oblong oval, widening posteriorly ( Q ). Head, pronotum and scutellum brownish black with vague metallic sheen, elytra dark bronze with expressed greenish tinge. Ventral surface black. Antennae and legs entirely black. Dorsal surface with pubescence rather short, scattered, erect on head and pronotum; short, moderately dense and nearly decumbent on elytra, with some longer erect hairs near apex. — Length 11-11.5 mm. 9. Head densely and coarsely punctate. Interocular distance a little narrower than eye diameter (IOI = 92.6). — Antennae long and slender, segment I shorter than interantennal distance (IAI = 61.5). Relative lengths of segments VII to XI are 17 : 17: 15: 13: 33, i.e. last segment a little longer than 2 preceding combined. Segments IX and X simple. — Pronotum transverse (PNI = 79.8), widest at middle, with 4 weak depressions. Punctation coarser but sparser than that of head. Interspeces irregularly raised, plicate, smooth. — Elytra distinctly widening toward posterior third, convex. Apex simply rounded. Punctation fine and dense (but a little coarser than that of elytra of Ecnolagria schneiderae), interspaces neither raised nor plicate, smooth. — Surface of metasternum and abdominal sterna even. Last abdominal segment simply rounded at apex. — Legs slender and long, tibiae unarmed. — Habitus : Fig. 109. çf. Unknown. Type material — Holotype 9> labelled as follows: Mt. Lewis, 8 mis. NW Mt. Molloy, Q, 2700 ft. 15 Mar 1964 I. F. B. Common & M. S. Upton | Holotypus O Ecnolagria similis Merkl, 1987 55 56 57 58 Figs 55-56. Ecnolagria aeneoviolacea (CHAMPION): 55 = aedeagus, dorsal view, 56 = aedeagus, left lateral view. — Figs 57-58. Ecnolagria schneiderae sp. n. : 57 = aedeagus, dorsal view, 58 = aedeagus, left lateral view. — Scale bar 1 mm