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(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), a new tiger beetle species from the Philippines Herbert Zettel 2nd Zoological Department Natural History Museum Vienna Burgring 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Jürgen Wiesner Dresdener Ring 11 D-38444 Wolfsburg, Germany [email protected] Abstract. Conidera Rivalier, 1961 is a well-defined subgenus of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) hitherto only known from two species endemic to the island of Luzon. This paper describes the first species from Mindoro, with a doubtful record from Mindanao. Cylindera (Conidera) mindoroana Zettel and Wiesner, new species, dif- fers strongly by an unusual shape of the female’s elytra. A diagnosis for Conidera and a key to the species of this subgenus is presented. Key words. Cicindelini, diagnosis, new species, Mindoro, endemic species, diversity, key. Introduction Tiger beetles were recently re-established as a separate family Cicindelidae within the Coleoptera Geadephaga (López-López and Vogler 2017). They have been recognized as an important indicator group for biodiversity assessment and conservation aspects (Cassola and Pearson 2000). The Philippines are home to an extraordinarily rich tiger beetle fauna including many endemic species. In his world cata- log, Wiesner (1992) listed 94 cicindelid species from the Philippines. About twenty years later Cassola (2011) recognized 139 species of tiger beetles (120 endemic) that inhabit the Philippines, which places the country seventh in rank globally for total number of species, and fifth in rank for number of endemic species. Considering its small land area, the Philippines have the richest cicindelid fauna in the world (2145 km2 / species; Cassola 2011). Most recently, Cabras et al. (2016) listed 137 species and 18 subspe- cies. Four additional species have since been described (Dheurle 2016; Zettel and Pangantihon 2017), including the new species in this paper. The approximately 141 tiger beetle species recorded from the Philippines represent about 5.0% of the 2,840 species known worldwide (Wiesner, personal data). About 90% of the Philippine cicindelid species are endemic (see discussion). In this study, we introduce a new species of Conidera Rivalier, 1961. Rivalier (1961) described Conidera as a subgenus of the diverse and widely distributed genus Cylindera Westwood, 1831 due to overall similarities in the endophallic structures. However, Conidera has a very distinctive appearance within Cylindera, and superficially resembles Thopeutica Chaudoir, 1861, a genus geographically restricted to Sulawesi and the Philippines. Conidera can be readily distinguished from all other Philippine Cicin- delidae by the combination of a metallic labrum (not white, yellow, or bicolored as in most other species of Cylindera), distinctly elongated mandibles with four to six teeth (besides molar complex; Fig. 3, 4), a slender, anteriorly narrowed pronotum (Fig. 1, 2), and a slender aedeagus (Fig. 14-16) with a weakly curled flagellum (Fig. 17–22). In contrast,Thopeutica has a three-toothed mandible and a characteristic flagellum, that is complexly coiled in four to five convolutions (comp. Rivalier 1961, sub Diotophora Rivalier, 1961; see also Cassola and Ward 2004). Previously only two species were included in Conidera: Cylindera (Conidera) conicollis (Schaum, 1862) (type species) and C. (Conidera) mandibularis (Schaum, 1860), both from the island of Luzon (Wiesner 1992; Cabras et al. 2016). 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0632, May 2018 ZETTEL AND WIESNER Materials and Methods In addition to the six type specimens of C. mindoroana sp. n. (see type material below) we have studied seven specimens of C. conicollis (from Luzon: Mountain Province, Laguna Province, and unspeci- fied locality; Natural History Museum Vienna and coll. Wiesner, Wolfsburg) and nine specimens of C. mandibularis (from Quezon, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur; coll. Wiesner, Wolfsburg, and coll. Zettel, Vienna) for comparison. A Leica Wild M10 binocular microscope with a camera lucida was used for verbal description, mea- surements, and line drawings. Measurements (all in millimeters): BL Body length. Maximum length along body axis from apex of labrum to apex of elytra. HW Head width. Maximum width of head, including eyes, in dorsal aspect. PW Pronotum width. Maximum width of pronotum, in dorsal aspect. PL Pronotum length. Length of pronotum along midline, in dorsal aspect. EL Elytron length. Length of elytron measured diagonally from apex of mesoscutellum to rounded apex of elytron.