Limbodessus habbema Balke, Villastrigo, Hájek, Surbakti, Panjaitan & Hendrich, 2025, sp. nov.
Limbodessus habbema sp. nov. Figs 3 A, B, C, 8 D, 10 C, 11 F, 12 D, E, 13 F, 14, 16 C Type locality. Mossy puddles in Alpine grassland, Lake Habbema area, Angguruk-Baliem, 3,200 m [04 ° 07 ' 77 S, 138 ° 40 ' 77 E], Papua, Indonesia. Type material. Holotype, male: “ Indonesia, Papua, Lake Habbema, pools, 3200 m, 19. x. 2011, 04.07. 772 S 138.40. 773 E, Balke leg. (PAP 06) ”, “ Holotype Limbodessus habbema sp. nov. Balke et al. 2025 ” [red printed label] (MZB). Paratypes (322): 126 exs., with the same label data as the holotype (NHMW, KSP, ZSM); 70 exs., “ IRIAN JAYA: Lake Habbema, 17. 10. 1993, 3250 m, ca. 138°40E 04°09'S, leg. M. Balke (37) ” [IR 93 # 37] (NHMW, ZSM); 1 ex., “ IRIAN JAYA: Trikora Gebiet 19. - 20. 10. 1993, Habbema [Lake] and Kali Oue Tal [Valley], ca. 138°43'E 04°13'S, 3450 m, leg. M. Balke (39) ” (NHMW); 81 exs., “ Papua, Lake Habbema, 3300 m, 24.04, 2006, Tindige leg. ”, 3 specimens with printed green labels “ 3161 ”, “ 3162 ”, “ 3163 ” (ZSM); 11 exs., “ Irian Jaya, Wamena E, Habbema lake, 4°07'S 138°40'E, 20. 1. 1999, leg. A. Weigel ” (ZSM); 2 exs., “ Indonesia, West Papua, Highland near Lake Habbema, Sphagnum-pools near the road, 3451 m, 4°06'32.8"S 138°38'54.2"E, 09. 06. 2022, N. Wendlandt leg. ” (CNW, ZSM); 19 exs., “ Indonesia, West Papua, Lanny Jaya, Kecamatan Makki highland, peatland pools, 3013 m, 4°01'13.7"S 138°35'34.0"E, 06. 06. 2022, N. Wendlandt leg. ” (CNW, ZSM); 18 exs., “ Indonesia, West Papua, Lanny Jaya, Kecamatan Makki highland, peatland pools, 3170 m, 4°02'25.0"S 138°36'20.5"E, 07. 06. 2022, N. Wendlandt leg. ” (CNW, ZSM); 11 exs., “ Indonesia: Papua, Lake Habbema, Phyllodrom leg. 2001 ” (ZSM); 48 exs., “ INDONESIA, Papua: Jayawijaya Distr., ca. 30 km W of Wamena, open wetland nr Habbema lake, 04°07.8'S, 138°40.7'E; 3330 m, J. Hájek & J. Šumpich leg., 5. ii. 2015 ” (NMPC); 9 exs., “ Indonesia: Papua, Lake Habbema, 3400 m, viii. 2018, - 4.1460 ° 138.675 °, Sumoked (Pap 77) ” (MZB, ZSM). All paratypes are provided with a red printed paratype label. Measurements. Holotype: TL = 2.7 mm; TL-H = 2.5 mm; MW = 1.2 mm. Paratypes: TL 2.25–2.8 mm, TL-H = 2.15–2.65 mm, MW = 1.1–1.2 mm. Description. Large, body elongate-oval, with distinct discontinuity in lateral outline between pronotum and elytron. Sutural line absent; cervical line absent, but some specimens with a cervical dense row of punctures. Pronotal and elytral stria present and distinct (Fig. 3 A, B, C). Color. Head black, clypeus anteriorly paler, dark brown. Pronotum with anterior half, laterally, and basal angles dark ferruginous to dark yellowish, baso-medially darker, dark brown to blackish; in one specimen almost entirely yellowish. Elytron dark brown to dark ferruginous; in some specimens posteriorly with distinct dark yellowish and dark brown color pattern. Antennomeres 1–4 / 5 dark ferruginous, 6–11 darker, blackish. Legs dark ferruginous; mid of metatibiae and metatarsi darker, blackish (Fig. 3 A). Ventral side chiefly black. Prosternum, epipleura and sternite 7 ferruginous. Sculpture. Head densely punctate; a cervical dense row of punctures visible, vertex almost impunctate but with distinct microreticulation only. Size of punctures on frons equal of size of meshes of microreticulation but decreases towards clypeus. Pronotum with moderately dense punctation along fore-margin; size of punctures as on frons; otherwise with fine and sparse punctation only. Elytron with moderately dense and evenly distributed punctation that may be faint on antero-sutural part. Ventral side with few punctures, shiny; only sternite 7 with distinct microreticulation. Structures. Metacoxal lines anteriorly diverge and do not reach posterior margin of metaventrite. Male. Shiny. Distinct microreticulation only posteriorly of cervical row of punctures on head; indistinct microreticulation of that line anteriorly. Antennomeres rather long and narrow; antenna thus not appearing stout (Figs 12 D, E, 13 F). Median lobe as in Fig. 8 D and parameres as in Figs 10 C, 11 F. Female. Dull. Head with faint microreticulation, pronotum and elytron dull with distinct microreticulation between punctures. Antenna distinctly clubbed due to lateral expansion of antennomeres 3–11 (Figs 12 D, E, 13 F). Some females with broadly enlarged antennomeres (Fig. 3 C). Etymology. Named after the Habbema lake, where the species was discovered. The name is a noun in the nominative standing in apposition. Distribution. Only known from the Lake Habbema area in the central mountain range of Papua (Fig. 14). Differential diagnosis. The new species belongs to a group of larger (TL = 2.25–3.0 mm) and almost blackish high alpine species. Limbodessus habbema sp. nov. is close to L. alexanderi and L. juliana sp. nov. but can be separated from them by the form of the female antennae, which is distinctly clubbed due to lateral expansion of antennomeres 3–11 (Figs 12 D, E, 13 F), the form of the median lobe (Fig. 8 D), and the form of the parameres (Figs 10 C, 11 F). Habitat. Small puddles in alpine meadows (Fig. 16 C).
Institutions
- State University of Papua (ID)
- National Museum (CZ)
- Cenderawasih University (ID)
- Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (DE)
- Universidad de León (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-06-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15602645
- Primary Topic
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
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