Doliops schultzei sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype: Male. Philippines: Polillo Isl., G.F.Baker [leg.], coll. W.Schultze, Ankauf 1942. [Doliops polilloensis Schultze [nomen nudum ]]. Deposited in SMTD.

Description. Body black, mat, with visible luster. Surface convex, with green scales. Length: 11.5 mm, width: 4.5 mm.

Head almost square, parallel-sided, with lobate eyes and longitudinal band of green scales between eyes and antennal bases. Cheeks beneath the eyes without spots. Labrum covered with numerous setae. Head black, finely punctate and shiny. Antennae of type specimen damaged. Basal segments of antennae black, shiny and pubescent, with slight metallic luster. Prothorax cylindrical. Pronotum convex, black, shiny, along the edges with band of green scales. Dorsal disc of pronotum mat, without scales, slightly tomentose laterally and with light luster. Scutellum triangular, with rounded angles, tomentose. Elytra short, convex, black, mat, with visible light luster, with transverse, wide, irregulare bandformig spots of green scales, which converge with a green interrupted longitudinal band along the elytral suture and apex of elytra. Elongated green band starts at the basis of the elytra near the scutellum and is parallel to the suture, and then narrows slightly and converges with a transverse 8-shaped irregular spot, the upper edge of which near the suture is interrupted. In apical direction of elytra along a suture will continue with two spots, one after the other. In apical part elytra with a v-shaped strip that continues around the apex. In apical part of the elytra is another transversal irregular spot. Between these spots there are black, mat areas with a visible light lustre. Elytra on the side with protrunding shoulder bumps. Elytra behind shoulders slightly impressed, without raised nodules between the shoulder and the scutellum. Shoulders black and encircled by the green spots. Width of elytra at shoulders: 4.1 mm. Largest width of elytra behind middle: 4.5 mm. Elytra finely punctate. Anteriorly with sparse and coarse punctuation and pubescence. Meso-, metaepimera and sternites with spots at their sides. Legs short, thick. Femora with greenish spot at apex and more or less tomentose. Tibia broadened and flattened apically. Tarsi short and broad. Surface of tarsomeres covered with grey pubescence. Tibia and tarsi apically covered with numerous setae.

Distribution: Philippines: Polillo Isl.

Differential diagnosis. This new species differs from the others by a characteristic pattern of the body surface.

Mimicry. Currently we have no data about the mimicry of this species.

Etymology. This species is named after German entomogist Willi Carl Max Schultze (1881-1940), who made a significant contribution to the research of the the genus Doliops Waterh. and described four new species whith types deposited in SMTD.