Malaysia, Sabah (Eastern Borneo Island), Maliau Basin, upstream Giluk Falls, ca. 4°44'49"N, 116°52'38"E, ca. 950 m a.s.l. (Fig. 12A)

Holotype ♂ (BOR/COL): “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ upstr. Giluk Falls; bottom rock, run; \ ca. 4°44'49"N, 116°52'38"E, ca.950m a.s.l. \ 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, CV. Pangantihon, P. Serail (GilF3g)”; terminal parts of abdomen incl. aedeagus glued separately; right foreleg, left protarsus incl. parts of protibia and left antenna lacking; right elytral apex slightly damaged.

The new species is named in honour of the actor Leonardo DiCaprio to acknowledge his inspiring work in promoting environmental awareness and bringing the problems of climate change and biodiversity loss into the spotlight. The species name was selected during a naming ceremony at Maliau Basin Studies Centre on 6 October 2017, in which expedition participants as well as a large number of field centre staff and porters took part.

Body obovate, 2.97 mm long (CL), 1.60 mm wide (EW), 1.9 times as long as wide (CL/EW).

Dorsal colouration (Figs 2, 5A) black with slight metallic lustre; claws and antennae dark brown; pubescence yellow. Ventral side (Figs 5B, C) very dark brown. Plastron pubescence shiny golden.

Head 0.65 mm wide (HW); ID 0.27 mm; partly retractable; labrum with dense fringes of moderately long setae, punctures very small and dense; frons and clypeus moderately pubescent, setae moderately long, punctures small and moderately dense; intervals almost flat and glabrous. Frontoclypeal suture distinct, slightly concave. Eyes moderately protruding. Antennae genus-typical, slightly shorter than HW.

Pronotum (Fig. 5A) 0.85 mm long (PL), 1.12 mm wide (PW), distinctly wider than long (PL/MW), widest posterior 0.25, distinctly narrower than elytra, anteriorly distinctly attenuate; anterior margin convex; median carina absent, distinct sublateral carinae present posterior 0–0.3; oblique impressions very shallow; laterobasal impression very shallow, indistinct; pronotal disc moderately vaulted, densely punctate; punctures moderately big and shallowly impressed; interstices glabrous and flat; setae comparably short; pronotal impressions appearing rugose by irregularly enlarged punctures. Hypomeron rugose, increasingly pubescent (plastron) ventrad.

Prosternum (Fig. 5B) very short, lateral portions with very dense, fine pubescence (plastron); median portion and process glabrous; prosternal process distinctly partitioned and elevated from remaining prosternum, short, distinctly wider than long, posteriorly broadly rounded; margins conspicuously fringed; sub-posteriolateral portion slightly impressed, rugose.

Scutellum (Fig. 5A) elongate sub-cordiform, posteriorly impressed, glabrous.

Elytra (Figs 2, 5A) roundly elongate, strongly convex dorsally, 2.31 mm long (EL), ca. 1.4 times as long as wide (EL/EW); apices separately conically pointed in posterior 0.05, with eight to nine (most lateral row partly divided anterior 0.3–0.7) longitudinal rows of punctures (striae); striae moderately (anterior portion) to inconspicuously (posterior portion) impressed; punctures of rows 2 and 3 dissolved beyond anterior 0.8; remaining punctures somewhat regularly arranged (except for most lateral row), but distinctly varying in size and degree of impression: much larger (2–6 times of intervals) and deeply impressed medio-basally, small (0.1–0.3 times of intervals) and shallowly impressed sub-apically; interstices glabrous; intervals 7 and 8 with finely crenulate carinae approx. from basal 0.1 to 0.9; carinate interval 8 extending as “shoulder crest” basad up to pronotal angle; intervals 1–3 slightly broadly elevated basal 0.1–0.2; at least intervals 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 with rows of scattered setae (most of them presumably broken off in the specimen examined); lateral elytral margin serrate and with row of setae.

Mesoventrite (Fig. 5C) with two pairs of moderately deeply impressed grooves, one sub-rectangular pair behind procoxae and another sub-trapezoidal pair medially behind prosternal process.

Metaventrite (Fig. 5C) disc glabrous, with longitudinal impression along median suture, medioanteriorly impressed; anterior angles (bordering mesocoxae) process-like elevated; lateral metaventrite portions with large irregular punctures or impressions; their interstices rugulose; most lateral portion (approx. between hind coxae and shoulder) with dense plastron pubescence.

Abdominal ventrites (Fig. 5C). Ventrite 1 with pair of longitudinal carinae between glabrous disc and densely pubescent lateral portions (plastron); broad lateral portions of ventrites 1–4 and almost entire ventrite 5 densely covered with plastron (Fig. 5C); median glabrous portions with sparse punctures and small setae.

Legs (Fig. 2) slightly shorter than body, hind leg longest; hind tibiae slightly broader than those of the other legs; tibia longer than tarsus and femur in all legs; parts of coxae, proximal femora and entire inner (ventral) face of tibiae and femora moderately densely covered with short adpressed setae; outer (dorsal) edge of femora and tibiae and inner (ventral) edge of tarsomeres 1–4 with fringes of long trichoid setae; remaining portions with scattered short setae; distal portion of tibiae and inner edge with longitudinal rows of robust setae; apex of tibiae additionally with pair of spines.

Aedeagus (Fig. 6A–C) ca. 840 μm long, ca. 180 μm wide. Phallobase slightly asymmetrical basally, reaching basal 0.41 of total aedeagus length. Median lobe almost four times as long as wide, distinctly overreaching parameres, evenly slightly conical towards round apex. Ventral sac large, apically inflated beyond apex (presumably more inflated than in regular position), internal surface entirely densely covered with moderately short and thin spines, outer surface also covered with such spines up to the level of the parameres (presumably because more inflated than in regular position). Parameres distinctly shorter than median lobe, apices evenly rounded (lateral view), conical from insertion to half-length and very slender in apical half in lateral view, with approx. 20 trichoid setae in apical fourth of ventrolateral margin; most apical setae distinctly longer than all others.

Male sternite IX (‘spiculum gastrale’) with posterior margin rounded and entirely fringed with a broad, distinctly sclerotized margin; paraprocts closely attached to posterior portion, sub-equally long, not reaching apical margin; median strut broken and not examined.

Unknown.

By its unusually large size, Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi sp. n. resembles G. hercules Jäch, 1984 from Nepal, which also shares some other characters with the new species (only 7^th and 8^th elytra interval crested, margins of prosternal process fringed, elytral apices pointed), but G. leonardodicaprioi, sp. n. can be distinguished by the slenderer elytra, the fully glabrous (in between punctures) and not elevated median pronotum, the shallower elytral striae, as well as by its conspicuously varying aedeagus with broad main piece which distinctly overreaches the evenly rounded paramere tips (vs. very slender main piece only slightly overreaching the conically tapered paramere tips in G. hercules). The large size and other characters mentioned above also allow clear distinction from the species described below and any known congeners from Malaysia and Indonesia.

This species is only known from the type locality, the Giluk Falls of the upper Maliau Basin, Sabah (Figs 11, 12A).

Malaysia, Sabah (Eastern Borneo Island), Maliau Basin, Creek east of ‘Nepenthes Camp’, ca. 4°44'57"N, 116°52'45"E, 1000 m a.s.l. (Fig. 12B).

Holotype ♂ (BOR/COL): “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ Creek E Nepenthes Camp; bottom rock, \ run; ca. 4°43'57"N, 116°52'45"E, ca. 1000m a.s.l. \ 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, P. Serail, C. de Groot (NepC3g)”; terminal parts of abdomen incl. aedeagus glued separately on entomological cards. Paratypes: 3 ♂, 4 ♀ (BOR/COL): same data as holotype; 3 ♂, 3 ♀ (BOR/COL) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ Giluk River; Cryptochorinae water plants, \ run; ca. 4°44'36"N, 116°52'21"E, ca. 980m a.s. \ l.01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, H. Freitag, L. Seip, P. Piccoli (GilR2r)”; 1 ♂, 5 ♀, (BOR/COL) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ upstr. Giluk Falls; bottom rock, run; \ ca. 4°44'49"N, 116°52'38"E, ca. 950m a.s.l. \ 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, CV. Pangantihon, P. Serail (GilF3g)”; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (NMW) “BRUNEI: Mt. Pagon \ 61 ARIF3 \ 4°20'35.8"N, 115°15'40.6"E \ 5.VI.2012 \ leg. K. Baker”; 5 ♂, 4 ♀ (NMW) “BRUNEI: Muara, Mukin Kilanas, \ Wasai Kendal Fall; sandy lowland creek; \ sec. forest; c.10m asl, c. 4°52'N, 114°53'E \ 15.6.1997 leg. Mendoza (3)”.

The species epithet refers to the English noun ‘quest’ (search, aspiration) in reference to the intense search for riffle beetles at Maliau Basin which was a big quest for the citizen scientists involved in the project. Additionally, the new species is named for the Dutch popular science magazine QUEST of which journalist Paul Serail joined the first taxon expedition. The word is used as a noun in apposition.

Body elongate obovate, 1.5–1.8 mm long (CL), 0.73–0.85 mm wide (EW), 2.1 times as long as wide (CL/EW).

Dorsal colouration (Figs 3, 7A) predominantly black; tarsi, antennae, and maxillary palps reddish dark brown; pubescence yellow. Ventral side (Fig. 7B, C) reddish dark brown.

Head 0.35–0.37 mm wide (HW); ID 0.14–0.21 mm; partly retractable; frons, clypeus, and labrum sparsely pubescent, slightly denser laterally; punctures small and scattered; intervals flat, glabrous. Frontoclypeal suture almost straight. Eyes very slightly protruding. Antennae genus-typical, rarely exposed, usually semi-circularly folded around anterior eye margin.

Pronotum (Fig. 7A) 0.49–0.55 mm long (PL), 0.56–0.64 mm wide (PW), wider than long (PL/MW), widest posterior 0.25, distinctly narrower than elytra, anteriorly moderately attenuate; anterior margin distinctly convex; median carina absent, sublateral carinae present, but indistinct at posterior 0–0.2; oblique impression shallow, extending from mid lateral rim to posterior 0.2; laterobasal impression shallow; pronotal disc distinctly vaulted, very densely punctate; punctures small and shallowly impressed; setae moderately long, often broken off; anterior and anteriolateral portions sparsely punctate; interstices glabrous and flat; impressions and lateral margins rugose. Hypomeron rugose.

Prosternum (Fig. 7B) short; lateral portions with very dense, fine pubescence (plastron); median portion including process medially broadly impressed and glabrous; margins finely striate; prosternal process sub-pentagonal, much wider than long.

Scutellum (Fig. 7A) sub-cordiform, flat and glabrous.

Elytra (Figs 3, 7A) roundly elongate, strongly convex dorsally, 1.08–1.29 mm long (EL), ca. 1.4 times as long as wide (EL/EW), sub-parallel basal 0.1–0.5, apices separately rounded (in both sexes), with eight longitudinal, moderately to slightly impressed rows of punctures; punctures somewhat regularly arranged, much larger (1.5–2.5 times of intervals) and deeper impressed basally, very small (0.2–0.4 times of intervals) and more shallowly impressed apically; less regularly arranged in lateral rows; interstices rugose except for almost glabrous apical portion; intervals 3, 5, 7, 8 with crenulate carinae approx. from basal 0.05 to 0.75, particularly on 2^nd interval distinctly elevated basal 0.1–0.3; carinate intervals 5 and 7 convergent basal 0.05–0.15; all carinae with row of yellowish pubescence; lateral elytral margin serrate.

Mesoventrite (Fig. 7B) with deep subtrapezoidal grooves behind procoxae, medially with pair of oval impressions in males, the latter more indistinct or lacking in females.

Metaventrite (Fig. 7B) with irregular impressions, except for almost glabrous disc with longitudinally impression along median suture; interstices on marginal portions somewhat irregularly micro-striate to micro-reticulate.

Abdominal ventrites (Fig. 7C). Ventrite 1 with pair of longitudinal carinae bordering glabrous disc; ventrites 1–2 glabrous medially; lateral portions of ventrites 1–2 and almost entire ventrites 4–5 densely covered with plastron and scattered moderately long setae (Fig. 7C); apex and lateral margins of ventrite 5 more densely pubescent.

Legs (Fig. 3) slightly shorter than body; hind leg longest; tibia longer than tarsus and femur in all legs; coxae, femora, and tibiae moderately densely covered with short adpressed setae; inner (ventral) edge of distal tibia and tarsomeres 1–4 with fringe of long trichoid setae and short spine-like setae; outer (dorsal) edge of all femora and tibiae with longitudinal row of spine-like setae (in both sexes); apex of tibiae with pair of apical spines (most conspicuous at hind tibia). Legs not conspicuously varying between male and female.

Aedeagus (Fig. 8A, B) 550–560 μm long, 130–150 μm wide. Phallobase slightly asymmetrical basally, reaching ca. basal 0.6 of total aedeagus length. Median lobe moderately slender, gradually tapered towards a sub-globularly expanded apex; sub-globular apex bent ventrad (lateral view). Ventral sac apically inflated internally densely stippled and with dense fringe of moderately short, thin and comparably delicate spines; few of those overreaching apical fringe. Parameres slightly shorter than median lobe, apically moderately truncate and slightly dilated ventrally (lateral view), moderately broad and evenly conical from insertion to apical 0.15 in lateral view, usually with more than 30 trichoid setae in apical half, most of them at inner face; most apical setae longest and inserted at outer surface.

Male sternite IX with median strut moderately long and almost rectangularly bent sub-distally; posterior portion entirely fringed with a broad, distinctly sclerotized margin; posterior margin rounded; paraprocts sub-equal in length, not reaching apical margin.

Ovipositor (Fig. 8C). Total length ca. 620 μm. Stylus ca. 45 μm long, slightly conical basad, very slightly bent outwards, with ca. six short sensilla. Coxite approx. half as long as entire ovipositor (ca. 300 μm), with scattered extremely short, acute setae (most densely near apex) and few apical, hook-like sensilla; distal portion medially very slender, 2.4 times as long as proximal portion, inner margin pubescent (rather inconspicuous). Valvifer almost as long as coxite (ca. 280 μm), caudal portion slightly sclerotized and with scattered, extremely short, acute setae; fibula almost straight.

The paratypes from Brunei are among the smallest specimens within the given measurement ranges and have a somewhat smoother elytral surface with less impressed punctures and less elevated carinae; the aedeagus agrees well in the distinctive features (shape, size and setation of parameres; shape and size of median lobe), but the phallobase is slightly longer (0.67 of total aedeagus length), slightly slenderer and more ventrally bent basally. In specimens from either locality, elytra and pronotum are commonly incrusted with deposits making proper examination of the surface structure hardly possible.

Unknown.

Grouvellinus quest sp. n. superficially resembles the Indonesian species G. aeneus (Grouvelle, 1896), but it is slightly larger (CL: 1.5–1.8 mm vs. total length 1.5–1.7 mm), black (vs. brown), and the pronotal disc is flat between punctures (vs. shagreened). Based on the only available undamaged male material of G. aeneus (see Jäch 1984; NMW: “Bali Baturiti D. Limnol. Exp.”) that was, however, not determined with absolute certainty, there are distinct differences in their aedeagi: larger (550–560 μm long), with longer phallobase (> half total length) and with sub-globular, ventrally bent tip of the median lobe in G. quest sp. n. (vs. smaller (400 μm long), with shorter phallobase (< half total length) and regularly rounded tip of median lobe in G. aeneus). G. quest sp. n. and all other new species treated in here can easily be distinguished from the only know Malaysian species G. bishopi by the absence of a median pronotal carina.

This species is known only from Borneo Island, namely the upper Maliau Basin in Sabah and two sites in Brunei (Fig. 11).

Malaysia, Sabah (on Borneo Island), Maliau Basin, upstream Giluk Falls, ca. 4°44'49"N, 116°52'38"E, ca. 950 m a.s.l. (Fig. 12A).

Holotype ♂ (BOR/COL): “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ upstr. Giluk Falls; bottom rock, run; \ ca. 4°44'49"N, 116°52'38"E, ca. 950m a.s.l. \ 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, CV. Pangantihon, P. Serail (GilF3g)”, terminal parts of abdomen incl. aedeagus glued separately. Paratypes: 2♂, 2♀ (BOR/COL) same data as holotype; 5♂, 3♀ (BOR/COL) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ Creek E Nepenthes Camp; bottom rock, \ run; ca. 4°43'57"N, 116°52'45"E, ca. 1000m a.s.l. \ 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, P. Serail, C. de Groot (NepC3g)”; 1♂, 1♀ (BOR/COL) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: Creek W Nepenthes Camp; bottom rock, run; ca. 4°44'04"N, 116°52'41"E, 1000 m a.s.l.; 01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić & H. Freitag (NepC4g)”; 2 ♂, 2 ♀ (BOR/COL) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Maliau Basin: \ Giluk River; Cryptochorinae water plants, \ run; ca. 4°44'36"N, 116°52'21"E, ca. 980m a.s. \ l.01.X.2017, leg. I. Njunjić, H. Freitag, L. Seip, P. Piccoli (GilR2r)”; 7♂, 7♀, 7exs. (NMW) “Malaysia, Sabah, Crocker \ Range, Rafflesia Centre, \ around km 61 of road Kota \ Kinabalu, Tambunan, \ 13-14.VI. 1996, 6 a”; 1♂ (NMW) “Malaysia, Sabah, ca. 7 km S \ Sapulut, Saupi riv. in primary \ forest, ca. 500m a.s.l.,J.F. Kočiam lgt.”; 1♂, 4♀, (NMW) “Malaysia, Sabah, Crocker, \ Range, Sunsuron, 10.-11.VI. \ 1996, 8a, Sunsuron riv. flowing \ through deforested area”; 1♂, 1 ex. (NMW) “MAL., Sarawak 1993 \ Kelabit HL, Umg. Bario \ 26.2., ca 1000 m \ leg. M. Jäch (14)”; 1♂, 1 ♀, 1 ex. (NMW) “MAL., Sarawak 1993 \ Kelabit HL, 6km E Bario \ Pa Ukat, 27.2., ca 1000 m \ leg. M. Jäch (16)”; 1♂, 2exs. (SP) “MALAYSIA: Sabah: Tawau, Lucia River, 750 m a.s.l.”.

The new species is named after the Dutch astronaut André Kuipers in recognition of his engagement against the loss of the planet’s natural resources and his ambassadorship for various entomological organizations. The name was elected in an online public contest organized by the science program De Kennis van Nu of the Dutch public broadcaster NTR.

Body elongate obovate, 1.7–1.8 mm long (CL), 0.86–0.91 mm wide (EW), 2.0 times as long as wide (CL/EW).

Dorsal colouration (Fig. 4) predominantly dark brown; pronotum black; elytra darkest at disc; basal area between shoulder and sutural interval usually with a pair of more or less distinct and extended yellowish brown spot; commonly also sub-apical elytral areas with indistinct faint paler spots; legs dark brown increasingly paler distad; tarsi and antennae golden brown; maxillary and labial palps brown; pubescence shiny yellowish. Ventral side (Fig. 9B, C) reddish dark brown.

Head 0.35–0.39 mm wide (HW); ID 0.16–0.17 mm; partly retractable; frons, clypeus, and anterior and lateral areas of labrum moderately pubescent; punctures small; intervals medially flat and glabrous, laterally rugulose. Frontoclypeal suture straight, indistinct. Eyes slightly protruding. Antennae genus-typical, usually semi-circularly folded around anterio-lateral eye margin.

Pronotum (Fig. 9A) 0.52–0.55 mm long (PL), 0.62–0.64 mm wide (PW), wider than long (PL/MW), widest posterior 0–0.3, distinctly narrower than elytra, anteriorly attenuate; anterior margin slightly convex; median carina absent, but with a pair of short posterior-median rugose patches (anterior of the scutellum); sublateral carinae very indistinct and short; oblique impression moderately deep, narrow, extending approx. anterior 0.3–0.75; laterobasal impression shallow and indistinct; pronotal disc slightly vaulted; entire pronotum moderately sparsely punctate; punctures very small and shallowly impressed; setae moderately long; interstices glabrous and flat; laterobasal impression and lateral margins rugulose. Hypomeron rugose, moderately densely pubescent.

Prosternum (Fig. 9B) short; lateral portions with very dense, fine pubescence (plastron); median portion including process medially broadly impressed, rugulose except for glabrous median portion; prosternal process sub-quadrate, approx. as wide as long; lateral margins finely striate.

Scutellum sub-triangular, medially slightly impressed, glabrous.

Elytra (Fig. 4) roundly elongate, moderately convex dorsally, 1.29–1.33 mm long (EL), ca. 1.5 times as long as wide (EL/EW), widest at the middle, slightly tapered anteriad; apices separately rounded, with eight longitudinal, slightly impressed rows of punctures; punctures much larger (in row 1: approx. as wide as intervals) and deeper impressed basally, increasingly smaller (in rows 1–4: 0.2 times of intervals) and more shallowly impressed apically, regularly arranged in median rows only, less regularly arranged in lateral rows; interstices glabrous; only interval 8 with (genus-typical) serrate carina; all carinae with row of yellowish pubescence; lateral elytral margin serrate.

Mesoventrite (Fig. 9C) with two pairs of deep sub-trapezoidal grooves, one behind procoxae, another medially, the latter more distinct in males.

Metaventrite (Fig. 9C) with large glabrous disc; longitudinal impression along median suture limited to posterior half; lateral portions with irregular impressions and irregularly micro-striate interstices; posterior-lateral portions with very dense, fine pubescence (plastron).

Abdominal ventrites (Fig. 9C). Ventrite 1 with pair of longitudinal carinae between glabrous disc and densely finely pubescent lateral portions (plastron); broad lateral portions of ventrites 1–2 and almost entire ventrites 4–5 (Fig. 9B) densely covered with plastron and scattered, moderately long setae; the latter more dense at apex and lateral margins of ventrite 5.

Legs (Fig. 4) approx. as long as body; hind leg longest; tibia longer than tarsus and femur in all legs; outer (dorsal) edge of all femora and tibiae with longitudinal row of robust trichoid setae (in both sexes); coxae and inner (ventral) faces of femora and tibiae densely covered with plastron-like short adpressed setae; inner (ventral) edge of distal tibia and tarsomeres 1–4 with fringe of long trichoid setae and short spine-like setae; apex of tibiae with pair of apical spines and a cluster of long spine-like setae (most conspicuous at hind tibia). Legs not conspicuously varying between sexes.

Aedeagus (Fig. 10A, B) ca. 440 μm long, ca. 100 μm wide. Base reaching basal 0.46 of total aedeagus length. Median lobe ca. four times as long as wide, distinctly overreaching parameres, slightly conical towards round apex in apical third. Ventral sac apically inflated, internally densely stippled and with dense sub-median fringes of moderately long, thin spines. Parameres apically conical (in both, ventral and lateral view), very slender in apical 2/3 in lateral view, usually with more than 20 trichoid setae in apical third, most of them at outer ventral face; most apical 2–4 setae longest and inserted at dorsal face.

Male sternite IX as in previous new species.

Ovipositor (Fig. 10C) similar to that of Grouvellinus quest sp. n., but overall slightly shorter (total length ca. 580 μm); stylus slightly shorter (30 μm long), and more bent outwards; coxite relatively longer (260 μm long), apically more broadened, ca. 2.8 times long as proximal portion; valvifer 330 μm long.

Unknown.

Grouvellinus andrekuipersi sp. n. is similar in size, pronotal and elytral surface structure to G. thienemanni Jäch, 1984 and G. sumatrensis Jäch, 1984, but displays a slenderer pronotum in relation to the elytra and slightly convex lateral elytral margins (vs. slightly concave or straight in basal half in G. thienemanni and G. sumatrensis). The yellowish elytral patterns commonly seen in G. andrekuipersi sp. n. were not observed in any examined specimen (n = 20) of the two congeners. Their entire elytra and pronotum appear overall slightly paler (brown). Additionally, the pronotal basis is entirely rugulose (“shagreened”) in G. thienemanni and G. sumatrensis (vs. glabrous with a pair of median rugose patches in G. andrekuipersi sp. n.). In G. thienemanni, the pronotal disc is additionally more densely punctate. The aedeagus of the new species is also similar in size and proportions to that of G. thienemanni, but in G. andrekuipersi sp. n., the paramere tips are distinctly conical (vs. evenly rounded in G. thienemanni) and the median lobe is wider and conically tapering towards apex (vs. evenly slender in apical 1/5 in G. thienemanni). From the previous new species (G. quest sp. n.), G. andrekuipersi sp. n. can easily be distinguished by 1) the pale elytral patches; 2) the smoother elytral surface due to the lack of any other elytral carinae than at interval 8; 3) the relatively broader and laterally convex elytra; 4) the sparse punctures of the pronotum; and 5) the smaller aedeagus with distinctly varying base, median lobe, and parameres.

This species is known only from Borneo Island, namely the upper Maliau Basin, Tawau Hills Park, and Crocker Range in Sabah and two sites in eastern Sarawak (Fig. 11).