Falsoceratoprion fumagalliae, New Genus and Species: The First Calopterini from Dominican Amber (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
Author
Ferreira, Vinicius S.
Author
Tettamanzi, Lorenzo
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2022
2022-06-21
76
2
288
292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.2.288
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Genus
FALSOCERATOPRION
Ferreira
,
new genus
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Fig. 1
Type
Species.
Falsoceratoprion fumagalliae
Ferreira
,
new species
.
Etymology.
The name refers to the similarity of the new genus to the Neotropical mainland genus
Ceratoprion
Gorham, 1884
.
Falso
is a Latin word meaning false, deceiving.
Differential Diagnosis.
Falsoceratoprion
can be separated from all other known West Indian
Lycidae
(extant and fossil) by the combination of the following characteristics: distinctly serrate antennae (vs. subserrate or pectinate in
Thonalmus
Bourgeois, 1883
; distinctly serrate in
Mesopteron
Bourgeois, 1905
; subserrate, filiform, flabellate or pectinate in the
Leptolycini
), with the pedicel multiple times shorter than antennomere 3 (vs. variable across the different genera, usually pedicel and antennomere 3 subequal in length, with exceptions in the
Leptolycini
[pedicel much shorter than antennomere
3 in
Cessator
Kazantsev, 2009
and
Dominopteron
Kazantsev, 2013
]); the apparently developed mouthparts (vs. standard mouthparts in all
Thonalmus
and
Mesopteron
;
Leptolycini
, with weakly developed mandibles that are seemingly absent, with either strongly reduced or absent labial palps).
Falsoceratoprion
also has a subtrapezoidal pronotum, bearing an obscure fovea in the posterior portion (vs. usually subpentagonal in
Thonalmus
, bearing a distinct longitudinal carina in the anterior half and a cell in the posterior region; bearing a strongly visible longitudinal carina, entire through its full extent in
Mesopteron
; variable shapes in
Leptolycini
); the smooth elytra, not bearing any transverse costae nor presenting strongly developed cells (vs. overall strongly developed, irregular cells in
Thonalmus
; distinctly subquadrate and strongly developed cells in
Mesopteron
and
Dominopteron
; smooth elytra in all other
Leptolycini
); the strongly setose and dehiscent elytra (vs. variable across the groups, expanded apically or only weakly dehiscent in
Thonalmus
, usually glabrous; parallel-sided and bearing short setation in several
Mesopteron
; variable in the
Leptolycini
, which are overall dehiscent and densely setose in
Electropteron
Kazantsev, 2013
) and for bearing three distinctly visible costae that are fused apically (vs. three costae in
Thonalmus
and
Mesopteron
; variable in the
Leptolycini
, but usually two-costate).
From the described
Lycidae
genera occurring on the Neotropical mainland,
Falsoceratoprion
is superficially similar to
Ceratoprion
,
Ceratolycus
Kazantsev, 2017
, and
Aplopteron
Kazantsev, 2017, differing from these genera by possessing normally developed mouthparts (vs. weakly developed and strongly reduced labial palps in the mentioned genera), a densely setose body (vs. glabrous in the mentioned genera) and the pronotum not possessing a median longitudinal carina (vs. presence of a longitudinal carina in the mentioned genera, which has a cell in
Ceratolycus
and
Aplopteron
).
Description of Male. General coloration and setation:
Thorax, head, coxae, base of femora and basal third of elytra pale yellow, remainder of body brown, body densely setose throughout (
Fig. 1
).
Head:
As long as wide, widest at eyes (
Fig. 1A
), hypognathous (
Fig. 1B
), frons posterior to antennal insertion strongly bulging (
Fig. 1A
), apparently concave behind eyes (
Fig.1A
).Eyeshemispherical,projectinganterolaterally, coarsely granulate (
Fig.1
).
Mouthparts:
Maxillary palp apparently four segmented (
Fig. 1A
); terminal maxillary palpomere elongate, spatulate (
Fig.1A
).
Antenna:
With 11 antennomeres, from antennomere 3–10 distinctly serrate; densely setose, dorsoventrally flattened, inserted in gibbous prominence at anterior distal portion of head (
Fig. 1
); if in resting position, longer than body (
Fig.1
);scape pyriform,approximate at base,subconical; pedicel
ca.
4× shorter than scape; antennomeres 4–10 subequal, slightly increasing in length towards apex (
Fig. 1A
); antennomere 11 narrowly rounded apically (
Fig. 1A
).
Thorax:
Pronotum trapezoidal, transverse, lateral edges moderately developed (
Fig. 1
), posteriorly apparently bearing a weakly developed median fovea, median longitudinal carina apparently absent (
Fig. 1A
).
Elytra:
Dehiscent, weakly ligulate, 3-costate, with short bristle-like setae throughout (
Fig. 1A
); costae weakly developed, subparallel; costa I discontinued medially, costae II+III subapically fused (
Fig. 1A
).
Abdomen:
With eight ventrites; ventrite 7 shallowly notched medially; ventrite 8 lanceolate, apically blunt,
ca.
4× longer than ventrite 7,
ca.
one-fourth longer than tergite 9 (
Fig.1B
).
Length(head +pronotum +elytra):
3.3mm
.
Width (across humeri):
0.7 mm
.