New species and records of Macrodactylus Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Macrodactylini) from Bolivia
Author
Arce-Pérez, Roberto
Red Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Apdo. Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, Mexico.
roberto.arce@inecol.mx
Author
Morón, Miguel Ángel
Red Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Apdo. Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91000, Mexico.
miguel.moron@inecol.mx
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-28
3857
2
292
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3857.2.8
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Macrodactylus yunganus
Arce-Pérez & Morón
,
new species
(
Figs.
3
–4
,
10–
13
)
Diagnosis
. Body integument and legs shiny black; funicle, elytra, sternite
6
, and pygidium yellowish red. Dorsally glabrous, ventrally with white setae; tarsi with rings of white setae. Parameres with setae.
Description
.
Holotype
male: Body length
12.5 mm
, humeral width
3.9 mm
. Color: Body shiny black; mouthparts, funicle, elytra, sternite
6
, and pygidium yellowish red. Surface: dorsally glabrous, ventrally with white vestiture; tarsi with rings of white setae. Head: Form elongate, rugopunctate. Clypeus trapezoidal, anterior border briefly sinuate. Antennal club mostly black, clearly shorter than funicle; length of funicle shorter than length of head. Mentum elongate and oval, longitudinally with wide furrow, with sparse setae on surface. Thorax: Pronotum hexagonal, convex; length
2.90 mm
, width
2.80 mm
; black with blue shine, glabrous, rugopunctate. Prosternal process short, slender, subtriangular, acute; hidden in frontal view. Scutellum wide, black, with white setae. Elytra with slightly punctate striae, inner borders and central area darkened. Metasternum wide; with dense and abundant vestiture of slender, long, clear yellow setae between mesocoxae and metacoxae. Abdomen: Sternites
2–5
moderately concave at middle, sternites
1–5
with dense and abundant vestiture of slender and stout spine-like, erect, yellow setae at each side of midline; length of sternite
5
twice length of sternite
4
with spine-like, long setae; sternite
6
oval, yellow, with spine-like, long setae near the posterior border. Pygidium glabrous, elongate, ovate, with long spine-like setae on the apex. Legs: Profemur with a subrectangular projection near base. Mesotibia widened toward the apex; with two long, straight, acute spurs and long, spine-like setae around apex. Tarsi enlarged, with rings of white setae and long spine-like setae around apex; all tarsal claws long and cleft. Genitalia: Total length
2.10 mm
. Parameres stout, oval, convex, broadly rounded with medium setae on distal half; weakly fused dorsobasally; apex rounded, slightly divergent; length
1.44 mm
, width
1.02 mm
(
Figs.
10–12
).
Allotype female
: Body length
11.40 mm
; humeral width
3.70 mm
. Similar to male except as follows: pronotum width
2.75 mm
, length
2.50 mm
, with clypeus and legs dark red, antennal club short, elytra darkened on inner borders, basal third yellowish red; sternites
2–5
convex; pygidium subtriangular, short, weakly convex. Genital plates long, oval, length
1.30 mm
, width
0.52 mm
; apex rounded, asymmetrical, external border nearly rounded (
Fig.
13
).
Variation
: One male
paratype
has the clypeus and legs yellow, and dark elytra; apex of parameres with straight inner border and briefly sinuate external border.
Material examined
:
Holotype
male
:
BOLIVIA
,
Santa Cruz
,
16 km
NE Mairana
,
Yunga de Mairana
,
18
°03'
35
''S
63
°
54
'
38
''W
,
29
-I-
1999
,
2100–2300 m
,
Yungas
ex.
hand collecting, trail,
99
-004.
F. Génier
(
CMNC
).
Allotype: same data as
holotype
(
CMNC
).
Paratypes
(
2
males
).
BOLIVIA
,
Santa Cruz
,
32.8 km
NW Comarapa
,
Kara Huasi
,
Yunga de la Siberia
,
17
°
49
'
20
''S
64
°
42
'
31
''W
,
27
-I-
1999
,
2400 m
, Yungas
ex.
hand collecting, trail,
99
- 0 0
2
,
F. Génier
(
1
male
CMNC
,
1
male
MXAL
).
Natural history
. Specimens were collected during daylight hours on leaves of unidentified plants in wet elfin forest in January (
4
) at elevations of
2100–2400 m
.
Remarks.
The combination of colors, absence of dorsal setae, proportions of antennal parts, and shape of parameres and female genital plates aid to distinguish
M. yunganus
from other species.