Antillipeltis, a new genus of Antillean Trogossitidae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) with a key to the Cleroidea
Author
Lawrence, John F.
Author
Leschen, Richard A. B.
Author
Ślipiński, Adam
text
Zootaxa
2014
3794
3
435
454
journal article
45850
10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.6
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Antillipeltis nitida
sp. n.
(
Fig. 1
D)
Diagnosis.
This species is similar in size to
A. minuta
but differs in the longer and narrower elytra, which are primarily yellow, and the reddish-brown subquadrate pronotum, which is not as shiny.
Description.
Length 3.1–4.0 mm; body elongate (BL/EW = 2.05–2.10). Head primarily black above but with ventral surfaces, labrum, mandibles, palps and antennal funicle lighter (yellow or yellowish-brown); pronotum black; scutellar shield and anteromesal portions of elytral disc reddish-brown, with suture, sides and apices yellow, undersurfaces, legs and antennal club yellow to yellowish-brown. Dorsal vestiture of very short fine setae, most of which barely extend beyond edges of punctures; ventral surfaces and legs clothed with longer, decumbent and suberect setae. Head punctation moderately fine and dense. Pronotum 0.64–0.67 times as long as wide; sides distinctly curved, narrowly explanate and edges of lateral carinae crenulate; anterior angles very weakly produced and acute; posterior angles broadly rounded. Pronotal punctation somewhat coarser but sparse and irregular; interspaces finely granulate or smooth and shiny, almost metallic. Elytra 1.50–1.53 times as long as wide and 2.65–273 times as long as pronotum, slightly wider at posterior third; sides weakly rounded and explanate; punctation coarse and dense, interspaces smooth and shiny. Male abdomen with transverse setal rows on ventrites 3–5. Aedeagus 0.48 times as long as abdominal ventrites 1–5; tegmen with fused parameres 6.1 times as long as wide; parameres 0.36 times as long as body of tegmen including paired dorsal struts; ventral strut 0.80 times as long as body of tegmen; penis 1.14 times as long as tegmen including parameres and 19 times as long as wide, laterally compressed.
Type
specimens.
Holotype
, male,
Puerto Rico
: Guanica Central Finca, Ponce,
12.ix.1933
,
Rhizophora mangle
, R.G. Oakley
, San Juan #4696 (
NMNH
).
Paratype
: male,
Puerto Rico
:
Principi
Finca, Adjuntas,
3.v.1934
, decaying wood, R.G. Oakley, San Juan #5458 (
NMNH
).