Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae)
Author
Opitz, Weston
Division of Plant Industry / Entomology, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1911 SW 34 Street, Gainesville, Florida 32608 - 7100, USA
text
Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-02-24
2022
913
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.6391885
1942-1354
6391885
78496742-E381-477E-BAA7-2D14868E6253
Onychotillus cinctipennis
(
Chevrolat, 1874
)
Figures 13
,
22
.
Type material. Type:
Gender unknown. Type locality:
Cuba
(
MNHN
). Chevrolat did not specify as to the number of specimens that were involved in his description. A
lectotype
will need to be designated when materials are available for study.
Diagnosis.
The elytral margins are yellow, the elytral disk is black. These characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
Redescription.
Size.
Length 5.0 mm; width 2.0 mm.
Form.
As in
Fig. 13
.
Color.
Cranium and antenna black, prothorax yellow, but slightly infuscated, elytra outlined in yellow, elytral disc black, legs bicolorous, abdomen black.
Head.
Cranium finely punctate, eyes prominent, frons much wider than length of pedicel; EW/FW 15/35.
Thorax.
Pronotum glabrous, oblong, minimally expanded at middle 1/2; subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow; PW/PL 60/60; elytra punctations striate, striae reduced near elytral apex; EL/EW 230/100; short elytral setae decumbent, long elytral setae recumbent.
Abdomen.
Aedeagus feebly sclerotized, phallobasic apodeme rectangular, phallobase not lobed, phallobasic rod present, phallic apex adorned with cluster of spines (
Fig. 22
).
Variation.
Size
. Length 4.8–5.0 mm; width
1.6–1.8 mm
. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogenous.
Distribution.
This species is known from
Cuba
. I examined
three specimens
from Buenos Aires,
Trinidad
Mountains,
14-VIII-1936
,
2,500
–3,500
feet
, Darlington (MCZC).