Review of the Australian Cyllodini (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae), with descriptions of new taxa, and notes on the genus Macleayania (Nitidulini)
Author
Lawrence, John F.
Author
Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-14
4544
3
301
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journal article
27668
10.11646/zootaxa.4544.3.1
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1175-5326
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Key to the species of
Gymnocychramus
1. Colour primarily dark reddish-brown or black (
Fig. 6
); prothorax wider than combined elytra; sides of pronotum broadly rounded and sides of elytra straight and slightly converging almost to apex; macropunctures on elytra placed more sparsely within longitudinal rows, the distances between them usually greater than a puncture diameter; prosternum strongly tumid; mesal lobe at apex of mentum subacute; ventral surfaces with a number of large, elongate-oval pits lining postmesocoxal lines and anterior edges of metacoxal cavities and occurring on all abdominal ventrites; dorsal lobe of penis (
Figs 62–63
) about as long as ventral lobe, deeply incised, with small tooth at base of incision; total length
4.70–6.20 mm
(mean 5.54)....................................................................................................
G. politus
Lea
- Colour primarily reddish-orange, with elytra black (
Figs 12, 23
); prothorax as wide as or slightly narrower than combined elytra; sides of prothorax and elytra evenly, continuously curved; macropunctures on elytra placed more densely within longitudinal rows, the distances between them often less than a puncture diameter; prosternum weakly convex; mesal lobe at apex of mentum broadly rounded; ventral abdominal pits, if present, very small; dorsal lobe of penis (
Figs 60–61
) much shorter than ventral lobe, apically acute, not incised and without tooth; total length 3.00–5.00 mm (mean 3.98)......
G. bicolor
sp. nov.