Rearrangements in some species groups of Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) including keys, description of a new species, new host plant and distributional records
Author
Santos, Aluska Tavares Dos
Author
Ribeiro-Costa, Cibele Stramare
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-27
4701
2
101
148
journal article
24790
10.11646/zootaxa.4701.2.1
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1175-5326
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Amblycerus goianiensis
Santos & Ribeiro-Costa
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 14
,
27
,
40
,
53
, 70, 83, 96, 102, 119)
Type
.
Holotype
deposited in
DZUP
, male, with label: Mineiros—GO\
X-1994
\ Magno Col.
Diagnosis (
Figs 96
)
.
Amblycerus goianiensis
Santos & Ribeiro-Costa
,
sp. n.
is very similar externally and in relation to genitalia to
A. insuturatus
, from which it differs by the frontoclypeal suture distinct (indistinct in
A
.
insuturatus
), cervical boss with four setae (three setae in
A
.
insuturatus
), the last ventrite almost twice as long as the ventrite IV (almost as long as ventrite IV in
A
.
insuturatus
), internal sac of male genitalia in the apical region with a subtriangular sclerites (with a pair of ovoid sclerites in
A
.
insuturatus
), unpaired median subtrapezoidal sclerite (unpaired wishbone sclerite in
A
.
insuturatus
).
Description
.
Measurements
. BL: 7.9 mm; BW: 4.6 mm.
Integument color (
Figs 14
,
40
,
83
)
. Body red, except by light red antennae.
Vestiture (
Figs 14
,
27
,
40
,
53
,
83
)
. Body covered with orange setae. Pronotum and elytra uniformly orange. Scutellum light yellow. Pygidium with median stripe of light yellow.
Head (
Fig. 27
)
. Frons covered with fine and moderately dense coarse punctures; without frontal carina. Eyes distant from each other anteriorly, ocular index: 3.0; ocular
sinus
: 1.3. Postocular lobe 0.3 times the eye length. Antennae reaching anterior margin of hindcoxae; serrated from antennomeres 4–10; antennomere 7 about 1.4 longer than wide, last antennomere subelliptic. Frontoclypeal suture distinct. Clypeus covered with fine and moderately coarse punctures except by a narrow apical area. Labrum with few fine punctures on basal margin.
Prothorax (
Fig. 53
).
Pronotum trapezoidal with lateral margins slightly curved, covered laterally by coarse and dense punctures (
Fig. 53
); lateral carina almost reaching the posterior margin of pronotum; cervical boss with four setae; cervical sulcus conspicuous behind eyes. Prosternal process longer than anterior coxae, gently arched between coxae and slightly constricted between coxae.
Meso- and metathorax (
Figs 14
,
40
, 70).
Scutellum about 1.5 longer than wide, tridentate in apical margin, median tooth longer than the lateral ones (Fig. 70). Elytra with striae strongly impressed, all free apically (
Fig. 14
). Metepisternum with moderately coarse and sparse punctures (
Fig. 40
); metepisternal sulcus with transverse axis gently oblique; the longitudinal axis about half the length of metepisternum. Metaventrite not prominent in lateral view, without punctures and with median sulcus longer than a half the lenght of metaventrite (
Fig. 40
). Metacoxae with coarse punctures (
Fig. 40
). Hindtibia with lateral spur about twice the length of median spur (
Fig. 40
).
Abdomen (
Figs 40
,
83
)
. Ventrites without moderately coarse punctures (
Fig. 40
); last ventrite almost twice as long as the ventrite IV. Pygidium with apical margin rounded and with dense and moderately coarse punctures (
Fig. 83
).
Male genitalia (
Figs 96
,
102
)
. Median lobe of male genitalia about 4.2 times times as long as its greatest width at apical region (
Fig. 96
). Ventral valve with lateral margins almost straight and acuminate apex. Dorsal valve subtriangular, with lateral margins almost straight, rounded apically. Internal sac in the apical region with a pair of hollow, ovoid, tuberculate sclerites (
Fig. 96
). Median region with a pair of blades serrate at lateral margin; with unpaired wishbone sclerite. Tegmen with moderate, rounded, emargination between the enlarged lateral lobes (
Fig. 102
).
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution (
Fig. 119
)
.
Brazil
(
Goiás
).
Life History
. No information is available.
Host Plants.
Unknown.