Coleoptera Heteromera From Guam
Author
Blair, K. G.
British Museum \ (Natural History), London
text
1942
1942-06-01
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam I
56
60
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5159673
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2.
Euglenes guamensis
,
new species
.
Similar in form to
E. bifossicollis
,
but thorax smaller and more strongly transverse, without the prebasal foveae; the puncturation is finer, the coarser hairs more decumbent and not conspicuous, the fine decumbent pubescence exhibiting dark markings on a silvery ground as follows: on thorax an elongate median patch and a smaller spot near each angle; on elytra an irregular transverse band (or three spots united) at basal one fourth, a strongly zigzag transverse band just beyond middle, projecting farthest forward on suture and nearly as far in middle of disk. Antennae.stout (female), joints 4 to 11 of equal thickness, 6 to 10 strongly transverse. Hind femora rather strongly incrassate. Length 1.25 mm.
Libugon Farm, Aug. 10,
holotype
female, swept from unknown tree;
Inarajan, May
7,
one female
;
Piti, Oct. 29, swept from bamboo,
one female
;
Agana, May 15, one example, head and prothorax missing; all collected by Swezey.
Very close to
Xylophilus marquesa
.nus Blair
(B. P. Bishop Mus., Bull. 98: 290, fig. 1, 1935), but rather smaller with stouter antennae and the dark markings of the elytra differently disposed.