Review of Anillinus, with Descriptions of 17 New Species and a Key to Soil and Litter Species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini)
Author
Sokolov, Igor M.
Author
Carlton, Christopher
Author
Cornell, James F.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2004
2004-06-30
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Anillinus cornelli
Sokolov and Carlton
,
new species
(
Fig. 23
, Map fig. 42)
Holotype
(
USNM
).
Male
labeled /
NC
Gaston Co.
Crowders
Mt St Pk
23
VI82
JF Cornell
pine log litter 982
VI23-3
/
HOLOTYPE
,
Anillinus cornelli Sokolov and Carlton
, des. 2004/.
Paratypes
(11). Three males and
1 female
, same data as holotype;
1 male
labeled /
SC York Co
nr
Kings
Mt Kings Mt St
Pk 20
V 72
JF Cornell
/ (
JFC
);
1 male
labeled /
SC York Co Kings
Mt St
Pk nr Kings Mt 9 I 83
JF Cornell Ulogs
stones stream Debr 983-I-9-2C/;
5 males
labeled /
SC York
Co
Kings
Mt St
Pk Oct 28, 89
JF Cornell
989- X-28-3/ (
JFC
)
.
Specific Epithet.
The species is named after Jim Cornell, collector of the
type
series and many other specimens of the genus.
Description.
Medium-sized for genus (ABL range,
1.61–2.08 mm
, mean,
1.90 mm
, n
¼
10). Habitus moderately convex, ovoid (WE/ABL, 0.38); head normally proportioned for genus (WH/ WPm, 0.80); pronotum and elytra relatively narrow (WPm/WE, 0.75). Color of body brunneus, appendages testaceous. Microsculpture of head limited to small triangular area at middle of vertex and frontal impressions, absent from disc of pronotum.
Pronotum moderately convex, and transverse (WPm/LP, 1.16), with margins rectilinear and slightly constricted posteriad (WPm/WPp, 1.10). Anterior angles evident, slightly prominent. Posterior angles slightly obtuse (1058). Width between posterior angles slightly greater than width between anterior angles (WPa/WPp, 0.91).
Elytra moderately convex, moderately depressed along suture, of normal length for genus (LE/ ABL, 0.54), with traces of 2–3 interneurs. Humeri moderately prominent, slightly rounded. Vestiture of elytra relatively short (less than one-fourth the length of the discal setae).
Males with metafemora simple.
Median lobe (
Fig. 23
) arcuate, twisted, with small, narrowly rounded apex. Internal sac with copulatory pieces of dorsal and ventral sclerites. Dorsal sclerite strongly arched near midpoint of median lobe, apex extending far beyond internal sac when fully extended. Ventral sclerite formed from three elongate subapical tubercles.
Fig. 42.
Locality records for
Anillinus
spp.
occurring within North and South Carolina, with the French Broad River indicated.
Distribution.
This species is known from two nearby localities in Gaston County,
North Carolina
(Crowders Mountain State Park) and York County,
South Carolina
(Kings Mountain State Park) (
Fig. 42
).
Habitat.
The
holotype
was collected in pine log litter.
Differential Diagnosis.
Anillinus cornelli
is ovoid in form without microsculpture on the forebody (
Table 2
, group VIII of litter species). It is distinguished from all other species in this group (for which males are known) by the form of the median lobe and armature of the internal sac.
This species is apparently allopatric with respect to other described species of
Anillinus
and likely is sympatric with at least one species of
Serranillus
. From
A. loweae
it differs by the absence of microsculpture at the disc of pronotum and in lacking head microsculpture, except a small triangle at the middle of the vertex, and by the distinctive aedeagus.
Anillinus cornelli
is similar to
A. murrayae
in habitus and the general shape of the main dorsal copulatory sclerite of the aedeagus and may represent its allopatric sister taxon. In
A. cornelli
that structure is more strongly arched and elongate than it is in
A. murrayae
. Also, the accessory aedeagal sclerites of the two species are quite different, with
A. cornelli
lacking the ventral blade-like sclerite and clusters of spines.
Anillinus cornelli
also differs in having the male metafemora not expanded (
i.e.,
evenly convex along posterior margin) and the tubercles along the posterior margin are much smaller and are visible only under very high magnification and strong illumination.