A revision of the genus Macrolygistopterus Pic, 1929 (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calochromini)
Author
Ferreira, Vinicius S.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.4.2
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Macrolygistopterus germaini
Pic, 1930
(
Figs. 4
,
13
,
22
,
30
,
45
)
Macrolygistopterus germaini
Pic, 1930a
: 84
(original description);
Kleine, 1933
: 104
(catalogue);
Blackwelder, 1945
: 351
(catalogue);
Nascimento, 2013
: 324
(checklist of species).
Type
material.
Macrolygistopterus germaini
:
syntype
, male, from Minas Gerais State,
Brazil
, hereby designated as
lectotype
, deposited at
MNHN
.
Diagnosis.
Elytral costa I reaching elytral apex, subapically obliterated; costae II and IV subapically fused, forming an arch, subapically obliterated; costa III not touching the arch formed by costae II+IV (
Fig. 30
). Adjacent area of scutellum black (
Fig. 30
).
Redescription.
Head black, prolonged in short rostrum, as long as sum of antennomeres II+III (
Fig. 13
); coronal suture shallow; median interocular distance of
2x
width of eyes. Mandibles curved, connate to labrum, testaceous. Maxillary palp with palpomere IV slightly larger than III, securiform; segments II and III subequal in length. Antennae finely pubescent, scape subconic, pedicel small (1/3 of scape length); antennomere III as long as I; IV subequal to III, slightly larger and longer; antennomeres V to XI gradually decreasing in length.
Pronotum rectangular, transverse, slightly wider than longer (8:9), with rounded angles and posterior angles pronounced, testaceous, with a longitudinal black stripe medially located; a pair of longitudinal elevations parallels, discontinued at basal and apical third, broadened in middle third. Pair of oblique elevations in basal third and a pair of parallel median elevations (
Fig. 4
). Scutellum black, wider than longer.
Elytra subparallel, margins stout and pronounced, testaceous, with apical third black. Arrangement of elytral costae: Elytral costa I reaching elytral apex, subapically obliterated; costae II and IV subapically fused, forming an arch, subapically obliterated; costa III not touching arch formed by costae II+IV (
Fig. 30
). Adjacent area of scutellum black (
Fig. 4
,
30
).
Width at humeri> 3.4mm. Elytral length—11.1mm.
Distribution.
Brazil
, Minas Gerais, only known by the
lectotype
(
Fig. 45
).
Examined material.
Brasil
[Minas Gerais], Caraça, P.
Germaini
, 2º Semestre 1884,
1
♂ (
lectotype
) (
MNHN
).
Female unknown.