Australian Opilonini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) part I: A revised taxonomy for Australian Opilo Latreille including descriptions of new genera and species
Author
Bartlett, Justin S.
Author
Lambkin, Christine L.
justin.bartlett@daf.qld.gov.au
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-12-15
5220
1
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5220.1.1
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Ancyropilus hornensis
sp. nov.
ZooBank registration:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
91850EDB-374C-48AE-BB1E-28B7B0E321E2
(
Figs 35
,
74
,
110
,
141
; Map 1)
HOLOTYPE
♁:
Northern Territory
:
Horn Islet Pellew Group, N.T.
15-21 Feb. 1968
B. Cantrell
(
QM
, type reg. T258549)
.
PARATYPES
(2):
Northern Territory
:
Horn Islet Pellew Group, N.T.
15-21 Feb. 1968
B. Cantrell
(1 ♁,
QM
);
Horn
Islet Sir Edward Pellew Group, N.T.
15-21.ii.1968
B. Cantrell
(
1 ♀
,
QM
)
.
Diagnosis.
Pronotum rotund (sub-globose); elytra dark with orange humeral fasciate and apical maculations (humeral maculae less well-defined), 8
th
stria beginning near anterior margin of fascia or within fascia, striae reaching apical maculae, interstrial setae not dense as in other
Ancyropilus
species
; femora yellow basally, brown apically, tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads.
Description.
Habitus
:
Fig. 141
.
Total length
:
7.3–9.8 mm
(
holotype
,
8 mm
).
Head
: Vertex and frons black to dark brown, clypeus reddish black or brown, anteclypeus semi-transparent orange, labrum, antennae and palpi orange to orange-brown; eyes separated by about 0.54–0.65 eye widths (
holotype
, 0.54); vertex and upper part of frons punctate-rugulose, lower part of frons (above epistomal suture) transversely rugulose with occasional punctation near eye margins; clypeus relatively heavily punctate; genae and submentum wrinkled; exterior margins of terminal palpomeres about 1.5 times (maxillary) and 2 times (labial) the length of inside edges; antennae not reaching base of pronotum; eyes and cranium with long erect pale setae, frons and vertex with denser shorter medially-directed setae.
Prothorax
: Dark brown, pronotal arch and basal collar generally paler than disc, prosternum dark to pale brown; pronotum robust (sub-globose), about 1.14–1.25 times longer than wide (
holotype
, 1.14), sides rounded to subtly angulate, middle wider than pronotal arch; subapical depression v-shaped, central impression obsolete; disc moderately punctate though with a smooth reflective general appearance, punctures more dense laterally, a medial glabrous stripe in basal half, base with paired paramedical glabrous tumescences, anterior paramedical tumescent areas partly glabrous; disc with fine short multi-directional setae and sparser long erect setae.
Pterothorax
: Ventrites dark orange-brown, with fine pale posteriorly- or medially-directed setae; elytra dark brown with yellow-orange markings (each elytron with a weakly defined humeral macula running obliquely towards but not reaching the suture, a broad median fascia that crosses the suture and is broadest laterally—anteriorly meeting the humal macula in the female
paratype
, plus a trigonal apical macula), length to width ratio 2.62–2.72:1 (
holotype
, 2.72:1); 8
th
stria beginning near anterior margin of median fascia, or within fascia (after about 7–10 punctures from base of the 7
th
stria), all ten striae reaching apical macula, or 6
th
and/or 10
th
striae terminating before apical macula; punctation circular, without nodules, diameter of apical punctation similar or slightly smaller than diameter of basal punctures, striae separated by approximately one puncture diameter; epipleurae extending into apical maculae; interstrial setae generally arranged single-file along striae (two setae across strial width observed in striae posterior of median fascia); intrafoveal setae shorter than puncture diameter in the two observed males and as long as puncture diameter in the only known female specimen.
Legs
: Approximately basal half of profemora and basal three-fifths of mesoand metafemora yellow, remaining parts of femora brown; tibiae and tarsi brown, tibial carinae darker; ventral tarsal pads yellowish; meso- and metafemora slender, profemora weakly swollen.
Abdomen
: Ventrites brown.
Male genitalia
: Tegmen (
Fig. 35
), widest near middle, slightly narrowed between middle and parameroid lobes (the apices of which are tapered to a slender, pronounced, slightly inwards-directed digitiform process), dorsal sinus just under one-third tegmen length, ventral sinus about as long as dorsal sinus, apodeme very short, about one-fifthteenth tegmen length; median lobe as in
Fig. 74
; pygidium as in
Fig. 110
.
Etymology.
This species is named after the
type
locality of Horn Islet, of the Sir Edward Pellow group of islands located in the south-west corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria,
Northern Territory
.
Biology.
All
three adult
specimens were collected in mid-February.
Distribution
(Map 1).
Ancyropilus hornensis
sp. nov.
is so far known only from Horn Islet, a small rocky landmass about
2 km
long, near the larger
Centre
Island.