New species of the genus Ypsiloncyphon (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae)
Author
Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki
text
Zootaxa
2015
3904
4
451
500
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3904.4.1
a1c49726-9afa-4be5-85ef-9d0caabac1fe
1175-5326
239899
38457A27-A15B-4E87-BE72-9A3AB007CAA5
Ypsiloncyphon flexus
sp. n.
(
Figs. 26
D, 33)
Type
material.
Holotype
(
NHM
): male, “
TRAY
95”, “Fog11
230 m
10. iii. 85
BMNH
Plot A”, “
INDONESIA
: SULAWESI
UTARA
, Pumoga-Bone N. P.
March 1985
.”, “R. Ent. Soc. Lond. PROJECT WALLACE B. M. 1985- 10”.
Paratypes
:
1 male
(
NHM
), “
TRAY
46”, “Fog13
230 m
11. vii. 85
BMNH
Plot A”, “
INDONESIA
: SULAWESI
UTARA
, Pumoga-Bone N. P.
July 1985
.”, “R. Ent. Soc. Lond. PROJECT WALLACE B. M. 1985- 10”;
1 male
(
NHM
), “
TRAY
56”, “Fog13
230 m
11. vii. 85
BMNH
Plot A”, “
INDONESIA
: SULAWESI
UTARA
, Pumoga-Bone N. P.
July 1985
.”, “R. Ent. Soc. Lond. PROJECT WALLACE B. M. 1985-10”;
1 male
(
EUMJ
), “
TRAY
45”, “Fog13
230 m
11. vii. 85
BMNH
Plot A”, “
INDONESIA
: SULAWESI
UTARA
, Pumoga-Bone N. P.
July 1985
.”, “R. Ent. Soc. Lond. PROJECT WALLACE B. M. 1985-10”.
FIGURE 33
.
Ypsiloncyphon flexus
sp. n.
, holotype, male. A) sternites V–VII, B) tergite VIII, C) tergite IX, D) tegmen, E) penis in ventral view.
Description.
Male. Body (
Fig. 26
D) oval, strongly convex dorsally, shiny, closely covered with silver setae. Coloration of body brown; antennae, mouthparts and legs pale brown.
Head relatively large, flat dorsally, finely punctate, front margin of clypeus shallowly concave. Eyes large, prominent; the distance between eyes about 2.0 times as long as the maximum diameter of an eye. Antennae slender and long, reaching about proximal 1/2 of elytra. Pronotum densely punctate, strongly depressed in lateral parts; antero- and postero-lateral corners right-angled; anterior margin almost straight; lateral and posterior margins gently arcuate; PW/PL 2.00–2.29 (2.19). Scutellar shield finely punctate, equilaterally triangular. Elytra oval, widest at the middle, punctate as in pronotum; humeral parts slightly projecting; apices right-angled; EL/EW 1.23–1.29 (1.26); EL/PL 3.80–4.39 (4.14); EW/PW 1.49–1.50 (1.50); TL/EW 1.53–1.60 (1.57). Legs relatively long and slender.
Caudal margin of sternite VII (
Fig. 33
A) gently arcuate. Tergite VIII (
Fig. 33
B) moderately sclerotized, semicircular, bearing short spines and setae along caudal margin, with a pair of short slender apodemes. Sternite IX (
Fig. 33
C) very long, moderately sclerotized, elongate U-shaped, twisted in caudal parts. Tegmen (
Fig. 33
D) moderately sclerotized, Y-shaped; parameres slender, bearing short setae in lateral margins, pointed at apices. Penis (
Fig. 33
E) moderately sclerotized, about 1.2 times as long as tegmen; pala long, subparallel-sided; parameroids long, bilobed, slender; trigonium long, protruding from basal 2/5 to 4/5, curved ventrally in apical part.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements.
Male (n = 3): TL 1.78–1.92 (1.84) mm; PW 0.75–0.80 (0.78) mm; PL 0.33–0.40 (0.36) mm; EL 1.45–1.52 (1.48) mm; EW 1.12–1.20 (1.17) mm.
Distribution.
Indonesia
(Sulawesi Isl.).
Remarks.
This species is similar to
Ypsiloncyphon Micans
(Klausnitzer)
in having a similarly shaped penis, but differs from the latter in the following characteristics: 1) sternite IX very long and twisted (long and almost straight in
Micans
), and 2) tegmen bearing short setae (lacking setae in
Micans
).
Etymology.
The species name refers to the shape of the sternite IX.