Revision of the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Southeastern Asia
Author
Jameson, Mary Liz
University of Nebraska State Museum, Division of Entomology, Lincoln, NE U. S. A., 68588 - 0514 mjameson 1 @ unl. edu
Author
Wada, Kaoru
Musashimurayama Daini Junior School, 1460 Midorigaoka, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo 208 - 0012 Japan kwada 007 @ hotmail. com
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Zootaxa
2004
2004-05-04
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.502.1.1
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.502.1.1
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Peltonotus sisyrus
Jameson and Wada
,
n. sp.
(
Figs. 28
,
49a–c
,
62
,
65
)
Type Material.
Holotype
male housed at
FUJI
with following label data and male genitalia and mouthparts mounted beneath specimen: a) "near
Aceh
N.
SUMATRA
1993. NOV." (type face), b) "
FujiokaCollection
PeltonotusG1" (typeface and handwritten, yellow label), c) our
holotype
label
.
Allotype
female housed at
FUJI
with following label data: a) "near
Brastagi
NORTH SUMATRA
JUN. 1995
." (type face), b) "FujiokaCollection PeltonotusG2" (typeface and handwritten, yellow label), c) our
allotype
label
.
Description.
Holotype
male. Length
16.1 mm
. Widest width
7.7 mm
. Color: Head, pronotum, scutellum, pygidium, elytron, and venter castaneous. Elytra with weak iridescent bloom Head: Surface of frons with base impunctate (middle) to sparsely punctate (laterally), middle frons to apex moderately densely punctate, more dense laterally; punctures simple, multisetigerous; setae minute (1–12+ per puncture) and moderately long adjacent to eye (0–1 per puncture). Surface of clypeus moderately densely punctate, more dense laterally; punctures simple, multisetigerous; setae minute (1–12+ per puncture) and short near margin (0–1 per puncture). Clypeus laterally weakly bowed, apex truncate, corners square, beaded; bead not weakly arcuate posteriorly. Labrum broadly narrowly emarginate at middle. Mandible with external edge rounded, inner apex with 2 teeth.
Mentum
with apical half triangular, notched at middle; palpomere 2 dorsoventrally flattened, about 3 times width of palpomere 1, setose; setae dense, moderately long, rufous, weakly thickened, not curled. Maxilla (
Fig. 28
): mala with dense lamellate setal brush; stipes with setae dense, long, flattened at apex, not curled at apex; palpomere 2 with weak internomedial bump. Antennal club subequal to segments 2–7. Pronotum: Bead lacking anterior to scutellum. Surface moderately densely punctate; punctures simple, multisetigerous laterally; setae minute (1–7 per puncture) and short (0–1 per puncture). Lateral margin lacking long setae. Elytral sutural length: About 3.5 times length of scutellum. Elytra: Surface with 7 poorly developed, punctate, longitudinal striae between suture and humerus; punctures ocellate, moderate in size, moderately dense, multisetigerous apically and laterally; setae minute (1–20+ per puncture). Intervals similarly sculptured. Propygidium: Surface shagreened and moderately densely punctate; punctures simple, unisetigerous (short at base to middisc) and multisetigerous (minute at apex). Pygidium: Surface densely punctate; punctures ocellate, multisetigerous; setae minute (7–20+ per puncture) and long at apex (1–2 per puncture). Venter: Prosternal keel elongate; apex projecting anteriorly at about 90° with respect to ventral plane, produced to about 3/4 of protrochanter, truncate. Legs: Foretibia of male bidentate; lateral margin with short, dense setae. Foretarsomere 5 subequal in length to tarsomeres 1–4, greatly thickened; foretarsomeres 2–4 with apices expanded (moreso in 3), dorsal and ventral apices of tarsomeres 1–4 clothed with small patch of dense, short setae. Foreclaws with inner claw broadly curved, about 3 times thicker than outer claw; outer claw elongatearcuate, about 1/2 the length of inner claw; empodium bulbous at base. Meso and metatibial claws of male with 2 setae, claw angled toward venter, about 1/2 length of metatarsomere 5. Metatibia of male with apical spurs more or less straight; ventral spur produced to middle of metatarsomere 1, dorsal spur produced to apex of metatarsomere 2. Parameres:
Fig. 49a–c
.
Allotype
Female. Differs from the
holotype
in the following respects. Length
16.4 mm
. Widest width
7.6 mm
. Color: Head, pronotum, scutellum, propygidium, pygidium, and venter black; elytra black with iridescent bloom. Head: Surface of frons densely punctate, multisetigerous; setae minute (1–12+ per puncture) and short (0–1 per puncture). Surface of clypeus densely punctate, multisetigerous; setae minute (1–12+ per puncture) and short (0–1 per puncture). Pronotum: Punctures unisetigerous apicolaterally; short (0– 1 per puncture). Propygidium: Punctures unisetigerous with line of short setae near apex. Elytron: Epipleuron of female in ventral view expanded, broadly incised at sternite 4; in dorsal view expansion moderately developed (
Fig. 62
). Legs: Foreclaws subequal 1/2 length of foretarsomere 5, claw angled toward venter.
Diagnosis.
Peltonotus sisyrus
is one of only two
Peltonotus
species
that possess a mentum that is triangular in the apical half (
Fig. 28
; shared with
P. deltamentum
). It is easily separated from other species of
Peltonotus
based on the greatly enlarged fifth foretarsomere in the male and its distribution in northern
Sumatra
. In addition, the surface of frons and clypeus is multisetigerous; labrum broadly narrowly emarginate at middle; mandible with external edge rounded; male with foretarsomere 5 greatly thickened and apices of tarsomeres 1–4 clothed with small patches of dense, short setae; outer foreclaw elongatearcuate; and epipleuron of female in ventral view expanded, broadly incised at sternite 4 (
Fig. 62
).
Etymology. The specific epithet “
sisyrus
” is Greek for “shaggy garment” and refers to the dense short and long setae on the head of this species.
Distribution (
Fig. 65
).
Sumatra
,
Indonesia
.
Locality records (
2 specimens
) from
FUJI
.
INDONESIA
(
SUMATRA
).
Aceh Province
(2): Banda
Aceh
, Brastagi
.
Temporal Data. June (1), November (1).