Revision of Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 and descriptions of New Acroleptina taxa (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calopterini)
Author
Ferreira, Vinicius S.
text
Journal of Natural History
2020
J. Nat. Hist.
2020-03-11
53
45 - 46
2739
2756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1733120
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2020.1733120
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Aporrhipis milleri
Ferreira
new species
Figures 22, 24
,
25
.
Material examined (1).
Holotype
1♂
:
BRASIL
:
Para
; nr.
Maraba
, nr.;
Bacuri
;
24-X-1974
;
J.F. Reinert
;
malaise trap
(
FSCA
).
Etymology.
This species is named in honour of the great North American
Lycidae
systematist, Richard Stuart Miller.
Diagnosis.
The bicoloured body, the presence of a weakly developed cell in posterior portion of pronotum (
Figure 22
) and the male genitalia (
Figure 25
) helps to distinguish
Aporrhipis milleri
from other species in the genus.
Description.
General colour dark brown; head, scape, pedicel, humeral region and base of femora and tibiae yellow. Antennae reaching subapex of elytra, densely setose; flabellum of antennomere III twice the length of stem; flabellum of antennomere IV and V 2.5x longer than stem; flabellum of antennomere VI about 4x longer than stem; flabellum of antennomere VII about 3x longer than stem; flabella of antennomeres VIII
–
X about 2.5x longer than respective stem. Elytra: subparallel, 8x longer than pronotum; reticulation vestigial and hardly identifiable, with four elytral costae. Legs: slender, elongate; trochanters tubular; femora and tibiae elongate, femora subparallel, tibiae clavate. Male genitalia bilaterally symmetrical; exposed portion of median lobe subequal in length of parameres, rounded apically; folds in the basal inner margin of median lobe strongly developed, only present in basal third of exposed portion of median lobe, membranous, with apices acuminate; apices of parameres hooked; phallobase elongate, 1.5 x longer than parameres, lateral margins subparallel, posterior margin round, median suture absent (
Figure 24
).
Length (pronotum+elytra
):
4.5 mm
.
Width (across humerus
):
1.3 mm
.
Distribution.
Pará
,
Brazil
(
Figure 25
).
Type
locality.
Marabá,
Pará
,
Brazil
.