Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 7. Genus Nothocyphon, new genus
Author
Zwick, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2015
3981
3
301
359
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3981.3.1
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1175-5326
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Nothocyphon soror
,
n. sp.
(
Figs. 104–108
)
Type
material:
1♂
holotype
:
42.10S
146.07E
4 km
SSE of Mt. Rufus
800m
TAS
26–28 Jan 1980
Lawrence & Weir (
ANIC
).
Paratypes
:
1♂
: Strahan Tasmania J. Armstrong (
ANIC
).
NSW
:
1♂
: Wentworth Fs. (
SAMA
).
1♂
: Sydney \ K.K.S. \
Cyphon
fenestratus Blckb. Sydney \ K249505 (AMS).
Habitus.
Elongate oval, BL
2.4 mm
, BL/BW ~1.6. Colour of upper side varies (probably with specimen age) from uniformly yellowish (the
holotype
) to head and centre of pronotum dark brown, remainder brown (specimen from Strahan).
Male
. T8 unmodified, S8 not observed, of T9 only the slender apodemes are sclerotized (
Figs. 104, 105
). S9: base not noticed, caudally deeply and widely divided into two lobes with numerous straight setae (
Fig. 106
).
Tegmen and parameres form a strong sclerotized ring (
Figs. 106, 108
). The narrow anterior part lies over the penis, the wider caudal portion with spreading transparent wings and heavy dark knobs that meet medially lies beneath the penis. Penis (
Figs. 106, 107
) with long narrow pala which is anteriorly a little expanded. Penis width more than doubles where trigonium and parameroids originate. The trigonium is a large spade-shaped plate with gently serrate sides and shallowly excised caudal edge. The straight slender flat parameroids lie dorsally from the trigonium, only their bare externally rounded tips project.
Female.
Unknown.
Notes and etymology
. The flat penis, the ring-shaped tegmen and parameres and the position of the parameroids dorsally (instead of laterally) from the trigonium suggest a close relationship with
N. frater
. The name
soror
(Latin: sister) was chosen to underline this. The habitat of the rare species is unknown. It shares the wide range from TAS to NSW with its stream-inhabiting relative,
N. frater
.