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
13ca0acb-0db1-4ee9-bb85-a90cdc65dcf3
1175-5326
240978
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Nothocyphon nungatta
,
n. sp.
(
Fig. 49
)
Type
material:
1
♂
holotype
, 1 possibly conspecific ♀ (no
type
status) originally mounted on one card:
NSW
nr
Nungatta
Creek [~
37.19S
149.43E
] 58 88083N 557 20893E [sic!] 13.2.0 0 \ J&R Miller (
SAMA
).
Habitus
. Elongate oval, BL
2.8mm
, BL/BW ~1.7. Granular punctures on head fine, a little larger on pronotum, spaced, integument shining. Normal elytral punctures fine and dense, although distinctly larger than on pronotum. Dorsal face dark brown, head darkest. Antennal flagellum infuscate, flagellar segments barely
2x
as long as wide at apex. Pilosity dark, semi-erect.
Male
. Segments 8 and 9 typical of the group, unmodified, lobes of S9 visible under the penis.
Pala
longer than half total length of penis, the lateral sclerites lean against each other but diverge again slightly anteriorly. The parameroids are simple flat lobes a little longer than the trigonium. Laterally they are intimately connected with surrounding membranes. The trigonium narrows caudally, it is tongue-shaped, the apex is bluntly rounded and armed with few small denticles. The tegmen (torn on one side) is a narrow sclerite band laterally supporting large complex parameres. The curved rod-like base divides into a medial lobe with huge teeth separated by deep rounded notches; the apex of this portion seems to taper dorsally from the penis. Near the forking point the basal rod supports a rounded unarmed medial process and a curved lateral one with an apical row of stout teeth (mp in
Fig. 49
). The outer paramere lobe is membranous except for a small distal area supporting a medially directed short process with a crown of irregular sharp teeth (
Fig. 49
, lp).
Female
(presumed). Resembles the male. Abdominal sternites unmodified, the rods of S8 anteriorly separate. The ovipositor is of the standard build, bursellar sclerite or prehensor not found.
Note.
Structural details of the parameres remain unknown, the complex folding of the two partly overlapping lobes was not disentangled.
Etymology.
Named after the
type
locality; a noun in apposition.