Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Subfamily Peloniinae O (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IX. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Muisca S
Author
Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston
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Muisca testacea
(
KLUG
,
1842) (
Figs 2-13
, 79, 97, 123, 155)
Enoplium testacea
KLUG, 1842: 367
.
Lectotype
. Gender not known. Here designated.
Brazil
(ZMHB). There is evidence (body size measurements) in Klug’s description that the original description of this species is based on more than one specimen. However, Klug did not specify which of the specimens before him should be the name baerer of this species. Therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the
ICZN (1999)
and designate a
lectotype
and
paralectotype
for this nominal species.
CORPORAAL 1950: 284
. EKIS (now OPITZ), 1975: 56 (New Status, New Synonymy was erroneously noted after Klug’s species name).
D i a g n o s i s: Funicular antennomeres 4-6 are infuscated only in members of
M. testacea
and
M. variabilis
. At this time, only the males of these two species are separable using characteristics of the aedeagus (compare
Figs 123, 124
).
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length
4.5 mm
; width
1.7 mm
. Form: As in
Fig. 155
. Color: Testaceous, except capitulum dark brown. Head: Funicular antennomeres subfiliform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitulum longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular (
Fig. 6
), antennomere 11 obovate; frons wider than width of eye (EW/FW 21/30). Thorax: Pronotum (
Figs 5
, 79) oblong (PW/PL 70/80), side margin with well-developed tubercle, disc uniformly punctate; elytral asetiferous punctation striate to distal 2/3
rd
of epipleural region, near sutural margin punctured end at about distal 1/2 (EL/EW 220/70). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; posterior margin of 6
th
visible sternite concave; aedeagus, phallic apex as in
Fig. 123.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 4.5-8.0 mm; width
1.7-2.8 mm
. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were captured during April and December.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig.97
): In addition to the
type
, I examined
19 specimens
:
Brazil
:
Estado
do
Minas Gerais
,
Passa Quatro
,?-
XII-1972
,
F. M. Oliveira
;
Matusinhos
,
3-IV-1885
,
E. Gounelle
;
Estado
do
Rio de Janeiro
,
Nova Friburgo
,?-
II-1884
,
P. Germain. Specimens
are deposited in
ANSP
,
MNHN
,
MCZN
,
WOPC
, and
ZMHB
.