A Revised Catalog of the Species ofStenocratesBurmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini), with Descriptions of Three New Species from Peru and Brazil andStenocrates inpaiRatcliffe, 1978 Placed in Junior Synonymy withStenocrates popeiEndrödi, 1971
Author
Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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The Coleopterists Bulletin
2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-69.4.773
journal article
10.1649/0010-065x-69.4.773
1938-4394
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Stenocrates mimeomus
Ratcliffe
,
new species
(
Figs. 8–9
)
Type Material.
Holotype
labeled “
PERU
:
Madre de Dios
;/
Rio Tambopata Res
; 30 air/km.
SW Pto. Maldonado
,
290m
/
16-20 XI 1979
J. B. Heppner
/
8–9)
S
.
mimeomus
;
10–11)
S. mollis
.
subtropical moist forest” and with my red
holotype
label.
Allotype
female and
paratype
male each with same data and my red
allotype
label and yellow
paratype
label, respectively.
Holotype
and
allotype
deposited in the
US
National Museum
(
USNM
) (
Washington
,
DC
, currently at the
University
of
Nebraska
for offsite enhancement) and
one paratype
in the
B. C. Ratcliffe Collection
(
Lincoln, NE
,
USA
)
.
Description of
Holotype
.
Male. Length
18.4 mm
; width
8.8 mm
. Color black.
Head:
Frons on posterior half shiny, with sparse micropunctures, anterior half with small, dense punctures. Frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed, ridge in front of suture rounded, not carinulate either side of middle. Clypeus transversely rugose; apex weakly emarginate, narrowly reflexed, anterior face thickened. Interocular width equals 3.0 transverse eye diameters. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, club subequal in length to antennomeres 2–7.
Pronotum:
Surface shiny, nearly smooth, with sparse micropunctures in anterior angles and small field of large, dense punctures in posterior angles. Lateral margins with thick marginal bead, base without marginal bead.
Elytra:
Surface shiny, with punctate sutural stria and 2 pairs of distinct discal striae and less distinct pair of striae behind humerus; each stria comprised of moderately large, deep, closely adjacent punctures. First broad interval with irregular row of similar punctures, second broad interval with similar punctures on posterior third.
Pygidium:
Surface shiny, completely and densely punctate, punctures moderately large, glabrous. In lateral view, surface regularly convex.
Legs:
Protibia tridentate, basal tooth slightly removed from others teeth. Metatarsus slightly shorter than metatibia.
Venter:
Prosternal process columnar, long, thick, apex obliquely flattened into longitudinally suboval disc.
Parameres:
Form widest at about middle; apices elongate, slender, curving away from one another, and with preapical tooth (
Figs. 8–9
).
Allotype
.
Female. Length
19.3 mm
; width across humeri
8.8 mm
. The
allotype
does not differ significantly from the
holotype
.
Variation.
Males (
1 paratype
). Length
18.5 mm
; width across humeri
8. 6 mm
. The male
paratype
does not differ significantly from the
holotype
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin,
mimeomai
, meaning to imitate and is used here in reference to the fact that most
Stenocrates
species
are externally similar to one another.
Distribution.
Stenocrates mimeomus
is known only from Amazonian
Peru
.
Locality Records.
PERU
(3):
MADRE DE DIOS
(3); Tambopata National Reserve (30 air km SW Puerto Maldonado).
Temporal Distribution.
November (3).
Diagnosis.
Stenocrates mimeomus
does not key to anything in Endrödi (1985). The closest would be
Stenocrates mollis
Endrödi
from
French Guiana
, but the parameres are not the same (compare
Figs. 8–9 and 10–11
, especially the lateral views), the clypeal apex is not deeply emarginate nor sparsely rugopunctate, and the sides of the pronotum are not completely covered by punctures as in
S. mollis
. There is some similarity with
Stenocrates popei
Endrödi
based upon similarity of only the parameres, but even those are distinctly different (compare
Figs. 8
and
14
). Moreover, the ridge in front of the frontoclypeal suture is rounded and not carinulate either side of the middle as seen in
S. popei
.