A new species and new records of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) from Brazil
Author
Brazil, A new species and new records of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) from
text
Journal of Natural History
2023
2023-01-25
56
45 - 48
2065
2074
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2022.2157775
1464-5262
7618635
185B257D-F0E6-4921-BD3E-4346031B7F28
Cryptolestes spectabilis
Thomas, 2002a
Material examined
Brazil
,
Amazonas
,
Barcelos
,
17 June 2010
, J
.A. Rafael, P.
Dias
and
R
.
Machado
(legs.) (
2 m
#, 2 f#,
INPA
)
.
New records
Previously recorded from
Ecuador
(
Thomas 2002a
). Herein, two pairs of
C. spectabilis
collected in Amazonas represent the first state and country record of this species in
Brazil
.
Description of male aedeagus
(
Figure 2
(f)).
Tegmen subquadrate at base; apex moderately setose; apical angles glabrous. Parameres large, transverse, with lateral margins rounded and bearing a long apical seta; apexes glabrous, narrowly rounded and closely separated from each other, conjunctly triangular; surface covered with short basal setae.
Description of female.
As hypothesised by
Thomas (2002a)
, the female of
C. spectabilis
is quite similar to the male except for having an unmodified antennal scape and pedicel. Females can be easily associated with males by the
1.4 mm
body length and
0.5 mm
body width at mid-elytra, as well as the light brown head and pronotum which contrast strongly with the dark brown to piceous elytra.