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Author
Lumen, Ryan
Author
Kamdńskd, Marcdn J.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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Eurynotus barbosai
Koch
(
Figs 3D
,
7A
,
8J
)
Eurynotus
(
Eurynotus
)
barbosai
Koch 1954a: 284
.– Koch 1956: 27; Kamiński 2016: 236.
Diagnosis:
Eurynotus barbosai
is most similar to
E. thermarum
and
E. graniderma
.All three species are differentiable from other congeners by size as they are the smallest (length
8–10 mm
; width
4.75–7.5 mm
) group within
Eurynotus
. Additionally, these species (along with
E. capensis
) possess distinct modifications to the male mid - and/or hindlegs (small setose excavations on the tibiae).
Eurynotus barbosai
is sharply separable from the most similar species (
E. thermarum
and
E.graniderma
) by the cuticular surface (shining and relatively smooth in
E. barbosai
versus dull and microtuberculated in the other two) and with additional micropunctation in the inter - stices between punctures (
E. thermarum
and
E. graniderma
instead with microtuberculation, or without additional specific intersti - tial structures, respectively). Additionally, while all three species are localized around north–north -eastern South Africa,
Eurynotus barbosai
is, as of this revision, the only species with a distribution east of Eswatini and into Mozambique.
Redescription:
Length
9–10mm
5–5.5 mm
. Head: Punctures sep - arated by ≥1 puncture diameter. Mentum without apical notch. Eye with deeply impressed sulcus around margin. Prothorax: Pronotum smooth, shiny, and finely punctate; larger punctures sep - arated by ≥1 puncture diameter with micropunctures in interstices. Hypomeron shallowly and coarsely punctate; lightly sculptured/ wrinkled. Pterothorax: Elytral interval X terminating between hind coxae and elytra apex. Epipleuron wider than width of elytral intervals 9 + 10. Elytral intervals obscured by epipleuron in ventral view.Dorsally shining and without microtuberculation. Abdomen: Punctate. Abdominal ventrite V finely punctate, punctures separ - ated by ≥1 puncture diameter without larger, setigerous punctures intermixed and without micropunctation. Females without me - dian apical notch. Legs: Male mid - and hindlegs with setose patch or groove on tibiae. Female legs unmodified. Tarsi with golden setae. Males: pro/meso tarsi expanded with large, ventral, tomen - tose pads. Male terminalia: Parameres broad and parallel, truncate at apex with small divot made by medially inflexed parameres. Female terminalia: Bursa copulatrix sac -like and without sclerites, spermatheca thick and coiled, accessory gland and accessory pouch present.
Material examined:
Holotype
(TMNH): ‘Lour, Marques Jan. Rev. H.A, Junod; 3864;
Eurynotus sp
ign.;
Holotype
No: 1849
Eurynotus
barbosai KOCH’.
Additional Material:
TMNH: ‘
Marracuene’
, ‘SOUTH AFRICA, NATAL
Ndumu Game Reserve
26.54S
32.15E
, 05–07.xi.1984.
R
. Oberprieler’
.
Distribution:
Mozambique and South Africa (Fig. 10).