Annotated checklist of the Blennidus subgenus Agraphoderus species from Peru with description of B. bombonensis n. sp. and synonymic notes (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae)
Author
Allegro, Gianni
Author
Giachino, Pier Mauro
text
Zootaxa
2015
4000
1
1
48
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4000.1.1
507a3784-35f5-46f5-9492-e0884a502f40
1175-5326
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Blennidus
(
Agraphoderus
)
nigritulus
(
Straneo, 1993
)
(
Figs. 32
,
70
,
106
)
Ogmopleura nigritula
Straneo, 1993
: 383
Blennidus nigritulus
(
Straneo, 1993
)
:
Lorenz, 2005a
: 263
Blennidus nigritulus
(
Straneo, 1993
)
:
Lorenz, 2005b
: 681
Blennidus nigritulus
(
Straneo, 1993
)
: Giachino & Allegro, 2011: 23
Type
locality.
The ♂ HT is labelled, in Straneo’s own hand, “loc. 14”, which likely means, by analogy with all other specimens of TS and according to
Straneo (1993)
, “
Perou
,
30 km
S Cerro de Pasco,
4150 m
”.
Examined material.
HT ♂ (CMa at
MRSN
); 4 PTT ♂ and 3 PTT ♀ (CMa, CSt);
1 ♂
(CMa). One PT ♂ in CMa actually belongs to
B. curtatus
. One specimen of
B. nigritulus
is included in the TS of
angularis
Straneo, 1985
(=
B. rectangulus
syn. nov.
) (CMa) and 6 others in the TS of
B. rectangulus
(
Straneo, 1993
)
(CMa, CSt).
Note.
This species is mainly distinguished by the distinctive morphology of aedeagus, as it is very similar in external morphology to a few species from central
Peru
(
B. rectangulus
,
B. euphaenops
,
B. vereshaginae
, etc.). An aedeagus of
B. nigritulus
is attached on separate cards by two specimens of
B. inca
(CMa, CSt), due to an evident label inversion.
Distribution.
All the recorded specimens are from the same area (30 Km South of Cerro de Pasco), which is probably a border area between Depts. Pasco and Junin.
Habitat.
The altitude data reported on the labels (
4,150 m
a.s.l.) suggest a preference of this species for the Andean grassland.