A revision of the genus Macrolygistopterus Pic, 1929 (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calochromini)
Author
Ferreira, Vinicius S.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.4.2
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Macrolygistopterus grandjeani
Pic, 1930
(
Figs. 5
,
14
,
23
,
31
,
39
,
45
)
Macrolygistopterus grandjeani
Pic, 1930a
: 83
(original description);
Kleine, 1933
: 104
(catalogue);
Blackwelder, 1945
: 351
(catalogue).
Type
material.
Macrolygistopterus grandjeani
:
syntype
, male, Durango,
Mexico
, hereby designated as
lectotype
, deposited at
MNHN
.
Diagnosis.
Pronotum transverse, rectangular, elytra blue, subparallels, both densely pubescent, short rostrum.
Redescription.
Head black, prolonged in short rostrum, as long as sum of antennomeres I+II+III (
Fig. 14
); coronal suture widened close to antennal insertion; median interocular distance of
3x
width of eye. Mandibles curved, longer than labrum, orange. Maxillary palp with palpomere I short, ca. 1/3 the length of II; palpomere II elongated, as long as the sum of III+IV; palpomere IV securiform. Antennae with seven antennomeres (others missing), scape conic, 1/3 the shorter than III; pedicel minute, ca. 1/4 the length of scape; antennomere III as long as I+II; antennomere IV slightly larger and longer than III; antennomeres V to VII gradually shorter.
Pronotum rectangular, slightly wider than longer (6:7), with rounded angles and posterior angles pronounced and lateral margins not pronounced, densely pubescent, orange, with a wide longitudinal black stripe; pair of longitudinal elevations parallels, slightly larger in basal third, with pair of oblique carinae starting from basal 2/4 (
Fig. 23
). Scutellum dark blue, transverse, subquadrate (
Figs. 5
,
31
).
Elytra subparallel, dehiscent, margins stout and pronounced, bluish black, pubescent. Arrangement of elytral costae: costae I and II region and costae III and IV fused in subapical region, each of the fusions continuing as a single costa, not reaching the apex.
Female ventrite VII transverse, laterally moderately pubescent, with a shallow and wide groove dividing the apex, forming two backwards divergent apices (
Fig. 39
).
Width at humeri> 3.1mm. Elytral length—13.0mm.
Distribution.
Durango,
Mexico
, only known by the
lectotype
(
Fig. 45
).
Examined material.
Durango,
Mexique
, 1♀ (
lectotype
) (
MNHN
).
Male unknown.