South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), part XX: systematic revision of South American Calloeneis Grote (Cryptognathini)
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Northern Plains Entomology PO Box 65 Willow City, ND 58384, USA
Author
F, Guillermo González
Nocedal 6455 La Reina Santiago, Chile
Author
Hanley, Guy A.
Northern Plains Entomology Minot, ND
text
Insecta Mundi
2020
2020-05-29
2020
766
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25
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5353544
1942-1354
5353544
772BDDF2-AD14-4950-B3B3-D6A2C9E403C2
19.
Calloeneis alexandra
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
.
Length
1.7 mm
, width
1.6 mm
; dorsal surface shiny except head strongly alutaceous. Color black (
Fig. 81
); head yellow; pronotum with lateral 1/6 yellow (
Fig. 82
); venter yellow except prosternum, mesosternum reddish yellow, metasternum dark brown. Head with punctures not visible; pronotal punctures small separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by one to three times a diameter; prosternal, mesosternal punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures small separated by about a diameter medially, absent in lateral 1/3; abdominal ventrite 1 impunctate, ventrites 2–4 with fine punctures not clearly visible; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons about as wide as eye, clypeus widened, clypeal apex arcuate (
Fig. 82
); eye canthus short, about half width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side curved, extended from apex of intercoxal process to lateral margin of prosternum. Epipleuron not descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite curved, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia with penis guide as long as paramere, parallel sided in basal 3/4, apical 1/4 widened, rounded laterally, apex deeply emarginate; paramere long, slender, apically rounded (
Fig. 83, 84
); penis robust, apical 1/5 abruptly narrowed, apically attenuate, basal capsule long, inner arm apically hooked, outer arm long, apex rounded (
Fig. 85
).
Female.
Similar to male except vertex of head brown, extreme lateral margin of pronotum faintly paler than disc. Genitalia with ramus of spermathecal capsule bulbous, cornu narrowed from base to abruptly rounded apex.
Variation.
Length
1.4 to 1.7 mm
, width
1.3 to 1.6 mm
.
Female
head often entirely dark brown.
Type material.
Holotype
male:
Taperina
,
Brazil
,
June
,
Acc. No.
2966. (
CMNH
).
Paratypes
, 31, 1,
Chapada
,
Brazil
,
Acc. No.
2966
;
3,
Corumba
,
Brazil
,
March
,
Acc.
2966
;
1,
Entre Rios
,
Brazil
,
Sept.
,
Acc. No.
2966
;
1,
Macura
,
Brazil
, Jan.,
Acc. No.
2966
;
8,
Rio de Jan.
,
July
,
Oct.
,
Acc. No.
2966
;
3,
Santarem
,
Brazil
,
Acc. No.
2966 (
CMNH
)
;
14,
BRAZIL
:
Am
,
Reserva Ducke
, 26kmNE
Manaus
,
Barbosa, G.V.
,
Plot
B
Malaise
5,
October 1995
, BMNH(E) 2003-84 (
BMNH
)
.
Remarks.
Male genitalia of this species are highly distinctive and must be examined for identification.