A description of Promanodes serafini gen. et sp. nov. from Baltic amber, with a review of related New Zealand Promanus Sharp, 1877 (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae)
Author
Kolibáč, Jiří
Moravian Museum, Department of Entomology, Hviezdoslavova 29 a, 627 00 Brno, Czech Republic. &
jkolibac@mzm.cz
Author
Schmied, Heiko
Institut für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften und Ressourcenschutz, Melbweg 42, 53127 Bonn, Germany. & teinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
schmied@uni-bonn.de
Author
Wappler, Torsten
teinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
twappler@uni-bonn.de
Author
Kubisz, Daniel
Muszeum Przyrodnicze, Sebastiana 9, 31 - 049 Kraków, Poland.
kubisz@muzeum.pan.krakow.pl
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-09-22
2620
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29
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2620.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2620.1.2
67695c71-eadd-4537-9e0f-4afd9dcdd94c
1175-5326
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CB226A22-5EA6-4151-B7C0-DE97C1F618A7
Promanus depressus
Sharp, 1877
(
Figs 17–22
,
25, 28, 32
)
Material examined.
Sex unknown: “
Promanus depressus
/
Type
D. S./ Riccarton, N.Zd.” [handwritten on the label with the
specimen
], “Type” [in red circle], “
New Zealand
”, “
Sharp Coll
./
1905
-313”.
Female
: “
Promanus depressus
/ 2nd. typ./ D. S./ Riccarton N.Zd.” [handwritten], “
New Zealand
”, “
Sharp Coll
./
1905
- 313”.
Sex unknown: “
Promanus depressus
/ var.?/
Dunedin N.Zd.
” [handwritten].
All specimens deposited in The Natural History Museum, London (
British Museum Natural History
). Note: The female type specimen was mechanically damaged. Remaining body parts were mounted in a drop of dimethyl hydantoin formaldehyde on a card and pinned together with labels.
Diagnosis.
Body length 6.8–7.8 mm; darkest of the species – dorsal surface dark brown to black; dorsal surface very finely pubescencent; head densely punctate at dorsal side; terminal joint of labial palps nearly cylindrical, weakly dilated towards apex; terminal joint of maxillary palps securiform; antenna 11-segmented, with distinct 3-segmented club; eyes distinctly elevated; gular area without wrinkles, nearly smooth; elytra with two carinae along suture, other carinae indistinct; anterior margin of mesosternum incised; wing with four veins in medial field, without wedge cell but with MP3-MP4 cross vein present; Rc oval, obliquely situated; tibia with several spines along outer side, and row of little spines along apex; female tergite VIII (pygidium) shallowly incised at base; sternite VIII shown in
Fig. 18
. Detailed description and illustrations of the species published by
Kolibáč (2005)
.