And then there were six: a revision of the genus Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
Author
Chatzimanolis, Stylianos
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-20
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Phanolinopsis erythros
Chatzimanolis
,
new species
(
Figs. 2
,
8
,
14
,
28–30
,
43
)
Type
material
.
Holotype
, here designated, male, with labels: “Guat.[emala], Chim.[altenango],
5mi
. S. Acatenago,
2400m
,
2.ix.
[19]72, J. Helava” / “
Eugastus bicolor
Shr. Smetana
det. 1992”
/
“New genus? not
Eugastus
det. A. Davies” / “
Holotype
Phanolinopsis erythros
Chatzimanolis
, des. Chatzimanolis 2017”. In the collection of
CNC
.
Paratype
.
One, male, with labels: “
Panama
,
Veraguas
Prov.,
8km
W. Santa Fe, Cerro Tute, el.
3000ft
,
8°30’26’’N
81°6’49’’W
,
24–26.vii.1999
, malaise, J.B. Woolley 99/057” / “Duplicate ex series at
TAMU
(3), Field Museum Nat. His.” / “?
Eugastus
det. Newton 2002” / “
Paratype
Phanolinopsis erythros
Chatzimanolis
, des. Chatzimanolis 2017”. In the collection of
FMNH
.
Diagnosis.
Phanolinopsis erythros
is easily distinguished from other species of
Phanolinopsis
based on the bright red coloration of the head, pronotum, mesoscutellum, legs, and ventral side of the body. Additionally, the tip of the paramere in dorsal view is emarginate (flat or rounded in other species). This species obviously does not belong in
Philothalpus
Kraatz
(the current name for
Eugastus
Sharp
), which belongs in a different subtribe, despite the references made above on the labels (see
Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2005
and
Chani-Posse et al. 2017
for more details on
Philothalpus
).
Description.
Body length
13.8–14.2mm
. Head and pronotum bright red; elytra dark metallic blue-purple or blue-green. Mesoscutellum red with brown border; mouthparts, ventral surface of thorax and legs red to reddish brown; antennomeres red but antennomeres 4–11 with darker setae. Abdominal terga and sterna III–IV red; V–VII reddish brown with brown area medially; posterior 1/3 of segment VII and segment VIII orange. Head transverse, width: length ratio = 1.38. Epicranium with mainly transverse and few polygon-shaped microsculpture; with sparse micropunctures; with few large to medium-sized punctures around margin of head; and numerous medium-sized punctures in 3–4 rows from lateral margins to center and from posterior margin to center; center of epicranium impunctate. Eyes medium-sized, length of eyes / length of head ratio = 0.48, distance between eyes as wide as twice length of eye. Area between postmandibular ridge and eye (lateral side of head) wide, with transverse microsculpture; posterolateral corner of head not pointed. Antennomeres 1–11 longer than wide. Neck with micropunctures, microsculpture, and with many small punctures. Pronotum subquadrate, width: length ratio = 0.92; surface of pronotum uniformly covered with sparse micropunctures; appearing shiny. Pronotum with few large punctures around margin; disc of pronotum with four large punctures at center, each one delimiting corner of square. Elytra with large to medium-sized punctures (about 10–11 punctures / elytron width); distance punctures from almost confluent to 0.5 times width of puncture; punctures more clustered together near lateral margins. Elytra appearing shiny; with sparse polygon-shaped microsculpture. Abdominal terga with at least 3–4 rows of medium-sized punctures each. Male secondary sexual structures with sternum VIII having shallow emargination medially; sternum IX with deep U-shaped emargination medially. Females unknown. Aedeagus as in
Figs. 28–30
; in dorsal view paramere wide, parallel-sided, with emarginate apex; paramere shorter and narrower than median lobe; in lateral view paramere slightly concave; paramere with peg setae as in
Fig. 30
. Median lobe in dorsal view narrow, converging to pointed apex, with two broad teeth apically; in lateral view becoming narrower and elongate near apex.
FIGURES 28–30.
Aedeagus of
P.
erythros
Chatzimanolis.
28. Dorsal view. 29. Lateral view. 30. Detail of paramere, ventral view.
Distribution.
Known from the department of
Chimaltenango
in
Guatemala
and the province of
Veraguas
in
Panama
.
Habitat.
Collected with malaise traps from elevation between
914–2400m
in cloud forests.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is derived from the Greek word ερΥΘρός (red) and refers to the coloration of the head and pronotum. The epithet is treated as a noun in apposition.