Revision of the Neotropical genus Alloraphes Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2013
3750
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549
568
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3750.5.7
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Alloraphes magnus
Franz
(
Figs. 12
,
26
,
67
,
68
)
Alloraphes magnus
Franz, 1980a: 215
.
Type
material.
Holotype
:
Brazil
(São Paulo):
♀, three labels (
Fig. 67
): "Barueri, Sao Paulo / Brasij [sic!], lg. K. Lenko" with "No 10" on reverse side [white, printed; reverse handwritten in blue ink]; "
Alloraphes
/
magnus
/ m. / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed]; "
Holotypus
" [red, handwritten] (NHMW).
Remarks.
Alloraphes magnus
is known from a single female collected in the southern part of
Brazil
(
Fig. 68
j). It differs from all species of
Alloraphes
in the pronotum without even traces of lateral marginal carinae or edges, different shape of the mesoventral intercoxal process and the presence of an additional median carina within the asetose impressions of mesoventrite (
Fig. 26
). All other characters agree with those of
Alloraphes
, but basing only on a single female specimen it is not possible to clarify the taxonomic placement of this interesting and unusually large (BL
1.25 mm
) species. Examination of males and their genital characters may help solving this problem. Currently
A. magnus
should be treated as a
species inquirenda
, genus
incertae sedis
within
Cyrtoscydmini
, but certainly close to
Alloraphes
.