Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 7. Genus Nothocyphon, new genus
Author
Zwick, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2015
3981
3
301
359
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3981.3.1
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1175-5326
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Nothocyphon triangulum
,
n. sp.
(
Figs. 112, 113
)
Type
material
:
1
♂
holotype
: Mt. Wellington
Tas.
Lea (
SAMA
).
Paratypes
:
1♂
with the same data as the
holotype
;
8♂
:
Cyphon
Tasmania 8801 Summit of Mt. Wellington Tas. (Lea) (
SAMA
).
1♂
:
42.41S
146.43
TAS
, National park, low bushes entrance to NP,
Feb. 1992
, C.Reid (naturally everted genitalia;
ANIC
).
1♂
:
42.40S
146.46E
TAS
, Mt. Field NP, Robert Tarn
1220m
,
7 Feb 1992
C.Reid on flowers;
1♂
:
42.40S
146.41E
TAS
2.5km
W Mt. Field NP c.
600m
,
6. Feb.1992
C.Reid on Nothofagus cunninghamii;
1♂
: Mt. Wellington
TAS
Lea Hobart Tasmania J.J.Walker (all
ANIC
);
1♂
: Hobart Tasmania J.J.Walker \ G.C.Champion coll. B.M. 1927-409 (
NHML
).
Habitus
. BL
1.6–1.8mm
, BL/BW ~1.7. Elongate oval, dorsal side entirely brown, head darkest, the sutural interval may have a reddish tinge. The semi-erect pilosity is brownish. Head with fine, pronotum with slightly coarser dense granular punctation, normal dense punctures on elytra little larger.
Male
. Segments 8 and 9 as for the genus, the pilose lobes of S9 large. The slender penis is waisted between the wide truncate front edge of pala and the transverse bridge where parameroids and trigonium originate. The trigonium is flat, triangular. The widest point is near the base where blunt lateral angles project over the base of parameroids. The convergent sides are straight and meet at a blunt angle of about 40°. Sides of triangle with small teeth. The finger-shaped slightly curved parameroids are a little longer than the trigonium, their apices almost meet behind the trigonium tip. The tegmen is a narrow sclerite bracket supporting the short parameres. Each is an elongate somewhat twisted sclerite with several large hooks along the sides.
FIGURES 112–114.
Nothocyphon triangulum
-group, males.
N. triangulum
, penis, tegmen and parameres in dorsoventral views: 112, ventral view, with contour of T8 in the background; 113, dorsal view, with lobes of S9.—
N. radula
, 114, penis, tegmen, parameres and S9 in dorsal view. 112, 113 to the same scale.
Female
. Unknown.
Note
. Endemic to Tasmania. The
holotype
has partly extruded genitalia. The large lobes of S9 stand in vertical position laterally from the penis, like shields. The penis base is straight, the parameroids and the trigonium curve gently into opposite directions. Parameres not visible.
Etymology
. The specific name describes the shape of the trigonium and is a Latin noun in apposition,
triangulum
, a triangle.