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
14.
Calloeneis robyn
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
.
Length 2.0 mm, width
1.6 mm
; dorsal surface shiny; head slightly alutaceous. Color black; head yellow; pronotum yellow; elytron black except anterolateral angle yellow, yellow area diagonal from base posteriorly across callus to lateral margin (
Fig. 59
); venter yellow except median 1/2 of metasternum, apical 1/4 of epipleuron dark brown; abdomen brown except ventrite 5 yellow. Head with punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures small separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by up to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures fine, separated by less than a diameter, mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by about a diameter; metasternal punctures as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with fine punctures separated by up to three times diameter medially, ventrites 2–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons narrow, parallel sided, slightly wider than eye, clypeal apex weakly arcuate, nearly truncate (
Fig. 60
); 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 3/4 as long as paramere, slender, tapered from base to abruptly rounded apex; paramere slender, weakly curved, apex rounded (
Fig. 61, 62
); penis slender, apex briefly attenuate, basal capsule robust, inner arm narrowed to acutely rounded apex, outer arm short, tapered to rounded apex (
Fig. 63
).
Female.
Unknown.
Variation.
Unknown.
Type material.
Holotype
male:
Guyana
,
Georgetown
,
Botanic
gdns.,
11.VI.1999
,
R.G. Booth
, BMNH (E) 2001-132 (
BMNH
).
Remarks.
This species is characterized by a mostly black elytron with contrasting yellow anterolateral macula.