A Second Species ofCarinodulaGordon, Pakaluk, and Ślipiński (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Microweiseinae: Carinodulini)
Author
Bares, Hannah M.
Author
Ivie, Michael A.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2015
2015-12-31
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4
739
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-69.4.739
journal article
10.1649/0010-065x-69.4.739
1938-4394
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Carinodula chiapanensis
Bares and Ivie
,
new species
Type Specimens.
Holotype
♂
,
allotype
♀
, and
seven paratypes
(
4 ♀♀
,
3♂♂
) labeled:
MEXICO
:
Chiapas
/
2km
SE
Custepec
,
1520m
/
15.72099° N
,
92.95054°W
/
17MAY2008
;
LLAMA
#Wm-A-02-1/ sifted mesophyll litter. Six
paratypes
(
2 ♀♀
,
4 ♂♂
) labeled:
MEXICO
:
Chiapas
/
3km
SE Custepec
,
1700m
/
15.71604°N
92.93835°W
/
17MAY2008
;
LLAMA
# Wm-A-02-2/sifted mesophyll litter. One partial specimen from the type locality is not included in the type series. [In the
LLAMA
codes, “Wm” indicates Maxi-Winkler extraction; “A” indicates Mexico; the two-digit number indicates site number and the final digit the transect number (Longino and Anderson 2014).]
Fig. 10.
Distribution of
Carinodula
species
in Chiapas,
Mexico.
Holotype
male and
allotype
female deposited in the collection of the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de
México
, DF,
Mexico
.
Paratypes
deposited in:
Montana State
University Entomology Collection
,
Bozeman
,
MT
,
USA
;
National Museum of Natural History
,
Washington
,
DC
,
USA
;
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
,
San Cristóbal
de las
Casas
,
CH
, Mexico
;
Australian National Insect Collection,
Canberra
,
Australia
;
and The Natural History Museum,
London
,
UK
.
Diagnosis.
Carinodula chiapanensis
is characterized by the defined anterior face on the prosternum (
Fig. 4
), truncate postcoxal lines on ventrite I (
Fig. 9
), and the shape of the aedeagus (
Fig. 6
) and spermathecal capsule (
Fig. 5
). The new species has an 11-segmented antenna, lacks pronotal pits, and has four tarsomeres, placing it in
Carinodula
, the latter two characters separating it from the other genera of the tribe. The 11-segmented antenna is shared only with the Asian
Carinodulina
Ślipiński and Jadwiszczak.
Description.
With the characters of the tribe and genus. Length
1.30–1.45 mm
. Body about 1.84–2.00X longer than wide, widest at middle (
Figs. 1–2
). Color yellowish brown to light brown, appendages lighter in color. Vestiture of semidecumbent, white hairs; hairs relatively long, distinctly visible at 10X magnification. Punctures on head smaller than on pronotum, separated by more than diameter of puncture; punctures on elytron slightly larger than on pronotum, separated by diameter of puncture or slightly more. Pronotum
0.37–0.44 mm
long,
0.52–0.62 mm
wide, about 0.68–0.72X longer than wide. Elytra
0.89–0.98 mm
long, about 2.22–2.40X longer than pronotum. Pronotum with lateral edge moderately crenulate. Prosternum with defined anterior face and intercoxal process relatively narrow, widened apically, procoxal cavities widely open (
Fig. 4
). Ventrite I with truncate postcoxal lines (
Fig. 9
). Male with median patch of setae on ventrite I (
Fig. 9
). Male aedeagus as in
Fig. 6
, siphon (penis) as in
Fig. 8
. Spermathecal capsule as in
Fig. 5
.
Etymology.
The species name
chiapanensis
is an adjective derived from the name of the home mountains of the species, the Sierra Madre de
Chiapas
.
Habitat and Distribution.
All
C. chiapanensis
specimens were collected with Maxi-Winklers from sifted leaf litter at two sites located about 2–3 kilometers southeast of the small town of Custepec in the Sierra Madre de
Chiapas
(
Fig. 10
). The localities are at mid-elevations (
1,520
–1,700
m
) in a combination of old-growth and second-growth wet evergreen mesophyll forest (Longino and Anderson 2014).
Carinodula campbelli
was collected in the Central
Chiapas
Highlands (
Fig. 10
) north of the Valle Central, which separates the two localities.