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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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5353544
1942-1354
5353544
772BDDF2-AD14-4950-B3B3-D6A2C9E403C2
18.
Calloeneis bennetti
Gordon
Calloeneis bennetti
Gordon 1978: 216
.
Description. Male
. Length
1.7 mm
, width
1.6 mm
; dorsal surface shiny except head faintly alutaceous. Color black (
Fig. 77
); head with vertex, median area of frons dark brown, lateral area of frons next to eye, clypeus yellowish brown; ventral surface yellow except mesosternum reddish brown, prosternum, metasternum dark brown; abdomen yellow with median 1/3 of basal ventrite brown. Head with dense punctures separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, meso-, metasternal punctures distinct, separated by about a diameter or less; basal abdominal ventrite without visible punctures, ventrites 2, 3 finely punctured, ventrites 3, 4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head slightly widened from middle of frons to clypeal apex, clypeal apex slightly rounded (
Fig. 78
); 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 5/8 as long as paramere, widened anterior to base, then abruptly tapered to acute, slightly emarginate apex; paramere gradually widened from base to apex (
Fig. 79, 80
); penis lost.
Female.
Similar to male except head entirely brown, genitalia with ramus of spermathecal capsule bulbous, cornu narrowed from base to abruptly rounded apex (
Figure
33
in
Gordon, 1978
).
Variation.
Length
1.5 to 1.7 mm
, width
1.4 to 1.6 mm
., male head may be entirely yellow with lateral 1/3 of pronotum yellow.
Type
locality.
Trinidad
,
Mayaro
.
Type
depository.
USNM.
Geographical distribution.
Trinidad
.
Specimens examined.
6.
Trinidad
.
Imperial College,
Mayaro
; Morne Bleu, St. Augustine.
Remarks.
This is another dorsally black species separable from other such species only by examination of male genitalia.