Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 9. The relations of Australasian Ypsiloncyphon species to their Asian congeners, additions, mainly to Petrocyphon and Prionocyphon, and a key to Australian genera of Scirtinae
Author
Zwick, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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Prionocyphon latusmandibularis
Watts, 2010b
(
Table 2
)
Material studied.
1♀
:
AUSTRALIA
Tas.
track off
Mt. Barrow rd.
780m
15
-
17.11.1980
Nothofagus
etc.
A. Newton
,
M.Thayer
/
Pyrethrin
fogging tree ferns;
1♂
,
1♀
: SW
Tasmania
,
Lower Gordon
R.
42.31S
145.45E
42.32S
145.47E
Howard
,
Hill
, ... \
H.E.C. Survey
3R.
1308
Jan.
1978
Ross
(
ANIC
)
;
1♀
:
Florentine Valley
TAS
White Gum Flora Res
.
3 Feb. 1972
C.Reid beating rainf.trees; 2♂: 41.18S 145.36E TAS Saxons Road
17 Jan.-1 Feb.1983
I.Naumann/J.Cardale ex pantrap (all ANIC). 2♀: Mt.
Wellington Tas:
Lea
\
Cyphon
8813
Tasmania
;
1♀
: 3525 \
Tasmania
A.Simson
(all
SAMA
).
P. latusmandibularis
is an isolated species with many unique characters (
Watts 2010b
) and stands by itself. It is derived in possessing prominent projections of the frontoclypeus but shares none of the apomorphies characteristic of the following species (
Table 2
).
Female.
Recognized by the enlarged mandibles. Sternites 3−6 connate and forming deep stiff trough to which S7 is hinged. Antecosta of S7 with two paramedian knobs resembling short apodemes. S6 with central oblique porus with strongly sclerotized dark walls. Ovipositor normal, coxites and stylites slender. Apodemes of S8 slightly sinuous, lyre-shaped, at front end approaching but not visibly connected. Short section of gonoduct annulate ('concertinated') and internally covered with what seem to be dense microtrichia or hair-like spinules. Bursal sclerite not observed, the bursella itself hyaline, surface with several large areas of smooth cuticle with microridges along edges.