An overview of Scirtidae (Coleoptera) described by Antoine Joseph Jean Solier (1792 - 1851)
Author
Ruta, Rafał
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Zootaxa
2020
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Pseudomicrocara lunata
(
Solier, 1849
)
comb. nov.
(
Figs 2G
,
3G
,
11
)
Cyphon lunatum
Solier, 1849: 455
(terra typica:
Araucania
, Concepcion)
Helodes lunatus
Solier
:
Gemminger & von Harold 1869: 1618
Cyphon lunatum
:
Blackwelder 1944: 266
(checklist;
Chile
);
Moroni 1985: 174
(
Chile
, prov. de Nuble, Cordillera de Chillán; prov. de Concepción, Concepción; “
Araucania
”)
Cyphon lunatus
:
Pic 1914: 32
(checklist;
Chile
)
Contacyphon lunatus
:
Zwick
et al.
2013: 343
FIGURE 11.
Pseudomicrocara lunata
(
Solier, 1849
)
, lectotype, male genitalia. A) penis; B) tegmen; C) tergite VIII; D) tergite IX; E) sternite VIII; F) sternite IX. Scale bar = 0.25 mm.
Type material.
Lectotype
(present designation), “
Cyphon
\
lunatum Sol
\
Chili
” [handwritten with brown ink, prob- ably by Solier]; “9 \ 45” [handwritten on a green, round label].
The
specimen is missing most of the legs, its right elytron is damaged.
Description.
Male, body oblong oval, TL
4.7 mm
. Head, pronotum and scutellar shield orange, elytra orange with brownish-black oblique stripe in posterior 1/3, antennae, legs, and ventrum orange. Punctures on elytra separated by ca. 0.5 diameter of a puncture, punctures on pronotum sparser than on elytra, separated by ca. 1.0 diameter. Anterolateral angles of pronotum widely rounded, not projecting. Penis (L
0.59 mm
,
W
0.29
mm) with long pala, trigonium subtriangular, rounded at apex, parameroids sinuate, hooked at apices; tegmen (L
0.62 mm
,
W
0.35
mm, styli not included) with relatively wide parameres, apices rounded, styli present, sinuate; tergite VIII (L
0.48 mm
,
W
0.53
mm) with subtrapezoidal apical plate, covered with setae, apical margin with sparse setae similar like setae present on plate, apodemes short; tergite IX (L
0.40 mm
,
W
0.47
mm) with transversely rectangular apical plate, apical plate membranous, covered with sparse setae, apical margin with very short and dense setae; sternite VIII (L
0.23 mm
,
W
0.32
mm) v-shaped, with few setae at apices; sternite IX (L
0.45 mm
,
W
0.31
mm) suboval, with rounded apical margin, consisting of two hemisternites, apical margin with few sparse, relatively long setae.
Remarks.
Solier studied more than a single specimen of this species as ranges of measurements were noted in the original description (
Solier 1849
), therefore a
lectotype
is designated in order to preserve the stability of nomenclature by selecting one specimen as the sole, name-bearing type of the taxon.