Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077 Author Peck, Stewart B. Author Cook, Joyce text Zootaxa 2011 2011-10-28 3077 1 1 118 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3077.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1 1175­5334 5243536 Pinodytes tuolumne Peck & Cook , new species ( Figs. 27 , 224 , 249–256 ) Type material. Holotype : male ( SBPC ). UNITED STATES . California : Tuolumne Co. , Harden Flat , 37°48.71’N 119°56.6’W , 3780’ elev., 14-JUL-2005 , A.R. Cline collr., ex. Berleseate . Paratypes (5). UNITED STATES . California : Tuolumne Co. , Yosemite NP , Tioga Rd. , 9.0miE Crane Flat , 18.V.1976 , 7100’, A. Newton. M. Thayer , Ber. squirrel middens & litter, fir forest, 5 ( FMNH ) . Material examined . We have examined 6 specimens . Distribution. Specimens ( Fig. 224 ) are known only from Tuolumne County, California , on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in and near Yosemite National Park. Diagnostic description . Total length 1.64 mm ; greatest width 0.88 mm . Reddish brown; oval in shape ( Fig. 27 ). Head . Finely, sparsely punctate; a pair of larger punctures on vertex; shining, with microsculpture of transverse lines on vertex. Eyes absent. Antenna ( Fig. 249 ) with antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, 2 wider than 3; antennomere 5 larger than 4 and 6; antennomere 7 longer but not wider than 8; antennomeres 9 and 10 each with a single sensory vesicle indicated apically by a protruding flange. Pronotum . With scattered fine punctures, a few larger punctures at base and apex; shining; completely covered with substriate microsculpture. Widest at base, sides slightly rounded and narrowing to apex; apical margin emarginate; basal margin broadly, weakly emarginate; apical angles rounded, basal angles more narrowly rounded. Elytra . Punctation fine, serially arranged but not impressed; punctures joined by fine transverse strioles. Joined elytra slightly wider than pronotum; widest at base; nearly parallel in basal one-half, narrowing to apex; weakly serrate laterally. Legs . Protibia ( Fig. 250 ) slender; with spines apically and near base of outer margin; apical one-half of inner margin finely, densely spinose. Mesotibia ( Fig. 251 ) slender, weakly curved; strongly spinose apically, on outer margin, and apical one-third of inner margin. Metatibia ( Fig. 252 ) moderately elongate, curved in male, widened in apical three-fifths; spinose apically, two spines on ventral face; apical one-half of inner margin with widely spaced fine spines. Metafemur ( Fig. 252 ) moderately slender. Male protarsomeres ( Fig. 250 ) expanded, bearing elongate setae laterally and thin, broad, colorless phanerae ventrally. Mesotarsomeres without phanerae. Venter . Mesoventrite ( Fig. 256 ) carinate; longitudinal carina depressed at middle; with toothlike expansion in anterior one-half; not excavated, but with a small depression behind transverse carina. Male genitalia . Median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs. 253, 254 ) broad, with narrow, flattened apex. Inverted internal sac ( Fig. 254 ) with cluster of spines. Parameres ( Figs. 253, 254 ) elongate, broad, extending beyone apex of median lobe; with a small flange on inner margin before apex; each bearing two well separated setae before apex. Spermatheca . Elongate ( Fig. 255 ), bulbous at apex. Etymology. The name tuolumne , a noun in apposition, refers to the type locality of this species in Tuolumne Co., California .