A revision of Macromalthinus Pic, 1919 with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Chauliognathinae)
Author
Biffi, Gabriel
Author
Constantin, Robert
text
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2018
Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo
2018-11-29
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.58
journal article
10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.58
1807-0205
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Macromalthinus globuliventris
Brancucci, 1981
(
Fig. 51
)
Macromalthinus globuliventris
Brancucci, 1981a: 266
;
Constantin & Chaboo, 2016: 200
.
Material examined:
PARATYPE
:
PERU
. Valle Chanchamayo,
800 m
,
13.VIII.1951
, Weyrauch leg. (
1 ♂
NHMB
) (
Fig. 51
).
Other specimens:
“17128, Amazon, Degand,
Fry
coll, 1905-100” (
1 ♂
BMNH
)
;
“34465, Amazon,
Fry
coll, 1905-100” (
1 ♂
BMNH
)
.
Differential diagnosis:
Head black; antenna brown, except antennomeres I-III and VII-VIII (sometimes IX), testaceous; pronotum pale yellow, elytra black with apical yellow patches; males: fore femur swollen, with rounded ventral tooth; ventrite IV with a pair of protuberances near posterior margin; ventrite VIII compressed apically, with longitudinal ridge and an arched, left transversal ridge; aedeagus with right prolongation of tegmen broadly projected dorsally; left setiferous prolongation vestigial, with a tuft of setae; females: abdominal ventrite VII long, posterior margin slightly projected.
It differs from all the other species by having a pair of protuberances on ventrite IV of males.
Distribution:
Peru
. The non-type studied specimens are labelled only as ‘Amazon’, and no other explicit locality information is available (
Fig. 66
).