Revision of the scarab subfamily Aclopinae Blanchard (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Argentina and Chile
Author
Ocampo, Federico C.
Author
Mondaca, José
text
Zootaxa
2012
3409
1
29
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.210632
d241173d-b901-4ba7-878d-04546e8d1200
1175-5326
210632
Gracilaclopus caceresi
Ocampo & Mondaca
,
new species
(
Figs. 8–9
,
24
,
31
)
Diagnosis.
This species is distinguished from the other species of
Gracilaclopus
by the following combination of characters: labral apex deeply indented in middle; head black, body light brown with
scutellum
same color as elytra (light brown); pronotum with a transversal row of setae in middle on each side of disc, setae sparse, long; size <
5 mm
; male genitalia as
Fig. 24
.
FIGURES 8–9.
Gracilaclopus caceresi
, male.
Description.
Holotype
male.
Length
4.07 mm
, width
1.57 mm
. Color: Head black, pronotum and elytra light brown; legs, antennae, and mouthparts brown; ventral surface brown.
Head
(
Fig. 8
): Frons flat on apical half, convex at base, surface sparsely punctate, glabrous. Clypeus strongly transverse; lateral margins oblique; anterior margin straight, slightly reflexed, frontal area of anterior margin oblique; frontoclypeal suture obsolete, surface densely punctate. Labral shape subrectangular in dorsal view apex strongly indented in middle, strongly reflexed, glabrous.
Pronotum
(
Fig. 9
): Surface sparsely punctate, with one row of sparse setae on each side of disc; setae long, slender. Marginal bead present in all margins, reduced on posterior margin at middle. Anterior angle nearly right-angled; posterior angles broadly rounded.
Scutellum
: Triangular
, apex rounded, surface punctate at base, smooth at apex.
Elytra
: Surface punctate, punctures sparse, setose, setae moderately long.
Legs
: Mesotibiae and metatibiae with two transverse carinae. Mesotibial and metatibial apex with fringe of spine-like setae.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 24
): Parameres las long as phallobase, curved at middle; apex rounded not club-like.
Type
material
:
Holotype
male at
IAZA
labeled: “
ARGENTINA
: San Juan / Salinas de Mascasín.
423 m
/
S 31°25’39”
,
W 67°04’05”
/
XII-12-2003
. F. C. Ocampo”; “
Gracilaclopus
/
caceresi
/ Ocampo & Mondaca / HOLO-
TYPE
” (red label).
Paratypes
(all male). Seventeen
paratypes
(11 at
IAZA
[three in 95% Et-OH], three
FVMC
, three
JMEC
) labeled as
holotype
except: “
Gracilaclopus
/
caceresi
/ Ocampo & Mondaca /
PARATYPE
” (yellow label).
Type
locality.
Argentina
, San Juan, Salinas de Mascasín (
31°25’39”S
,
67°04’05”W
).
Etymology.
We take great pleasure in naming this species after senior author’s friend José María Cáceres.
Distribution
(
Fig. 31
).
ARGENTINA
.
San Juan
: Salinas de Mascasín (18).
Temporal distribution.
December (18).