A revision of the genus Macrolygistopterus Pic, 1929 (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calochromini)
Author
Ferreira, Vinicius S.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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4
321
338
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.4.2
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1175-5326
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Macrolygistopterus subparallelus
Pic, 1930
(
Figs. 7
,
15
,
25
,
32
,
45
)
Macrolygistopterus subparallelus
Pic, 1930a
: 84
(original description);
Kleine, 1933
: 104
(catalogue);
Blackwelder, 1945
: 351
(catalogue);
Costa & Vanin, 2012
:55
(immature stages).
Type
material.
Macrolygistopterus subparallelus
:
syntype
, male,
Paraguay
, no other data, hereby designated as
lectotype
, deposited at
MNHN
.
Diagnosis.
Pronotum rectangular, with angles slightly directed backwards and strongly sculptured (
Fig. 25
). Elytral costa arrangement: costa I and II fused subapically, apex of costa I apically obliterated; costa III subapically obliterated and fused to the outer margin of II; costa IV reaching elytral apex, with an oblique obliterated line linking costa II and IV (
Fig. 32
).
Redescription.
Head black, prolonged in rostrum as long as sum of antennomeres I+II+III (
Fig. 15
); coronal suture reduced, hardly visible. Median interocular distance of
2x
width of eye. Mandibles curved, connates to labrum, testaceous. Maxillary palp with palpomere I short; palpomere II twice the length of I; palpomere III slightly shorter than the precedent; palpomere IV securiform. Antennae with scape conic; pedicel 1/3 of scape length; antennomere III subequal to I in length; antennomere IV slightly longer than precedent; antennomeres V to VII gradually shorter.
Pronotum subtrapezoidal, wider than longer (6:9), with anterior margin pronounced, and lateral and posterior margins not pronounced, testaceous, with a wide longitudinal black strip, strongly sculptured; a pair of shallow longitudinal elevations parallels, constricted in 2/5 and 4/5; a pair of oblique elevations starting from close to the anterior angles and reaching but not touching the median enlarged region (
Fig. 25
). Scutellum black, transverse (
Figs. 7
,
32
).
Elytra subparallels, lateral margins stout, testaceous with apical third bluish black. Arrangement of elytral costae: Costa I and II fused subapically, apex of costa I apically obliterated; costa III subapically obliterated and fused to outer margin of II; costa IV reaching elytral apex, with an oblique obliterated line linking costa II and IV (
Fig. 32
).
Width at humeri> 2.6mm. Elytral length—10.4mm.
Distribution.
Paraguay
, only known by the
lectotype
(
Fig. 45
).
Examined material.
Paraguay
,
1 ♂
(
lectotype
) (
MNHN
).
Female unknown.
Comments
.
Costa & Vanin (2012)
described the immatures stages of a
Macrolygistopterus
species that at the moment of the publication was tentatively identified as
M
.
subparallelus
, however, after the comparison of the specimen with the
lectotype
of
M
.
subparallelus
I was able to recognize that the specimen was from another species.