New taxa of Epiphloeinae Kuwert (Cleridae) and Chaetosomatidae Crowson (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)
Author
Opitz, Weston
text
Insecta Mundi
2010
2010-04-02
2010
123
1
28
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5352832
1942-1354
5352832
0C509A80-EAFC-4F4A-9075-53A6D84FC4BB
Amboakis waodani
Opitz
,
new species
Figure 4
,
30
,
42
,
51
.
Holotype
. Male.
ECUADOR
:
Orellana
Reserva Ethnica Waorani
,
1 km
S Oncone Gare Camp
,
76
o
26’W
39
o
10’S
,
6-VII-1995
T.L. Erwin
(
USNM
). (Specimen point mounted, antenna affixed to paper point; gender label affixed to support card; card with metathoracic wing; locality label; second locality label; USNM acronymic label;
Holotype
label; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)
Paratypes
. None.
Diagnosis
(
Fig. 51
). This species is most closely allied to the Mexican
A
.
katatonis
whose specimens have the elytra homogeneously dark brown. In
A
.
waodani
specimens the elytra are bicolorous, with the disc showing a wide obliquely positioned yellow streak.
Description.
Size
: Length 6.0 mm: width
2.1 mm
.
Integument
: Cranium mostly yellowish, vertex with a narrow black line; pronotum minutely dark brown at lower sides, disc broadly black, with two broad paralateral yellow streaks; elytra broadly dark brown at basal half of sutural margin and at distal third; legs, prothoracic and metathoracic legs dark brown, metafemur mostly yellow, metatibiae and metatarsi dark brown.
Head
: Wider than pronotum (40:38); vertex narrower than eye (9:14); funicular antennomeres considerably expanded (
Fig. 4
).
Thorax
: Pronotum, transverse (38:31), side margins more convex than tuberculate, punctations minute, discal trichobothrium set in deep, transverse shallow, and spheroid depression; elytra, form broad rectangular, ratio of elytral length to elytral width 2:1, ratio of elytral length to pronotal length 5:1, punctations small, seriate and arranged into 11 rows, shallowly impressed, punctations not wider than width of interstitial spaces, distal region of epipleuron margin not spinous, disc vested profusely with dark setae; protibial anterior margin with 7 spines.
Abdomen
: Aedeagus as in figure 30.
Alimentary Canal
: Ventricular crypts poorly developed; 4 cryptonephridial Malpighian tubules.
Mesodermal Male Reproductive Organs
(
Fig. 42
): Two pairs of accessory glands; testis composed of 12 follicles.
Variation.
One specimen examined.
Natural History.
The
Holotype
was collected during July by fogging tree leaves.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality.
Etymology.
The specific epithet
waodani
is a noun in apposition and a dedicatory name to honor the indigenous people of the Yasuní forests of
Ecuador
.
Taxonomic Notes.
Among the
Amboakis
species
keyed in
Opitz (2006: 119)
A
.
waodani
Opitz
is most closely related to the Mexican
A
.
katatonis
Opitz. The
following changes are made to the aforementioned key:
13(11'). Elytral punctations arranged into 11 rows, few punctations misaligned near sutural margin ....
................................................................................................................................................
14
– Elytral punctations arranged into 10 rows ...............................................................................
15
14(13). Vertex wider than width of eye;
elytra all dark brown (
México
:
Michoacán
;
Jalisco
) ...................
.....................................................................................................
Amboakis katatonis
Opitz
– Vertex narrower than width of eye; elytra bicolorous, with a wide obliquely directed yellow band
(
Ecuador
:
Orellana
) ......................................................................
Amboakis waodani
Opitz