A contribution to the genera Plectonotum Gorham and Hyponotum Wittmer, with the description of sixteen new species from Peru (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)
Author
Constantin, Robert
text
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2020
Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo
2020-03-04
60
34
1
27
http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34
journal article
10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34
1807-0205
4637615
27019209-D6C3-47EA-8B16-213EC117A891
Hyponotum macrocephalum
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 21
,
44
,
87-88
,
113
,
119
)
Type material:
Holotype
♂
(
MUSM
):
Peru
, provincia de
Huánuco
, túnel
de Carpish
, lado norte, cabañas del camino viejo,
09°43′S
,
76°06′W
,
2,700 m
,
28.III.2015
, leg.
R. Constantin.
Description:
Holotype
. Length
4.4 mm
. Head black, the front margin of the clypeus light brown. Mandibles yellow. Antennomeres I-II rusty brown with yellow ventral face, III-XI black. Pronotum, elytra and abdomen black. Legs black, protibiae yellow, tarsi brown. Head as wide as pronotum. Eyes elongate, flattened, feebly convex. Frons flat between the eyes, the surface alutaceous and dull, with dense, thin punctation and sparse, thin whitish setae. Temples long, arcuate, narrowed basally. Antennae slender, as long as three-quarters of the body. Pronotum 1.5 times wider than long. Apical edge right, basal edge feebly bisinuate, lateral edges regularly rounded, apical angles obtuse, basal angle right. Disc wide, moderately convex, separated from the border by a furrow. Lateral borders wider and more explanate than the front and rear borders. Elytra 2.8 times longer than the combined width at the base, not costate, subseriately and strongly punctate, the punctations 1.5 times wider than their intervals, covered with sparse, long (
0.08-0.1 mm
), whitish setae, obliquely backwards directed. Legs simples. Claws thin, without basal denticles. Abdominal sternite VIII with arched lateral edges, narrowing apically in a short tip. Aedeagus: tegmen elongate, the apico-ventral edge with two long, narrow apophyses. Lateral sclerites narrow, not denticulate. Median lobe with narrow tip.