ON SPLITTING OF THE GENUS NOTOCUPES (COLEOPTERA: ARCHOSTEMATA): NEW DATA ON MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY
Author
Strelnikova, O. D.
Author
Yan, E. V.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2023
2023-11-30
488
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.488.1
journal article
10.25221/fee.488.1
2713-2196
10134730
365BADCC-23BA-4494-B45C-73B1C42706E4
Odontomma patulа
(Ponomarenko, 1985)
,
comb. n.
Figs 9–12
Notocupes patulus
Ponomarenko, 1985: 48
, tab.
VI
, fig. 1.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Holotype
,
PIN
no. 4034/2 – print and counterprint of elytron, metaventrite, and abdomen, apices of elytron and abdomen not preserved;
Layma
locality,
Tyumen
Formation
, Middle Jurassic.
DIAGNOSIS. Abdomen covered with large, sparse tubercles, density 175 tb/mm
2
. Elytron has up to around 38 small cells in the row.
DESCRIPTION. Epipleuron wide, gradually curving along its length, weakly narrowing at basal half to about 1/3 of its original width. Elytral base straight; humeral bulge distinct, rounded. Elytral cells small, more than 30 cells in a single row. Metaventrite trapezoid, his width 2.5 times exceeds length. Paracoxal suture do not reaches posterior angles of metaventrite. Central portion of abdominal sternites covered with large tubercles (
0.05–0.07 mm
in diameter; 0.02–0.06 distance between tubercles). Metacoxae strongly transverse, width two times exceeds length, covering half of first visible abdominal sternite.
MESUREMENS. Approximate body length 13, length of preserved body part 8.7, approximate elytral length 10, width at basal third 4.
COMPARISION. Similar to
Odontomma trachylаena
Ren et al., 2006
and
О. sulcatum
(Tan et al., 2007)
in having small elytral cells and paracoxal suture not reaching posterior margins of metaventrite. Differs from
O. trachylаena
in noticeably smaller size and from
О. sulcatum
in smaller density of cuticular tubercles, and from both species in narrower epipleuron.
REMARKS. This species cannot be assigned to any of the five genera previously comprised former
Notocupes
. Here it is transferred from
Notocupes
to
Odontomma
Ren et al., 2006
on the basis of follow features: body covered with large, sparse tubercles; elytral base straight, humeral bulge distinct; epipleural margin dentate along its length; rather wide, only weakly narrowing posteriorly, epipleuron. There are no species with posteriorly widening epipleuron, if epipleuron is wide near elytral base it is usually strongly narrowing at the elytron midlength (
Figs 4
,
25–28
).