Taxonomic and nomenclatorial revision of the Neotropical genus Phaeoxantha Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
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Moravec, Jiří
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Dheurle, Charles
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Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. jirmor @ quick. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5294 - 6410 & 5 place Jenson, F- 52200 Langres, France. charles. dheurle @ wanadoo. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2580 - 6962 Corresponding author & Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. jirmor @ quick. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5294 - 6410
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-12-14
5386
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1
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https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5386.1.1/52481
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10.11646/zootaxa.5386.1.1
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Phaeoxantha
(
Euphaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
(
Mandl, 1958
)
.
(
Figs 310–324
)
Megacephala
(
Phaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
Mandl, 1958:
30
t, 30 d, pl. 3, figs. 6–7, 10.
Phaeoxantha wimmeri
:
Guerra, Brzoska & Pearson 1997: 26
.
Megacephala
(
Phaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
:
Wiesner 1992: 45
.
Phaeoxantha wimmeri
:
Cassola & Pearson 2001: 11
.
Phaeoxantha wimmeri
:
Wiesner 2020: 30
.
Type
locality.
Bolivia
: department of
Santa Cruz
, alt.
500 m
.
Type material
.
Holotype
(
Fig. 313
) and
allotype
in
NHMB
,
holotype
labelled: “
Bolivia
oriental – /
Santa Cruz
500m
– / 10.10.54 Zischka” [bluish print/handwritten] // “
Megacephala
/ bucephala / W. Horn” [sic! handwritten] // “Meg. (Phaeox.) / testudinea [sic!] / det Dr. Ing. K.
Mandl 1958
” [handwritten/printed, additionally crossed] // “
Holotypus
/ Meg. (Phaecox.) / Wimmeri m.
♂
/ det Dr. Ing. K.
Mandl 1958
” [red, handwritten/printed]. Other
paratypes
(
examined from photos
Figs 310–311
).
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
in
SDEI
with same first two labels as
holotype
[the second label crossed] // “
Paratypus
Megac. (Phaeox.) / Wimmeri m / det Dr. Ing. K.
Mandl 1958
” [red, handwritten/printed].
57 paratypes
in ZSM (not examined).
FIGURES 310–312.
Phaeoxantha
(
Euphaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
(Mandl)
from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. 310–311—habitus: 310—♂; 24.4 mm, PT (SDEI); 311—♀, 24.3 mm, PT (SDEI); 312—labels of the female PT. Bars = 1 mm. Image credit Kevin Weissing.
FIGURES 313–318.
Phaeoxantha
(
Euphaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
(Mandl)
. 313—habitus, ♂, 25.8 mm, HT (NHMB), image credit Simona C. Ruffener (NHMB); 314—labels of the HT; 315–318—specimens from Yapacani in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (CCJM): 315–316—labrum: 315—♂; 316—♀; 317—head showing buccal appendages, ♂; 318—pronotum, ♀. Bars = 1 mm.
FIGURES 319–324.
Phaeoxantha
(
Euphaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
(Mandl)
, all from Yapacani in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (CCJM). 319–320—mandibles: 319—♂; 320—♀; 321—aedeagus; 322–324—elytra: 322–323—♂; 324—♀. Bars = 1 mm.
FIGURE 325.
Amazon Basin. Modified from a smaller map: https://upload.www.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/ Amazonriverbasin_basemap.png).
Other material examined
.
2 ♀♀
in
CCJM
: “
Bolivia
oriental. /
Santa Cruz
–
500 m
/
20.XI.1955
, Zischka lgt.”
.
4 ♂♂
,
2 ♀♀
in
COSJ
,
4 ♂♂
,
2 ♀♀
in
CCJM
,
1 ♂
in
CJVB
: “
Bolivia
:
Santa Cruz
depart. /
80 km
NW of city
Sta. Cruz
/
Yapacani
env.
25.XI.2007
/ O. Šafránek lgt.”
.
2 ♂♂
,
4 ♀♀
in
CJVB
: ibid. except for: “
21.I.2017
Kamil Klečka
leg.”
.
1 ♀
in
CJVB
: “
Bolivia
:
Santa Cruz
/
80 km
NW of city
Sta. Cruz
/ El Torno env. /
21.I.2017
leg.
Jakub Netušil
”
.
1 ♂
,
2 ♀♀
in
COSJ
: “
Bolivia
:
Cochabamba
depart. / cca
5 km
N from
Villa Tunari
/
S16°54´46´´
;
W65°24´24´´
270 m
/
22.XI.2012
,
light trap
/
O. Šafránek
et
M. Amaya
lgt.”
.
Differential diagnosis
.
Phaeoxantha
(
Euphaeoxantha
)
wimmeri
is very similar to
P.
(
E
.)
klugii
. As the elytral shape may be sometimes very similar in both these species due to the usual variability (but always shorter in
P.
(
E
.)
wimmeri
), and as also their aedeagi are very similar, one other distinguishing character is the shape of the right mandible in males of
P.
(
E
.)
wimmeri
, which has the second tooth mostly tightly appressed to the terminal tooth and constantly markedly distant from the third tooth (
Figs 317
,
319
). For other distinguishing characters see “Differential diagnosis” under
P.
(
E
.)
klugii
above.
Examined adult specimens are
22.5–26.1 mm
long,
8.50–11.6 mm
wide; the illustrated type specimens measure: length of the
holotype
(NHMB)
25.8 mm
, width
11.3 mm
;
paratypes
(SDEI) length of male
24.4 mm
, width 10.2; length of female
24.3 mm
, width
9.70 mm
.
Distribution
. Known only from
Bolivia
, hitherto only from the department of
Santa Cruz
(
Wiesner 2020
), but three above-listed specimens from Villa Tunari come from the department of
Cochabamba
. Adults were taken on rather large sandy beaches of the rivers Yapacani (
Fig. 328
) and Surutú flowing from the mountain range to more open areas;
Tetracha
(
Neotetracha
)
fulgida
(
Klug, 1834
)
and
T.
(
N
.)
thomsoniana
(W.
Horn, 1915
) shared the same places (O. Šafránek, pers. com.).
Pearson
et al.
(1999a)
listed a great number of other records from the department of
Santa Cruz
, mostly from banks of Rio Surutú and Rio Piray (also spelled “Pirai”), from Yapacani as well as a number of specimens from Rio Ichilo on the border of the departments of Santa Cuz and
Cochabamba
.