A new species of Stenomorpha Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Asidini) from Cuatrociénegas, Mexico with a key to the furcata species group
Author
Smith, Aaron D.
Author
Miller, Kelly B.
Author
Wheeler, Quentin D.
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Zootaxa
2011
2909
27
37
journal article
46720
10.5281/zenodo.277790
7fd5c668-6ebc-4197-8734-7a846480f612
1175-5326
277790
Key to the
Stenomorpha furcata
species group
1 Pronotal disc impunctate and tuberculate, tubercles glossy, each bearing a long decumbent hair laterally; posterolateral prono- tal apices acute and slightly prolonged; Sonora,
Mexico
....................................
S. granicollis
(Blaisdell)
- Pronotal disc finely to moderately punctate and lacking tubercles; posterolateral pronotal apices obtuse, not prolonged.... 2
2(1’) Pronotal disc and lateral margin moderately to densely clothed in erect or recurved setae; prosternum lacking tubercles..... 3
- Pronotal disc and lateral margin sparsely clothed in minute decumbent setae; prosternum tuberculate..
S. furcata
(Champion)
3(2) Dorsum clothed in short erect light brown setae; tarsi with plantar surface bearing light brown spiniform setae along lateral margins, medially glabrous or nearly glabrous; Arizona and California............................
S. wickhami
(Horn)
- Dorsum clothed in long blackish-brown recurved and erect setae (fig. 13); tarsi with plantar surface densely clothed in long golden-orange setae (fig. 15), lacking a glabrous medial region; Coahuila,
Mexico
....................
S. roosevelti
,
n. sp.