And then there were six: a revision of the genus Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
Author
Chatzimanolis, Stylianos
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-20
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Phanolinopsis fassli
(
Bernhauer, 1917
)
,
new combination
(
Figs. 3
,
9
,
15
,
31–33
,
44
)
Trigonopselaphus fassli
Bernhauer, 1917
: 113
.
Phanolinus fassli
(Bernhauer)
;
Scheerpeltz, 1933
: 1415
.
Trigonopselaphus fassli
Bernhauer
;
Scheerpeltz, 1972
: 43
.
Torobus fassli
(Bernhauer)
;
Herman 2001
: 29
.
Type
material
.
Holotype
, female, with labels: “
Columbia
occ. Cali. Fassl” / “
Cañon
del Monte
Tolima
,
1700m
, iiiii.1910” / “
fassli Bern.
Typus
” / “
Chicago
NHMus,
M. Bernhauer Collection
” /
HOLOTYPE
teste A
.
Westricht
2015 GDI imaging
Project
” / “PHOTOGRAPHED
Kelsey Keaton
2015
Emu Catalog
” / “FMNHINS3047816
Field Museum Pinned
” / “
Phanolinopsis fassli
(Bernhauer)
det.
Chatzimanolis
2017”.
In
the collection of
FMNH
.
Bernhauer (1917)
added the following to the locality label on the specimen: “
Umgebung von Cali
am
Cauca
”, and mentioned that he had only a single female specimen, which is the
holotype
.
Additional Material. Unknown Country:
Coll. Kraatz (1 ♂ SDEI).
Diagnosis.
Among all species of
Phanolinopsis
,
P. fassli
and
P. norahae
are easily distinguished from other species due to the lack of punctures on the disc of the pronotum in these two species.
Phanolinopsis fassli
can be distinguished from
P. norahae
based on the following: head and pronotum with weak micropunctation (
Fig. 9
; much starker in
P. norahae
,
Fig. 12
); reduced microsculpture between eyes and postmandibular ridge (
Fig. 15
; not reduced in
P. norahae
,
Fig. 18
); tip of paramere flat (
Figs. 31, 33
; more rounded in
P. norahae
,
Figs. 40, 42
). The two species also differ in coloration (
Figs. 3
,
6
).
FIGURES 31–33.
Aedeagus of
P.
fassli
(Bernhauer)
. 31. Dorsal view. 32. Lateral view. 33. Detail of paramere, ventral view.
Description.
Body length 12.6–14.0mm. Head, pronotum and elytra metallic purple-brown with green overtones. Mouthparts, antennae, mesoscutellum, ventral surface of thorax, legs and abdomen brown. Posterior half of abdominal terga slightly lighter color; posterior 1/4 of segment VII and segment VIII orange. Head transverse, width: length ratio = 1.32. Epicranium with transverse and polygon-shaped microsculpture and sparse micropunctures; with large to medium-sized punctures around margin of head (becoming more numerous near posterior margin), but with no other punctures on epicranium. Eyes medium-sized, length of eyes / length of head ratio = 0.39, distance between eyes as wide as 2.67 times length of eye. Area between postmandibular ridge and eye (lateral side of head) wide, without polygon-shaped microsculpture but with sparse transverse microsculpture; posterolateral corner of head not pointed. Antennomeres 1–8, longer than wide; antennomeres 9–11 missing. Neck with micropunctures, microsculpture, and with dense small punctures. Pronotum subquadrate, width: length ratio = 0.98; surface of pronotum uniformly covered with sparse micropunctures and dense polygon-shaped microsculpture; appearing matte due to microsculpture. Pronotum with few large punctures around margin; disc of pronotum impunctate. Elytra with medium-sized punctures (about 12–13 punctures / elytron width); punctures almost confluent. Elytra appearing shiny; with sparse longitudinal microsculpture. Abdominal terga with 1–2 rows of small punctures. Male secondary sexual structures with sternum VIII having shallow V-shaped emargination medially; sternum IX with deep V-shaped emargination medially. Female without obvious sexual structures. Aedeagus as in
Figs. 31–33
; in dorsal view paramere converging to flat tip; paramere shorter and narrower (apically) than median lobe; in lateral view paramere concave apically; paramere with peg setae as in
Fig. 33
. Median lobe in dorsal view wide, converging to rounded apex, with two broad teeth apically; in lateral view becoming narrower near apex.
Distribution.
Known from the
type
locality of west
Colombia
in the mountainous surrounding of Cali.
Habitat.
Unknown, but given the high altitude (
1700m
), the species is probably found in cloud forests.