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<mods:title>The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Haleakala-, Maui: Keystone of a hyperdiverse Hawaiian radiation</mods:title>
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae</paragraph>
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(005)
<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/F9F2268A-0D17-4403-9ECA-DF564C2A5832" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax notobscuricornis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">Mecyclothorax notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
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Figs 15B, 16
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, 17B, 18B, 19
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Among the pale-margined members of this species group,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax notobscuricornis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">Mecyclothorax notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
(Fig. 15B) stands out due to the basally constricted pronotum; MPW/BPW = 1.57-1.61. This is also the largest-bodied species in the group, with standardized body length 3.6-4.3 mm. Like
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax daptinus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="daptinus">Mecyclothorax daptinus</taxonomicName>
, this species is characterized by well-developed forebody microsculpture and glossy elytra. The vertex is covered with well-developed isodiametric and transverse-mesh microsculpture, the pronotal disc by a well-developed transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 2
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length, whereas the discal elytral intervals are glossy, their surface covered with reduced transverse lines. Setal formula 2 1 2 1[sae].
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Description</paragraph>
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(n = 4). Head capsule with frontal grooves broad near clypeus, an associated lateral carina extended to anterior supraorbital seta; dorsal impression of neck flat to slightly concave; labral anterior margin broadly, shallowly emarginate; antennomeres 2-3 with sparse pelage of short setae; mentum tooth with sides acute, apex tightly rounded. Pronotum with lateral setae present, basal absent; hind angle obtuse to right, to slightly acute, margin rounded posterad angle; lateral margin subparallel to convergent anterad hind angle; median base depressed relative to disc, with fine longitudinal wrinkles; basal margin straight medially, expanded posterad laterobasal depressions; median longitudinal impression moderately deep at midlength, finely incised, extended onto median base; anterior transverse impression broad, shallow, crossed with longitudinal wrinkles, lined with granulate isodiametric microsculpture; anterior callosity slightly convex; front angles slightly projected, tightly rounded, more distant than hind angles, APW/BPW = 1.06-1.12; lateral marginal depression narrow throughout length, edge reflexed, beadlike margin only anterad and posterad hind angle; laterobasal depression smooth, continuous with lateral depression. Proepisternum with smooth hind marginal groove; prosternal process medially depressed, sides broadly upraised laterally. Elytra subovoid, disc moderately convex, lateral margins more so; basal groove distinctly recurved to subangulate humeral angle, MEW/HuW = 1.95-2.07; parascutellar seta present; parascutellar striole with 3-5 punctures, deep, continuous; sutural interval more convex than lateral intervals, sutural juncture elevated; sutural and 2nd striae of subequal depth from base to apex; all striae deep, associated intervals convex; 7th and 8th interval similarly convex near apex; 2 dorsal elytral setae, anterior at 0.29
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, and posterior at 0.58
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elytral length, setae situated in depressions spanning 2/3 of interval 3; subapical seta present, apical seta absent; lateral elytral setae arranged in anterior series of 7 setae, posterior series of 5(6) setae; elytral marginal depression broadly reflexed, translucent posterad humerus, narrowed apically to beadlike margin anterad subapical sinuation; subapical sinuation shallow, more abruptly incurved anteriorly. Mesepisternum with 6 shallow punctures, most in 1 row; metepisternal width to length ratio = 0.82; metepisternum/metepimeron suture distinct. Abdomen with irregular wrinkles laterally on ventrites 1-5; suture between ventrites 2 and 3 reduced, effaced laterally; apical male ventrite with 2 apical setae, apical female ventrite with 4 equally spaced setae plus a median trapezoid of 4 small setae. Legs-metatarsomere 1/metatibial length ratio = 0.19; metatarsomere 4 length along outer lobe 1.25
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medial tarsomere length, apical and subapical setae present; metatarsal dorsolateral sulci narrow, lateral, median area broad. Microsculpture of vertex well-developed isodiametric mesh in rows; pronotal disc with well-developed transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 2
<normalizedToken originalValue="3×">-3x</normalizedToken>
length; pronotal median base with upraised isodiametric and transverse mesh, transverse sculpticell breadth 2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length; elytral discal surface glossy, with reduced transverse lines; elytral apex with shallow transverse mesh and lines; metasternum with distinct transverse mesh; laterobasal abdominal ventrites with swirling isodiametric and transverse microsculpture. Coloration of vertex rufobrunneous; antennomere 1 flavous, antennomeres 2-3 rufous, 4-11 rufobrunneous; pronotal disc rufopiceous, lateral margins flavous, apex and base rufoflavous; proepipleuron rufoflavous, proepisternum rufobrunneous; elytral disc rufopiceous on intervals 2-5 to 2-6, base of interval 6 flavous; sutural interval rufobrunneous basally, rufoflavous apically; elytral intervals 7-9 pale, flavous, apex flavous to apical juncture of intervals 3 and 4; elytral epipleuron flavous dorsally, rufoflavous ventrally, metepisternum rufopiceous; abdominal ventrites 1-5 rufopiceous medially, 3-6 flavous laterally; apical half of apical ventrite 6 pale, flavous; metafemur flavous; metatibia rufoflavous with piceous cast.
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Male genitalia (n = 1). Aedeagal median lobe broad, robust, distance from parameral articulation to tip 2.5
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depth at midlength, apex broadly rounded and little extended beyond ostial opening (Fig. 16C); slightly curved to the right, the tip broadly rounded in ventral view (Fig. 16D); internal sac unornamented, large flagellar plate evident inside dorsal surface of median lobe dorsad parameral articulation (Fig. 11C).
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Female reproductive tract (n = 1). Bursa copulatrix elongate, broad with rounded apex, length 0.57 mm, breadth at bursal-vaginal juncture 0.23 mm, maximum vagina breadth 0.35 mm (Fig. 17B); bursal walls translucent, thinly wrinkled; gonocoxite 1 with 3 apical fringe setae, 5 setae on medial surface (Fig. 18B); gonocoxite 2 subtriangular, apex tightly rounded, base with short broad lateral extension, 2 lateral ensiform setae, the apical seta broader and longer, apical nematiform setae on medioventral surface at 0.70
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gonocoxite length.
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Holotype.</paragraph>
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Male (CUIC) dissected and labeled: HI: Maui Haleakala NW / slope Waikamoi Pres. / trans. 3 @ 1700 m el. / 10-V-1991 sifting / litter J.K. Liebherr // 2 //
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="notobscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
/ ♂ #5 / det. J.K. Liebherr 2014 // HOLOTYPE /
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="notobscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
/ Liebherr / det. J.K. Liebherr 2015 (black-margined red label).
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Allotype.</paragraph>
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Female (CUIC) labeled: HI: Maui Haleakala NW / slope Waikamoi Pres. / trans. 3 @ 1700 m el. / 8-V-1991 scraping / ohia w/ moss &amp; dirt // J.K. Liebherr / collector //
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="notobscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
/ ♀ photo / det. J.K. Liebherr 2014 // ALLOTYPE /
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="notobscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
/ Liebherr / det. J.K. Liebherr 2015 (black-margined red label).
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Paratypes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Koolau F.R., Haipuaena, 455 m el., 30-vi-1920, Bryan (BPBM, 2).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">
The adjectival species epithet
<taxonomicName lsidName="notobscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="notobscuricornis">notobscuricornis</taxonomicName>
is drawn from the converse name
<taxonomicName lsidName="obscuricornis" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" rank="species" species="obscuricornis">obscuricornis</taxonomicName>
, another species in this group. Why
<bibRefCitation author="Sharp, D" editor="Sharp, D" journalOrPublisher="The University Press, Cambridge" pageId="310" pageNumber="311" pagination="175 - 292" title="Coleoptera II. Caraboidea." volumeTitle="Fauna Hawaiiensis" year="1903">Sharp (1903)</bibRefCitation>
used that name is unknown, though it too can be derived from the name of a previously described and related species;
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax obscuricolor" order="Coleoptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="28" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscuricolor">Mecyclothorax obscuricolor</taxonomicName>
(Blackburn).
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<subSubSection pageId="27" pageNumber="28" type="distribution and habitat">
<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="28">
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(Fig. 19) is known from one recent collecting site, the upper Honomanu drainage at 1700 m elevation, and one historical 1920 collecting site near
<normalizedToken originalValue="Haipuaena">Haipua'ena</normalizedToken>
Camp along the Koolau Ditch (
<bibRefCitation author="Wilcox, C" journalOrPublisher="University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu" pageId="310" pageNumber="311" title="Sugar Water, Hawaii's Plantation Ditches" year="1996">Wilcox 1996</bibRefCitation>
), 425 m elevation (BPBM, E.H. Bryan, Jr.). Recent records were from sifted leaf litter and from moss and associated humus on the trunk of a large
<normalizedToken originalValue="ōhia">'ōhi'a</normalizedToken>
tree.
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