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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.6033" ID-GBIF-Dataset="80562a28-2e9e-47c5-9bf7-dc54f9ccecb1" ID-PMC="PMC3800829" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-339-67" ID-PubMed="24146587" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2013" ModsDocID="1313-2970-339-67" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 339" ModsDocTitle="Revision of the Australian Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae)" checkinTime="1451246837575" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Ballerio, Alberto" docDate="2013" docId="ABD336CF30631FECAFD71C6FAB3B4906" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 339: 67-91" docOrigin="ZooKeys 339" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.6033" docTitle="Cyphopisthes monteithi Ballerio, 2013, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="74" masterDocId="FF955E61B74EFF9F585E376FFF8DB824" masterDocTitle="Revision of the Australian Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae)" masterLastPageNumber="91" masterPageNumber="67" pageNumber="72" updateTime="1668156587988" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Revision of the Australian Ceratocanthinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Hybosoridae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ballerio, Alberto</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<mods:number>339</mods:number>
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<mods:start>67</mods:start>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.6033</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.339.6033</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-339-67</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152048605" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:41532D13-A9FE-45DA-BB27-20A403215A64" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/ABD336CF30631FECAFD71C6FAB3B4906" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="74" pageId="5" pageNumber="72">
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="72" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/41532D13-A9FE-45DA-BB27-20A403215A64" class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes monteithi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monteithi">Cyphopisthes monteithi</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="5" pageNumber="72">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–D">A-D</normalizedToken>
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, 3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
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, 5C, 6, 11C
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="72" type="type locality">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Amphitheatre scrub, Expedition Range National Park, Queensland, Australia.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="72" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">
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Holotype, male (QM, accession number: T189552) [extended specimen, glued on a card; genitalia mounted in DMHF resin on a separate card under the beetle]: Queensland,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-25.13">25.13S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="148.59">148.59E</geoCoordinate>
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, Expedition Range NP, 5063, Amphitheatre scrub, 520 m, 25
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Sep–">Sep-</normalizedToken>
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17 Dec 1997, Cook & Monteith, Vine for. Intercept; Paratype: 1 male, QLD,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-24.48">24.48S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="149.45">149.45E</geoCoordinate>
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, Brigalow Res. Stn., site 5, 16 Dec. 2000-28 Mar. 2001, D Cook & G Monteith, FIT softwood scrub 10020 (QM, accession number: T189553).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="72" type="further material examined">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Further material examined</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">
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(excluded from the type series). 1 male: Mt. Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland, 13-20.III.1971, G. B. Monteith, ex leaf litter (QM) [included in the type series of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="descarpentriesi">Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi</taxonomicName>
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by Paulian]. 1 female, QLD,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="-27.58">27.58S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="152.39">152.39E</geoCoordinate>
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, Kalbar 3 km SE, 120m, 2 Dec 2000-7 May 2001, C.J. Burwell, 10161, Brigalow scrub FIT (QM).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="73" pageId="5" pageNumber="72" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">
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Size: HL = 0.84 mm; HW = 1.11 mm; PL = 1.22 mm; PW = 2.02 mm; EL = 2.36 mm; EW = 2.11 mm. Overall morphology as in generic description. Dark brown, shiny, glabrous (very fine short yellowish setation visible at 90
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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), sternum, tarsi and antennae reddish-brown.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="72">Head: interocular distance about five times maximum width of dorsal ocular area, punctation relatively dense and impressed, disc with some impressed short transverse comma-shaped punctures, each one having a simple small puncture at its interior side, sides of disc with large comma-shaped punctures centrifugally oriented, with opening facing internally, each one having a simple fine puncture internally, anterior portion of clypeus with three-four irregular anastomosing transverse lines.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="73" start="start">Pronotum</pageBreakToken>
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: margin completely bordered, anterior angles angulate, completely covered by medium sized horseshoe-shaped punctures, on disc with an opening directed anteriad, punctures at sides larger than on disc, with an opening directed laterad, each puncture having inside it a small setigerous pore. Punctation dense: interpunctural distance being less than their diameter.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Scutellum: covered by dense horseshoe-shaped punctures with posterior openings.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Elytra: W/L: 0,93). Humeral callus indistinct, two short longitudinal lines starting at humerus and occupying proximal third, sutural interstria indistinct, disc with longitudinally oriented comma-shaped punctures, each one having a simple small puncture at its left side, sides of disc with medium horseshoe-shaped punctures with small posterior openings, each one bearing a setigerous pore in the middle. Interpunctural distance subequal to puncture width. Pseudepileura with longitudinally oriented anastomosing horseshoe-shaped punctures mixed with comma-shaped punctures.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Genital segment: Fig. 11C. Aedeagus: Fig. 3A, B.</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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Figure 2.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes monteithi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monteithi">Cyphopisthes monteithi</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. A Extended Holotype, dorsal view B enrolled Holotype, ventral view C enrolled Holotype, dorsal view D enrolled Holotype, lateral view.
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes monteithi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monteithi">Cyphopisthes monteithi</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., aedeagus A dorsal view of parameres B lateral view of aedeagus. Scale bar: 0,1 mm.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="73" type="dignosis">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Dignosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">
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Very close to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes yorkensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yorkensis">Cyphopisthes yorkensis</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., but can be easily distinguished from it by the presence of denser and larger punctation on head disc.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="73" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Noun in the genitive case. Dedicated to Dr. Geoff Monteith, former curator at Queensland Museum.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="73" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="73">Known from southern Queensland, where all specimens have been found in dry rainforest type of vegetation, i.e. softwood and brigalow scrub, in flight intercept traps (one specimen excluded from type series was collected by leaf litter sifting).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="74" type="remarks">
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="74">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="74" start="start">Remarks</pageBreakToken>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="74">
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This new species and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="descarpentriesi">Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi</taxonomicName>
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are the most remarkable species among the Australian
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Ceratocanthinae">Ceratocanthinae</taxonomicName>
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since they occur south of the Queensland Wet Tropics, in environments completely different from the environment where most other
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cyphopisthes</taxonomicName>
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occur, i.e. rainforests. The vegetation type in the areas where
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes monteithi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monteithi">Cyphopisthes monteithi</taxonomicName>
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has been collected is characterized by drier, lower and sparser woodland, with patches off denser forest ("dry rainforest").
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="74">
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I excluded from the type series the specimen from Mount Coot-tha which differs from the holotype because of the more extended comma-shaped punctation on the disc and the presence of transverse lines in the pseudepipleura and the specimen from Kalbar, which has much sparser punctation on the head. This circumstance, together with the fact that they occur some 480 km Southeast of the type locality of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes monteithi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monteithi">Cyphopisthes monteithi</taxonomicName>
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, suggests prudence before assigning them to the new species. The same applies to the above mentioned specimen from Peak Downs (see under
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hybosoridae" genus="Cyphopisthes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="74" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="descarpentriesi">Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi</taxonomicName>
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).
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