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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="135" pageNumber="136">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae</paragraph>
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(053)
<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/EBE87BAF-89FE-48CE-B36A-E62C8A2FF878" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax flaviventris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="135" pageNumber="136" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flaviventris">Mecyclothorax flaviventris</taxonomicName>
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Figs 62G, 63F, 68
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, 70
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, 72
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.
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This species is the most gracile-bodied
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group species with cordate pronotum, narrowed elytral humeri, and punctate discal elytral intervals (Fig. 68C). In body conformation it is most similar to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax ovipennis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ovipennis">Mecyclothorax ovipennis</taxonomicName>
(Fig. 65A), and both species share the setal formula 2 2 2 1[ae]. However individuals of this species lack the parascutellar seta. Also, this species is uniquely characterized among species in the group by the apically flavous abdomen, with the flavous ventrites 4-6 contrasted to the rufobrunneous basal ventrites (Fig. 68D). Standardized body length 3.7-4.1 mm.
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<paragraph pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Description</paragraph>
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(n = 5). Head capsule with frontal grooves broad near clypeus, lateral carina to supraorbital seta; dorsal surface of neck flat to slightly concave; eyes large and moderately convex, ocular ratio = 1.51-1.56, ocular lobe ratio = 0.82-0.88; labral anterior margin deeply angulate medially, emarginated 1/3 of length; antennae filiform; antennomeres 2-3 with only a few short setae along shafts; mentum tooth with sides acute, apex tightly rounded. Pronotum quadrisetose, distinctly constricted basally, MPW/BPW = 1.49-1.58, with lateral margins convergent before the right to slightly acute, projected hind angles; pronotum appearing narrow, but actually slightly transverse, MPW/PL = 1.13-1.21; median base broadly depressed relative to disc, rugose medially, longitudinally strigose laterally; basal margin very slightly convex between laterobasal depressions; median longitudinal impression evident, finely incised, continued onto median base; anterior transverse impression broad, surface with granulate microsculpture and deep, dense longitudinal wrinkles; anterior callosity depressed, covered with longitudinal wrinkles from transverse impression; front angles not projected, tightly rounded; pronotal apical width greater than basal width, APW/BPW = 1.06-1.09; lateral marginal depression moderately narrow, edge upturned, slightly broader inside front angle; laterobasal depression slightly transversely wrinkled, continuous with lateral depression. Proepisternum with 4-5 minute punctures along hind marginal groove; prosternal process with narrow median impression, lateral margins broadly beaded between coxae. Elytra distinctly ovoid with maximal width behind midlength, disc narrowly flat medially, sides steeply sloped; basal groove gently recurved to subangulate humerus that is defined by hitch at base of lateral marginal depression, MEW/HuW = 2.10-2.18; parascutellar striole very shallow, smooth, difficult to trace; sutural interval slightly more convex than lateral intervals, but depressed at suture; sutural and 2nd striae of subequal depth from base to apex, striae 2-6 progressively shallower on disc, stria 7 discontinuous, obsolete, discal striae 1-4 with small punctures restricted to deepest parts of striae; 8th interval slightly more convex than apical fused portion of striae 5 + 7; 2 dorsal elytral setae at 0.30
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and 0.61
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elytral length, setal impressions shallow, spanning
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
width of interval 3; apical elytral seta present near medial apex of interval 3, subapical seta absent; lateral elytral setae arranged in anterior series of 7 setae and posterior series of 6 setae; elytral marginal depression moderately narrow, edge upraised until beaded at subapical sinuation; subapical sinuation shallow, more abruptly incurved anteriorly. Mesepisternum with ~8 punctures in 1-2 rows; metepisternal width to length ratio = 0.71; metepisternum/metepimeron suture distinct. Abdomen with irregular lateral wrinkles on ventrites 1-5, lateral depressions on ventrites 3-6 (Fig. 68D); suture between ventrites 2 and 3 reduced laterally, effaced; apical male ventrite with 2 marginal setae, apical female ventrite with 4 equally spaced setae plus median trapezoid of 4 subequal, short setae. Legs-metatarsomere 1/metatibial length ratio = 0.21; metatarsomere 4 length along outer lobe 1.33
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medial tarsomere length, apical and subapical setae present;
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dorsolateral sulci narrow, shallow, median area broad. Microsculpture of vertex and pronotal disc a transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 2
<normalizedToken originalValue="3×">-3x</normalizedToken>
length; pronotal median base with granulate isodiametric and transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length; elytral disc with shallow isodiametric and transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 2
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
length, in transverse rows; elytral apex with shallow isodiametric sculpticells in transverse rows; metasternum with upraised transverse mesh; laterobasal abdominal ventrites with swirling isodiametric and transverse microsculpture. Coloration of vertex rufobrunneous with piceous cast; antennomeres 1-3 flavous, 4-11 darker, more brunneous; pronotal disc rufopiceous, lateral margins, base, and apex narrowly rufoflavous; proepipleuron rufoflavous, proepisternum rufobrunneous; elytral disc dark rufobrunneous, sutural interval narrowly rufobrunneous basally, rufoflavous apically; elytral marginal depression and 9th interval rufoflavous, elytral apex narrowly flavous; elytral epipleuron dorsally flavous, ventrally rufoflavous, metepisternum rufopiceous; abdomen with ventrites 1-2 rufobrunneous, ventrite 3 medially rufobrunneous, laterally and apically flavous, ventrites 3-6 flavous; metafemur flavous; metatibia flavous with a brunneous cast.
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Male genitalia (n = 5). Aedeagal median lobe variably gracile, distance between parameral articulation and tip 3.7
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depth at midlength (Fig. 70E, H, I); apex extended twice its depth beyond apex of ostial opening, tip slightly downturned, rounded; median lobe curved rightward toward apex in ventral view (Fig. 70F), right margin concave, left margin incurved to blunt tip; internal sac elongate, length from ostial margin to base of flagellar plate 0.79
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parameral articulation-tip distance, sac surface unornamented but with
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more developed over entire ventral surface (Fig. 70G); flagellar plate moderately short, length 0.36
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parameral articulation-tip distance. The male from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
Valley, 1500 m elevation (Fig. 70H) exhibits a broader apex, though the internal sac in its uneverted condition looks identical to the configuration of the
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
Valley, 1845 m elevation male (Fig. 70E). All of these specimens exhibit the flavous abdominal ventrites that represent an autapomorphy for the species, and if the lower elevation
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
Valley population is determined to be distinct, the additionally recognized species will be the sister to
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. A present, with only a single specimen from the lower
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
Valley locality, such recognition is deemed premature, and the aedeagal conformations are assumed to represent infraspecific variability.
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Female reproductive tract (n = 1). Bursa copulatrix columnar with rounded, slightly expanded apex, length 0.68 mm, breadth 0.29 mm (Fig. 62G); bursal walls translucent with thin wrinkles; gonocoxite 1 with 0-1 apical fringe setae and 7-8 smaller setae on medial surface (Fig. 63F); gonocoxite 2 falcate with tightly rounded tip, base with long, thin lateral extension with 90° bend at terminus, 2 lateral ensiform setae, the apical seta longer and broader, apical nematiform setae on medial surface at 0.69
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gonocoxite length.
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<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">Holotype.</paragraph>
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Male (CUIC) dissected and labeled: HI:Maui Haleakala N.P. / Kipahulu Vy. 1500 m el. / 9-V-1991 sifting / leaf litter by day // S. Jessel / A.C. Medeiros, / Jr. collectors //
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="flaviventris" pageId="138" pageNumber="139" rank="species" species="flaviventris">flaviventris</taxonomicName>
/ ♂ #4 / det. J.K. Liebherr 2014 // HOLOTYPE /
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/
<taxonomicName lsidName="flaviventris" pageId="138" pageNumber="139" rank="species" species="flaviventris">flaviventris</taxonomicName>
/ Liebherr / det. J.K. Liebherr 2015 (black-margined red label).
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<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">Paratypes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">35 specimens (see Appendix).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">
The Latin genitive singular
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signifies the flavous abdominal ventrites 4-6 contrasted to the piceous abdominal base.
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<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax flaviventris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="138" pageNumber="139" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flaviventris">Mecyclothorax flaviventris</taxonomicName>
has a distribution that is centered on the upper elevations of
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
Valley, extended northward into the
<normalizedToken originalValue="Hāna">Hana</normalizedToken>
Bogs, westward to the eastern mesic margin of
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Crater at Paliku, and southward to
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulus">Kīpahulu's</normalizedToken>
west rim near Kuiki (Fig. 72). Collecting localities span 1500-2100 m elevation. The beetles have almost always been collected in association with mossy
<normalizedToken originalValue="ōhia">'ōhi'a</normalizedToken>
trunks and logs. Several beetles have been encountered while beating vegetation, and one was captured in a pitfall trap at Paliku.
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<paragraph pageId="138" pageNumber="139">
Figure 72. Recorded geographic distribution of
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.
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