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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C4687F8BA8BFAF2FB6A" bold="true" box="[151,425,1157,1183]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Renclasea occidentalis</emphasis>
Tishechkin &amp; Caterino
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,
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(
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,
<figureCitation id="CAE32A2DFFCB3C468790BAA6FA46FB37" box="[255,285,1192,1218]" captionStart="FIGURE 11" captionStartId="13.[151,255,1386,1410]" captionTargetBox="[313,1292,262,1347]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[264,1323,234,1361]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 11. Male genitalia, Renclasea occidentalis. A. Abdominal segments 8 9, dorsal view; B. Abdominal segments 8 9, lateral view; C. Abdominal segment 8, apical view; D. Abdominal segments 8 9, ventral view; E. Apex of parameres, dorsal view; F. Aedeagus, lateral view; G. Ninth sternite (spiculum gastrale), ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/191873/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">11</figureCitation>
,
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)
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C4687F8BAFBFAD4FAFA" bold="true" box="[151,399,1269,1295]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Material examined:</emphasis>
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male: &quot;
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: Catron Co.; Puebla Cmpgd S. of Reserve
<date id="26661068FFCB3C46824FBAFBFEC6FAFA" box="[1312,1437,1269,1295]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" value="1987-06-09">9-VI-1987</date>
Robert Gordon /
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C468566BB12F847FAC0" box="[521,796,1308,1333]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Renclasea occidentalis</emphasis>
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A. K. Tishechkin &amp; M. S. Caterino des. 2008&quot; (
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).
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(1): female from Arizona, Cochise Co.,
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N Benson collected by A. R. Hardy, F. G. Andrews and J. W. Smith on
<date id="26661068FFCB3C468682BB67F9D0FA76" box="[493,651,1385,1411]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" value="1969-07-26">July 26, 1969</date>
(
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).
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C4687A9BB81FA13FA5C" bold="true" box="[198,328,1423,1449]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Diagnosis:</emphasis>
This is one of two species without alutaceous background microsculpture on dorsal surface and presence of distinct traces of dorsal striae. It can be distinguished from smaller and less robust
<taxonomicName id="95D84D2BFFCB3C46824BBBB9FB9DFA03" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Renclasea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="falli">
<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C46824BBBB9FB9DFA03" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Renclasea falli</emphasis>
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by the absence of prosternal carinal striae.
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCB3C4687A9B80DFA3AF9E8" bold="true" box="[198,353,1539,1565]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Description:</emphasis>
L: 2.09; W: 1.60; E/Pn L: 1.76; E/Pn W: 1.16; Pn W/L: 1.60; E L/W: 0.94; Pr/Py: 1.07; Sterna: 0.46, 0.17, 0.47; Tibiae: 0.53, 0.62, 0.71 (n=2). Body rufescent, shiny, smooth and asetose throughout except for a few setae on antennomeres 17. Frons and clypeus depressed at middle between lateral carinae; labrum narrowly rectangular, its apical margin straight, unmodified. Prosternal sides convergent, much more strongly in anterior fourth, above antennal cavities, weakly outwardly sinuate, with the anterior angles blunt, almost rectangular; marginal stria present along lateral edge, extending around anterolateral corner, interrupted at middle of anterior emargination of pronotum; pronotal lateral sides narrowly flattened and slightly reflexed; median angle of pronotal posterior margin about 110º. Prosternum with anterior margin of prosternal lobe almost straight; prosternal keel moderately elevated and flat, its base in male slightly excavated, carinal striae absent, weak basal fragments of lateral prosternal striae marked between procoxae in female specimen.
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<paragraph id="526736A8FFCB3C4787A9B9A3F8CAFF2D" blockId="12.[151,1437,1269,2030]" lastBlockId="13.[151,1437,152,216]" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="14" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Scutellum elongate triangular, small; elytra convex, widest at anterior third, with minute sparse background punctures, being denser and more conspicuous along sutural striae and at posterior fourth, where some merge into a weak background microsculpture; dorsal elytral striae 13 weakly marked on disc, abbreviated posteriorly; sutural stria abbreviated in anterior fifth.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCA3C4787F8BB64FA7EFA77" bold="true" box="[151,293,1386,1410]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">FIGURE 11.</emphasis>
Male genitalia,
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. A. Abdominal segments 89, dorsal view; B. Abdominal segments 89, lateral view; C. Abdominal segment 8, apical view; D. Abdominal segments 89, ventral view; E. Apex of parameres, dorsal view; F. Aedeagus, lateral view; G. Ninth sternite (spiculum gastrale), ventral view.
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<paragraph id="526736A8FFCA3C4787A9BBFBFAF1F95F" blockId="13.[151,1438,1525,2015]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Mesoventrite flat in males, with low elevated area in median fourth incorporating metaventral projection in females, mesoventral projection short, wide triangular, its apex slightly elevated; mesometaventral suture 'curly bracket'-shaped, thin and inconspicuous; disc of metaventrite in male in anterior half with shallow oval depression, not reaching anterior parts of outer metaventral striae laterally; metaventral disc in females weakly, evenly convex.</paragraph>
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Propygidium weakly convex, disc with fine microsculpture of merged shallow dense punctures and short transverse striolets, alutaceous; marginal stria of propygidium complete; pygidium smooth, weakly convex, with striate ornament in females (
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D). Male and female genitalia as illustrated (
<figureCitation id="CAE32A2DFFCA3C478398B90AFE3EF8EB" box="[1271,1381,1796,1822]" captionStart="FIGURE 11" captionStartId="13.[151,255,1386,1410]" captionTargetBox="[313,1292,262,1347]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[264,1323,234,1361]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 11. Male genitalia, Renclasea occidentalis. A. Abdominal segments 8 9, dorsal view; B. Abdominal segments 8 9, lateral view; C. Abdominal segment 8, apical view; D. Abdominal segments 8 9, ventral view; E. Apex of parameres, dorsal view; F. Aedeagus, lateral view; G. Ninth sternite (spiculum gastrale), ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/191873/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Figs. 11</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="CAE32A2DFFCA3C47821BB90AFECCF8EB" box="[1396,1431,1796,1822]" captionStart="FIGURE 12" captionStartId="14.[151,255,898,922]" captionTargetBox="[299,1303,394,872]" captionTargetId="figure@14.[264,1323,372,889]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="FIGURE 12. Female genitalia. A. Renclasea occidentalis. abdominal sternite 8, ventral view; B. R. occidentalis, tergite 8, gonocoxites, and genital sclerites, ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/191874/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">12</figureCitation>
, respectively).
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCA3C4787AAB95FFA0AF89E" bold="true" box="[197,337,1873,1899]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species epithet reflects its distribution in the American West.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCA3C4787A9B976FA3CF867" bold="true" box="[198,359,1912,1938]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known from two localities in Arizona and New
<collectingCountry id="2ACF7638FFCA3C4784CBB976F8A5F867" box="[932,1022,1912,1938]" name="Mexico" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Mexico</collectingCountry>
(
<figureCitation id="CAE32A2DFFCA3C478362B976FF3EF867" box="[1037,1125,1912,1938]" captionStart="FIGURE 14" captionStartId="16.[151,255,1631,1655]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,700,1604]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[151,1436,700,1605]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURE 14. Map of southern North America, showing all known collecting localities for Renclasea spp. The question mark in west Texas represents specimens of uncertain identity (discussed under R. occidentalis)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/191876/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 14</figureCitation>
).
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<subSubSection id="1AC26523FFCA3C4487A9B990FE54FEB9" lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="15" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFCA3C4787A9B990FA1BF84D" bold="true" box="[198,320,1950,1976]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Remarks.</emphasis>
Two female specimens from western Texas, both attracted to UV lights, from Fort Davis collected on
<date id="26661068FFCA3C478642B9CBFA8AF82A" box="[301,465,1989,2015]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" value="1959-05-30">May 30, 1959</date>
by H. Howden and E. Becker (CMN) and from Randall Co., Palo Duro State Park at
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<geoCoordinate id="37EC506FFFC93C44865DBE96FAE4FF47" box="[306,447,152,178]" direction="west" orientation="longitude" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" precision="92" value="-101.66">101°39.6'W</geoCoordinate>
collected on
<date id="26661068FFC93C448532BE96F859FF47" box="[605,770,152,178]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" value="2002-05-15">May 15, 2002</date>
by E. G. Riley (TAMU), are very similar to this species. Pygidial ornamentation and female genitalia of these Texas specimens are, however, sufficiently different from those of
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<emphasis id="60ACEABAFFC93C448652BEEBFAB7FF0B" box="[317,492,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">R. occidentalis</emphasis>
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, the most superficially similar (and potentially sympatric) species that we suspect them to represent an additional undescribed species. However, in this case we prefer to wait for the discovery of corresponding males from Texas before making a definite conclusion on their status.
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