Gonaphodioides cartwrighti Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon 2013, new species
Description
Gonaphodioides cartwrighti new species
(Fig. 1-6)
Type locality. Monte Cristo. El Salvador.
Type repository. United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A.
Description. Length 3.5-4.0 mm, elongate, convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Piceous black; clypeal margin and pronotal sides reddish brown; elytra variously yellowish spotted; legs reddish brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome moderately convex on disc, slightly depressed medially toward clypeal margin, evenly, rather coarsely punctured, punctation somewhat sparser on disc; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous; genae round, not ciliate, slightly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture almost obsolete. Pronotum transverse, convex, shiny, dually punctured; large punctures, four to five times larger than contiguous small ones, irregularly sparse on sides; small punctures, somewhat variable in size, coarser on sides, superficial and finer on disc, evenly sparse throughout; lateral margins feebly arcuate, almost parallel toward the base, rather thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles truncate and truncation inward sinuate; base bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum elongate, irregularly punctured basally. Elytra oval elongate, slightly widened posteriorly, minutely denticulate at shoulder; striae rather strongly coarsely punctured, crenulate; interstriae feebly convex, superficially alutaceous, finely sparsely but distinctly punctured. Hind tibiae superior spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter longer than following three segments combined. Male: head and pronotum relatively less densely and coarsely punctured; metasternal plate excavate; aedeagus Fig. 4-5. Female: head and pronotum relatively more densely and coarsely punctured; metasternal plate almost flat.
Type material. EL SALVADOR: Monte Cristo, 07-09.V.1958, leg. O. L. Cartwright (holotype, male, allotype and 1 paratype, USNM; 2 paratypes, DCGI).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5175783 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5175781 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8A1B0026FC67111FFF98FFF1CE1CFFA8 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/7AB65FAF-4DDA-4F58-B75A-8A8CD109B125 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/7622785EFC65111CFF58FA14CD9AFDD2 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM, DCGI
- Event date
- 1958-05-07
- Family
- Aphodiidae
- Genus
- Gonaphodioides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon
- Species
- cartwrighti
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1958-05-07/09
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gonaphodioides cartwrighti Dellacasa, Dellacasa & Gordon, 2013