Pareucamptonyx zulianus

Pareucamptonyx zulianus (Olmi, 1986)

Figs 8, 11

Gonatopus zulianus Olmi, 1986: 96. Female, holotype. Venezuela: Zulia, Tucuco (EMUS, examined through photographs).

Pareucamptonyx costaricanus Olmi, 1991: 376. Female, holotype. Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve (AMNH, examined through photographs).

Apterous, body length 3.25 mm. Body predominantly black, except mandible, scape and pedicel testaceous; flagellomeres 1–7 brown, and 8 th whitish (Fig. 8A, C–D); legs dark brown testaceous andtarsomeres testaceous; metasoma dark brown and black. Head smooth, shiny, and finely punctate; frontal line incomplete (Fig. 8C), only present in front of anterior ocellus; occipital carina absent. Flagellomeres 6–8 with rhinaria. Pronotum smooth and shiny; mesoscutum shiny, smooth, with longitudinal striae, without lateral pointed apophyses (Olmi & Virla 2014: fig. 215a–b). Propodeum with anterior and posterior surfaces shiny, smooth, and posterior surface transversely striate (Fig. 8A, C–D). Enlarged claw with distal apex rounded, not pointed, without subdistal tooth, with one row of 6–9 bristles (Olmi & Virla 2014: fig. 215C–D). Fifth protarsomere with two rows of 16–20 lamellae (Olmi & Virla 2014: fig. 215c–d); distal apex with 20–33 lamellae.

Holotype of Pareucamptonyx zulianus Olmi, 1986

VENEZUELA • ♀; “Tucuco, Zulia,\ Venez. IV.28.81\ H. K. Townes ” “Type\ 1703” “Holotype\ Gonatopus \ zulianus Olmi ”; EMUS.

Holotype of Pareucamptonyx costaricanus Olmi, 1991

COSTA RICA • ♀; “Costa Rica, Puntar \ Golfo Dulce 24Km W\ Piedras Blancas, 200m \ VI-VIII-1989 Hanson” “ Pareucamptonyx \ zulianus \ M. OLMI det. 96” “Holotypus\ Pareucamptonyx \ costaricanus n. sp. \ 1990 M. OLMI Det.”; AMNH.

Additional material

BRAZIL – São Paulo • 1 ♀; “ BRASIL, SP, São Luiz do Paraitinga,\ Parque Estadual Serra Mar \ Núcleo Santa Virgínia,\ 23°19’24.8”S / 45°05’40.1”W,\ Malaise trap, 23.XI.2009,\ N.W. Perioto et al. leg.”; LRRP.

Bolivia (Olmi & Virla 2014; Martins et al. 2015a), Brazil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states), Costa Rica, Venezuela and French Guiana (Fig. 11).

Pareucamptonyx zulianus resembles P. townesi as the antenna has the 8 th flagellomere whitish and the mesoscutum without lateral pointed apophyses (Fig. 4D–E). However, P. zulianus differs by the presence of a frontal line and the inner margin of 5 th protarsomere with 16–20 lamellae (Olmi & Virla 2014: fig. 215c–d).