Notopilo cambageicola Bartlett & Lambkin 2022, sp. nov.

Notopilo cambageicola sp. nov.

ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 85BE70A2-6A76-4F0E-9915-FC3142277B75

(Figs 48, 86, 121, 162; Map 4)

HOLOTYPE (sex not determined): Queensland: Qld: 28.94° Sx 146.918°E Culgoa Floodplain NP 7km NNW Toulby Gate. (CG4 AM) 18 Nov–17 Dec 2009 160m. Malaise Gidgee. C. Lambkin, A. Coward, N. Starick, C. Kelly 19257 (QM, type reg. T258552). PARATYPES (22): Queensland: Qld: 28.719° Sx 144.491°E Currawinya NP, HQ, 12.8km N (CW8 M) 141m. Malaise 18 Feb-4 Mar 2009. D. McKellar, A.Townsend, open clay pan 18147 (1 ♀, 1, QM); Qld: 28.872° Sx 144.502°E Currawinya NP, Woolshed (CW1 M) 1-12 Dec 2008. 136m. Malaise. Mulga A. Townsend J. Burke 18116 (1, QM); Qld: Currawinya NP (CW1). Woolshed 136m. Mulga 28.872° Sx 144.502°E 15Dec2007 - 21Jan2008. Lambkin, Townsend, Starick. Malaise 16247 (1 ♁, 2, QM); Qld: Currawinya NP, 4kmNW HQ (CW3). 28.813° Sx 144.462°E Mulga 15Dec2007 - 8Feb2008. Lambkin, Townsend, Starick. Malaise 16249 (1 ♁, 2, QM); Qld: 26.541° Sx 142.516°E Plevna Downs, 2.3km SSW Arima (PD2 M) Malaise. 13 Jan-3 Apr 2008. 132m. R.Mackenzie. Gidgee 17284 (3, QM); Qld: 26.728° Sx 142.651°E Plevna Downs, Tompilly Hill Base (PD6 M) 187m 24Apr-24Jul 2008. G Turner, R Mackenzie. Malaise. Gidgee. 17320. (1, QM); Qld: 26.786° Sx 142.648°E 12.7km SSE Plevna Downs HS (PD8 M) 145m. 15 Mar-4 Apr 2009. R. Mackenzie. Malaise on Sandy creek bank. 17348 (1, QM); Qld: 26°43.8′ Sx 142°39.0′E Plevna Downs, Tompilly Hill Base. 13Dec2007 - 13Jan2008. C. Lambkin, N. Starick & R. Mackenzie. 15999. Malaise trap, gidgee, gibbers. (2, QM); Qld: 29.054° Sx 147.023°E Culgoa NP, 4.5km WNW Cawwell HS, Claypan. (CGN3M) Malaise Gidgee. 21 Dec 2009 - 30 Jan 2010. B. Scheibaan. 19310 (1 ♁, 5, QM).

Additional material: New South Wales: NSW: 29.054° Sx 147.023°E Culgoa NP, 4.5km WNW Cawwell HS, Claypan (CGN3M) Malaise. Gidgee 21Dec 2009 - 30Jan 2010. B.Schiebaan 19310 (1 ♀, QM); NSW: 29.047°Sx146.996°E Culgoa NP, 8km WNW Cawwell HS, Diemunga Lagoon (CGN2M) Coolibah 30Jan-18May2010. Malaise C.Lambkin, R.Ohlsen B.Schiebaan. 19322 (1 ♁, QM).

Diagnosis. Pronotum rounded; disc punctate though smooth in general appearance; central impression conspicuous; tumescent areas either side of central impression indistinct; elytra dark with orange maculae (each elytron with a small, faint, humeral macula, a large central fasciate macula which converges towards the suture and an apical macula which meets the external and sutural margins); punctation with conspicuous lateral nodules; 8 th stria beginning near base, between 1 st and 3 rd punctation of 7 th stria or, less commonly, 8 th stria longer than 7 th; most striae reaching apical macula; striae with a single seta across interstrial width; femora yellow and brown; tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads.

Description. Habitus: Fig. 162. Total length: 5.9–10 mm (holotype, 8.4 mm). Head: Vertex and frons black, clypeus and supra-antennal elevations reddish-brown, anteclypeus semi-transparent orange, labrum, antennae and palpi orange to orange-brown, venter dark brown, gula paler; eyes separated by about 0.75–0.97 eye widths (holotype, 0.9); vertex and upper part of frons strongly punctate-rugulose laterally, sculpturing weaker medially, lower part of frons (above epistomal suture) with weak lateral punctures, slightly raised in middle; clypeus without strong punctation; genae and submentum wrinkled; exterior margins of terminal palpomeres about 1.75 times (maxillae) and 2.1 times (labium) the length of inside edges; antennae not reaching base of pronotum; eyes and cranium with long and short pale erect setae, frons and vertex with occassional long erect setae and dense short medially-directed setae. Prothorax: Disc dark brown, pronotal collar and arch paler, prosternum and basal collar orange-brown; pronotum about 1.2–1.33 times longer than wide (holotype, 1.3), sides rounded, middle as wide as pronotal arch; subapical depression deeply v-shaped; central impression deep, open; disc smooth in general appearance, weakly punctate dorsally, moderately punctate dorsolaterally and laterally, sculpturing around punctation irregularly wrinkled; preapical tumescence weak; lateral impression inconspicuous; disc with short multi-directional setae and erect setae. Pterothorax: Ventrites brown, with fine mostly posteriorly-directed setae; elytra dark brown with orange markings (each elytron with a small faint humeral macula, a large central fasciate maculation which is curved at, or converging towards, the suture, plus an apical maculation which meets the external and sutural margins), length to width ratio 2.43–2.6:1 (holotype, 2.43:1); 8 th stria beginning near base, between 1 st and 3 rd punctation of 7 th stria or, less commonly, 8 th stria longer than 7 th, most striae reaching apical macula (striae may be disrupted before apical macula); punctation circular with conspicuous lateral nodules; epipleurae extending into apical maculae; interstriae with short erect to semi-erect setae (at least one per puncture), plus occassional longer erect setae, striae with a single seta across interstrial width, intrafoveal setae short; hindwing with CuA 3+4 cross-vein complete, CuA 1 cross-vein present or absent, MP 3+4 absent basad of CuA 1 crossvein. Legs: Approximately basal half of pro- and mesofemora and basal two-thirds of metafemora yellow, remaining parts of femora brown; tibiae and tarsi brown, tibial carinae darker; ventral tarsal pads yellowish; profemora slightly more swollen than other femora. Abdomen: Ventrites yellowish to orange-brown. Male genitalia: Tegmen (Fig. 48), parameroid lobes slightly narrower than middle, tapering to a point, dorsal sinus about one-third tegmen length, inner margins narrower than internal limit, opening between one and two times the width of internal limit, ventral sinus about one-third as long as dorsal sinus, length of apodeme about one-quarter tegmen length; median lobe as in Fig. 86; pygidium as in Fig. 121.

Etymology. The specific epithet cambageicola refers to the gidgee (Acacia cambagei) habitat in which much of the type series was collected (with the suffix ‘-cola’ meaning dweller or inhabitant).

Biology. Most specimens were caught using Malaise traps set up between November and May. Some traps were set up in gidgee (Acacia cambagei) and mulga (Acacia aneura and related species) habitat.

Distribution (Map 4). Notopilo cambageicola sp. nov. is known from Culgoa Floodplains and Currawinya National Parks along the Queensland and New South Wales border, plus Plevna Downs Station in western Queensland.