identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
713987CA5304D055FD024888FDD2FD89.text	713987CA5304D055FD024888FDD2FD89.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphallomorpha Westwood	<div><p>Genus Sphallomorpha Westwood</p><p>Westwood, 1837: 414. – For additional literature records and diagnosis see Baehr (1992).</p><p>Type species. Sphallomorpha decipiens Westwood, 1837, by monotypy.</p><p>Diagnosis. Wide, depressed species with prognathous head, elongate legs, comparatively complete chetotaxy, normal shaped, not foliaceous female gonocoxite, and not physogastric larvae. As far as it was recorded, all species of this genus are oviparous. In males the terminal sternum is excised, and in both sexes it bears a variable number of elongate setae at the apical margin.</p><p>Note. As Baehr (1994 a) demonstrated, Sphallomorpha in many character states is plesiomorphic as compared with the other pseudomorphine genera, and thus it represents the adelphotaxon of all other genera of Pseudomorphinae.</p><p>The genus Sphallomorpha presently includes 159 species of which only 8 occur outside of Australia in New Guinea (Baehr 1992, 1993a,b, 1994a,b, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009a,b, 2010, 2014, 2016). Species of Sphallomorpha usually are wide and rather depressed, they are either unicolourous black or piceous, or bear various, sometimes very vivid colour patterns on elytra and/or pronotum. In Australia they occur in a great variety of habitats, provided that some tree growth is present, but apparently they are very rare in rain forest. The Australian species are known to live under the loose bark of tree trunks of various eucalypts or in deep bark crevices on rough-barked eucalypt and non-eucalypt trees. They are extremely agile, fast running beetles which fly deliberately, but are quite rarely encountered at light. The larvae of the very few species of which the larvae were recorded, apparently live by ants (Moore 1974), but are not decidedly physogastric as are the recorded larvae of the other pseudomorphine genera (Baehr 1997).</p><p>Baehr (1992) divided the genus into a number of putative monophyletic species groups which combine species that share certain synapomorphic character states of the external or genitalic morphology. The species described in the present paper does not belong to anyone group of the revision, according to the combination of certain character states of external and female genitalic morphology.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/713987CA5304D055FD024888FDD2FD89	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Region, Australian;Baehr, Martin	Region, Australian, Baehr, Martin (2020): A new species of the genus Sphallomorpha Westwood from inland New South Wales, Australia. Spixiana 43 (1): 43-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16898774
713987CA5307D055FEFA4832FF16FB6C.text	713987CA5307D055FEFA4832FF16FB6C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphallomorpha vratislavi Region & Baehr 2020	<div><p>vratislavi group</p><p>Medium sized, depressed, almost unicolourous species with evenly rounded, explanate basal pronotal angle; labrum wide, 4-setose, anteriorly barely excised; tooth of mentum prominent; mentum bisetose; gular sutures rectangular; glossa quadrisetose; antenna elongate, slender; supraorbital and preorbital setae present; anterior and posterior marginal setae of pronotum present; elytra with 15 marginal setae; female terminal sternum with 4-6 setae on either side; gonocoxite large and compact, acute, with 2 nematiform seta, but without dorso-median and ventro-lateral ensiform setae.</p><p>A single species recorded from interior New South Wales.</p><p>Systematic position. This group is outstanding, because it combines external and genitalic character states of different species-groups. Particularly the chetotaxy of the dorsal and ventral surfaces and of the female gonocoxite is unique within the genus and excludes this group from all other groups within the genus.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/713987CA5307D055FEFA4832FF16FB6C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Region, Australian;Baehr, Martin	Region, Australian, Baehr, Martin (2020): A new species of the genus Sphallomorpha Westwood from inland New South Wales, Australia. Spixiana 43 (1): 43-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16898774
713987CA5307D054FF454F57FCB7F9B0.text	713987CA5307D054FF454F57FCB7F9B0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphallomorpha vratislavi Region & Baehr 2020	<div><p>Sphallomorpha vratislavi, sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2</p><p>Type material. Holotype: ♀, “ Australia, NSW, 8.Dec. 2007 Nombinnie NR., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=146.10983&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-32.96317" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 146.10983/lat -32.96317)">Mt.Hope</a> 27 km SW 32° 57 '47.4" S, 146 °06'35.4" E Allan M. Sundholm lgt. SetUp by Vr.R. -Colloredo-Mansfeld” (AMS) .</p><p>Etymology. The name is a patronym in honour of Vratislav Beyšák. The specific epithet is a substantive in the genitive case.</p><p>Diagnosis. Medium sized, depressed, unicolourous black species, but with rufous lateral margins of</p><p>promotum and elytra; with distinct mental tooth, rectangular gular suture, barely excised labrum, and with extremely faint, barely visible elytral striae. The combination of the chetotaxy of the dorsal and ventral surfaces and of the female gonocoxite is unique within the genus.</p><p>Description</p><p>Measurements. Length: 10.9 mm; width: 5.8 mm. Ratios: Width pronotum/head: 1.63; width elytra/ pronotum: 1.06; width/length of pronotum: 2.48; length/width of elytra; 1.17; length elytra/pronotum: 3.09.</p><p>Colour (Fig. 1). Rather glossy black, only labrum, mouth parts, antenna, and tarsi rufous; lateral margins of pronotum and elytra wide, rufous translucent.</p><p>Chetotaxy. Supraorb: 1; preorb: 1; clyp: 1; labr: 4; ment.med: 2; ment.lat: 6-7; gloss: 4; gul: 2; postorb: 3; suborb: 9-10; pron.ant: 1; pron.post: 1; proeps: 1 + 2-3; marg: 15; st VI: 2; ♁ st VII:?; ♀ st VII: 4-6 .</p><p>Head. Narrow in comparison to pronotum, short, fairly depressed, without distinct frontal impressions. Eye large but laterad barely projected. Clypeus almost straight, clypeal suture barely indicated.Lateral border of head very oblique, strongly convex, slightly incurved in front of eye. Labrum moderately wide, laterally convex, anteriorly straight, in middle barely excised.Mentum with distinct unidentate mental tooth. Wings of mentum wide, apex rounded, medially oblique. Glossa feebly excised, barely excavate, border obtuse. Dorsal part barely surpassing ventral, medially slightly excised, with few short hairs. Gular sutures strongly angulate. Terminal palpomere of labial palpus elongate, barely widened apicad, with oblique apex; terminal palpomere of maxillary palpus elongate, almost parallel-sided, apex slightly oblique. Antenna very narrow and elongate, median antennomeres c. 4 × as long as wide. Microreticulation of surface dense, extremely fine though distinct, isodiametric, minute punctures dense, but very difficult to detect within the micromeshes. Surface with a few indistinct strioles inside of the eyes, with very sparse, short, erect pilosity, rather dull. Palpi very sparsely pilose.Galea with some very short hairs along anterior border and at apex. Ventral surface apparently impilose.</p><p>Pronotum. Very wide, moderately convex, triangular but slightly convex, lateral margins explanate. Apex much narrower than base, with deep excision. Anterior angle projected, rather acute.Lateral margin evenly convex, widest immediately in front of the posterior marginal seta.Basal angle widely rounded. Base almost straight. Lateral margin anteriorly with distinct border line which becomes very fine towards base. Apex and base only laterally very finely bordered. No discal impressions visible. Microreticulation very dense and fine, slightly silky, isodiametric, minute punctures dense, barely perceptible, surface almost devoid of strioles, with sparse, short, erect pilosity, rather dull.</p><p>Elytra. Rather short, slightly longer than wide, rather parallel-sided, widest about at middle, dorsally rather depressed.Lateral margin almost straight in slightly more than basal half, posteriad evenly convex, moderately explanate. Apex fairly wide, slightly oblique and faintly convex. Even the median striae barely perceptible. Series of marginal pores slightly spaced in middle. Microreticulation distinct, isodiametric, dense, slightly coarser than on head and pronotum. Punctures rather dense but almost invisible within the microreticulation. Surface with very sparse, short, erect pilosity, moderately glossy.</p><p>Lower surface. Prosternal process elongate, narrow, apex almost straight; ventral surface convex, straight to apex, bisetose. Metepisternum c. twice as long as wide at apex. Terminal abdominal sternum in female slightly convex.</p><p>Legs. Elongate and very slender. Metatarsus as long as metatibia. 1 st tarsomere of metatarsus as long as 2 nd and 3 rd tarsomeres together. Squamosity of male protarsus unknown.</p><p>Male genitalia. Unknown.</p><p>Female gonocoxites (Fig. 2). Gonocoxite 1 elongate, apex with few setae. Gonocoxite 2 short and robust, triangular, apicad curved, with acute apex; ventral surface densely setose; without dorso-median and ventro-lateral ensiform setae, but with two attached, elongate, nematiform setae in apical third which originate from an elongate pit.</p><p>Variation. Unknown.</p><p>Distribution. Central New South Wales, Australia. Known only from the type locality.</p><p>Biology. Not recorded. Probably a bark inhabiting species like its congeners.</p><p>Acknowledgement</p><p>I am indebted to Vratislav Bejsák (Sydney) for the kind loan of the specimen.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/713987CA5307D054FF454F57FCB7F9B0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Region, Australian;Baehr, Martin	Region, Australian, Baehr, Martin (2020): A new species of the genus Sphallomorpha Westwood from inland New South Wales, Australia. Spixiana 43 (1): 43-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16898774
