Afrocerophytum vix, Costa, Cleide, Vanin, Sergio A. & Rosa, Simone P., 2014

Costa, Cleide, Vanin, Sergio A. & Rosa, Simone P., 2014, Description of a new genus and species of Cerophytidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Africa with a cladistic analysis of the family, Zootaxa 3878 (3), pp. 248-260 : 252-253

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.3.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5625862
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C87B6-BD21-7858-31C5-FB62FCF2FE47
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Afrocerophytum vix
status	sp. nov.

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Afrocerophytum vix sp. nov.

( Figs. 1–23 View FIGURES 1 ‒ 2 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 View FIGURES 5 – 6 View FIGURES 7 – 10 View FIGURES 11 – 16 View FIGURES 17 – 19 View FIGURES 20 – 22 View FIGURE 23 )

Type material. Holotype ♂. IVORY COAST, ‘‘Region de Tai, environs du village de Gouleako’’, V. von Zeijst & Robert cols., 16.II.1987 ( MNHN). Paratypes ♀. EQUATORIAL GUINEA (ex˗" Guinea Española "), Evinayong 1 female, Dr L. Báguena col. ( MNCN ˗ CSIC); Nkolentangan, 1 female collection of Ivo Jenis from Prague, Czech Republic. GABON. Ogové River (= Ogooué River Valley), 1 female A. C. Good col, ex˗ Holland Coll. ( CMNH).

Length: male ( Figs 1, 2 View FIGURES 1 ‒ 2 ) 6.2 mm; females ( Figs 5, 6 View FIGURES 5 – 6 ) 8.1–8.4 mm. General coloration: head, elytra, legs and ventral region yellowish brown; pronotum reddish brown, antennae velvet black with two first segments yellowish brown ( Figs. 3, 4 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 ). Interocular distance to head width = 0.39. Frons convex; frontal punctures shallow ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 ); anterior and posterior carinae absent ( Fig.3 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 ). Antenna of male: antennomere III–X serrate ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 ) (III = 1.1X, IV–IX= 1.3X, X=1.2X as long as wide); antennomere XI elongate oval, 2.0 times as long as wide. Antenna of female: antennomere III–X serrate ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 5 – 6 ) (III–IV= 1.1 times, V–X = 1.3–1.4 times as long as wide); antennomere XI elongate oval, 1.7 times as long as wide. Apical maxillary palpomere ( Fig.8 View FIGURES 7 – 10 ) similar in male and female, securiform, about 0.5 as long as wide.

Pronotum ( Fig.1 View FIGURES 1 ‒ 2 , 3 View FIGURES 3 ‒ 4 ) convex; subrectangular; about 0.60X as long as wide (male), and 0.65X (female); sides rounded, widest about middle; sides gradually converging anteriorly and posteriorly, anterior margin gently sinuous; posterior angles not produced laterally; disc with homogeneous coalescent punctures, median depression evident, median carina absent. Prosternum ( Fig.7 View FIGURES 7 – 10 ): Chin piece truncate ( Fig.7 View FIGURES 7 – 10 ). Elytra ( Figs.1 View FIGURES 1 ‒ 2 , 5 View FIGURES 5 – 6 ) 0.7–0.8X as long as body length, each 3.7–4.1X as long as wide, without additional row, interstria IX weakly convex. Scutellum subtriangular, transverse, apex rounded. Profemur without longitudinal carina (posterior surface), upper distal angle acute and produced. Bases of tergite IX and sternite IX free, not fused ( Fig.10 View FIGURES 7 – 10 . Aedeagus ( Figs.11–19 View FIGURES 11 – 16 View FIGURES 17 – 19 ): Penis about 4.4X as long as broad, apex acuminate, phallobase 1.2X as long as wide, anterior margin not emarginated, borders sclerotized, posterior process about 2.8X as long as base length of phallobase; parameres: basal region with hook˗like structure, distal region unilobate, and partially membranous, each apex slightly turned outwards. Female reproductive system: ovipositor ( Figs. 20–23 View FIGURES 20 – 22 View FIGURE 23 ) long and narrow, baculi 5.9X as long as length of coxites; coxites completely divided in ventral view and partially in dorsal view; stylus 0.18X as long as coxites, apex with three setae; tenth sternite reduced, slender, apex lanceolate and located between coxites; bursa copulatrix well developed, without sclerites; two globular and not very sclerotized spermathecae.