Onychotillus minutus de Zayas, 1988

Opitz, Weston, 2022, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (913), pp. 1-16 : 4

Onychotillus minutus de Zayas, 1988

Figure 15 .

Type material. Syntype series: 9 specimens. Type locality: Cuba, Provincia de Guantanamo, Yateras ( FDZC). Zayas did not specify in his description which specimen should be the name bearer of this species. Until the specimens are available for study, a lectotype cannot be designated until statements can be made to positively identify the lectotype from the others ( ICZN 1999, Article 74.7).

Diagnosis. Cranium, pronotum, legs flavotestaceous, antenna black, elytra brown. These characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

Redescription. Size. Length 3.0 mm; width 0.7 mm. Form. As in Fig. 15 . Color. Cranium, pronotum, legs flavotestaceous, antenna black, elytra and abdomen brown. Head. Cranium finely punctate, eyes prominent, frons much wider than length of pedicel; EW/FW 10/30. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, minimally expanded at middle 1/2; subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow; PW/PL 40/40; elytra punctations striate, striae reduced near elytral apex; EL/EW 150/70; short elytral setae decumbent, long elytral setae recumbent. Abdomen. Aedeagus not available for study.

Variation. Size. The available specimens are quite homogenous.

Distribution. This species is known from Cuba. I examined two specimens from the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba, Yaturita (FDZC).

Figures

Figures 15–17. Habitus of Onychotillus species. 15) Onychotillus minutus. 16) O. vittatus. 17) O. woodruffi.