Valeriaaschero flora Erwin

Erwin, Terry L., 2004, The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panamá: Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 537, pp. 1-18 : 15

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.157896

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6273480

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Valeriaaschero flora Erwin
status

sp. nov.

Valeriaaschero flora Erwin View in CoL , new species

( Figs. 9 View FIGURE 9 , 10 View FIGURE 10 , 13 View FIGURE 13 )

Holotype. Male. COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, P.N. Guanacaste, Estación Pitilla, Santa Cecilia, 700 m, 10° 59' 33" N, 085° 25' 46' W, LN330200,380200, November (C. Moraga)( INBio: CRI 001162521).

Derivation of specific name. Members of this species occur in the tree species Goethalsis meiantha (Donn. Sm.) Burret, hence the Latin noun used in apposition, flora , implies something of their way of life.

Common name. Valeria’s violet arboreal carabid.

Diagnosis. With the attributes of the genus and vertex of head dark rufous, antennal scape infuscated, and elytra metallic coppery violaceous or brassy green depending upon angle of view.

Description. ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 ). Size medium: ABL = 5.9 to 6.4 mm, SBL = 5.7 to 5.9 mm, TW = 2.4 to 2.6 mm. Color: Pronotum brassy green; elytra metallic coppery violaceous or brassy green; head with vertex rufous; appendages and venter partially infuscated, partially dark rufous. Luster: Very shiny, color reflections change depending upon angle of view. Microsculpture: Effaced from dorsal surfaces. Head: Slightly wider than pronotum across eyes; frontal furrows markedly impressed to posterior margin of eyes; frons with convex callous at middle; eyes large, markedly produced; ultimate labial palpomere securiform; antennae of moderate length, reaching just posterior of humerus. Prothorax: Narrow, quadrate, markedly convex, margins moderately explanate, sinuate before moderately produced acute hind angles. Pterothorax: Normal for Agrina, fully winged. Legs: Normal for Agrina. Abdomen: Normal for Agrina; glabrous, except normal ambulatory setae on sterna 3­5 and males with one pair of ambulatory setae on sternum 6, females with two pairs on sternum 6. Male genitalia: Phallus — tubular, catopic, apex long and narrow, endophallus without armature, parameres small, left more so than right ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ).

Dispersal potential. These beetles are fully winged and likely are good dispersers, as are most arboreal beetles.

Way of life. These beetles belong in a subtribal level clade in which all the species are arboreal. One specimen (CRI002729942) was fogged from the tree Goethalsis meiantha (Donn. Sm.) Burret, as part of the ALAS Project at La Selva.

Other specimens examined. Paratypes, 1 female: COSTA RICA:, Heredia, 3.0 km S Puerto Viejo, Estación Biologica La Selva, 50–150 m, 10° 25' 55" N, 84° 00' 32" W, LN535500,268000 May (Proyecto Alas)(INBio­OET: CRI 002729942); 1 male: Heredia, 3.0 km S Puerto Viejo, Estación Biologica La Selva, 50–150 m, 10° 25' 55" N, 84° 00' 32" W, LN535500,268000 July (N. Franz)( SEMC: ADP 100407); 1 male: PANAMA, Bocas del Toro, Corriente Grande, 100 m, 9° 17’ 30” N, 082° 32’ 41” W, January (Stockwell)( NMNH: ADP59903).

Geographic distribution. ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ). Known only from Costa Rica and northwestern Panamá.

INBio

National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Rica

CRI

Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Bairro Universitário

SEMC

University of Kansas - Biodiversity Institute

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Valeriaaschero

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