Muisca magdalena, Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston, 2018

Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston, 2018, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Subfamily Peloniinae O (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IX. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Muisca S, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 587-653 : 620-621

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4004283

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4339286

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA3F7E-FFE8-FF93-0CF3-B0AAFCCEC675

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Valdenar

scientific name

Muisca magdalena
status

nov.sp.

Muisca magdalena OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 31 View Figs 14-33 , 67, 96, 144)

Holotype: ♀. COLOMBIA, Magdalena PNN, SN de Santa Marta, Bella Vista , 10°48'N 73°39'W, 1500 m, Malaise, 7.V-1-VI-2001, J. Cantillo ( FSCA) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 3 specimens. Colombia: Departamento de Magdalena, Magdalena PNN, SN de Santa Marta , Bella Vista , 10°48'N 73°39'W, 7.V-1-VI-2001, 1500 m, Malaise, J. Cantillo ( WOPC, 1) GoogleMaps ; idem, 22-X-7-XI-2001, 1500 m, Malaise, J. Cantillo ( WOPC, 2) GoogleMaps .

D i a g n o s i s: Within the M. octonotata group, only in specimens of M. magdalena do we find the midelytral fascia fragmented into 4 punctiform components.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.3 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 144 View Figs 141-144 . Color: Light castaneous, except each elytron with 6 black spots, 2 near the humeral angle and 4 near elytral middle. Head: Basal funicular antennomeres filiform, distal funicular antennomeres progressively shorter and more triangular, capitulum about as long as combined length of funicular antennomeres, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular ( Fig. 31 View Figs 14-33 ), antennomere 11 globose; frons wider than width of eye ( EW /FW 20/35). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 67) quadrate ( PW /PL 83/83), side margin with well-developed tubercle, disc subglabrous at middle; elytral asetiferous punctation minute, striate to distal 2/3 rd ( EL /EW 250/60). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

V a r i a t i o n: Length 5.0-6.0 mm; width 2.0- 2.5 mm. Other than body size, the available beetles are quite homogeneous.

N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during May, June, October, and November, some in a Malaise trap, at altitudes ranging from 1500 to 1700 m.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, magdalena, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig.96 View Fig ): This species is known only from Colombia.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Muisca

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