Aphelocerus argus, OPITZ, 2005
|
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9952-1133-FF12-FF4FFD4FFDE6 |
|
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
|
scientific name |
Aphelocerus argus |
| status |
sp. nov. |
Aphelocerus argus , new species Figures 68 View Figs , 124 View Figs , 172 View Figs ; map 25
HOLOTYPE: Male. Rio Sn Lorenzo , Tierras Morenas, Tenorio, A. C. A, Prov. Guana, Costa Rica, 1050 m, Mar. 1994, G. Rodriguez, L N 287800–427600 # 276 ( INBC). (Specimen point mounted, sex label affixed to paper point, white, hand printed; support card; locality label, white, machine printed; plastic electronic label, white, machine print ed; INBC repository label, white, machine printed; holotype label, red, machine print ed.)
PARATYPES: Eight specimens. Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Santa Elena, 6V1985, A. J. Gilbert ( CDAE, 1; WOPC, 1) ; Monteverde , 1400 m, 28IV1979, H. & A. Howden ( CMNC, 1) ; 20–24VI1986, N. Youssef ( WOPC, 1) ; 16–19VI1995, F. Hovore ( JNRC, 1) ; Buen Amigo, San Luis Monteverde , 1000–1350 m ; XI1994, Z. Fuentes ( WOPC, 1): Cartago : 5 km NE Pacayas, 1310 m, 25V1995, beating roadside vegetation, J. Rifkind, H. Lezama ( JNRC, 1; WOPC, 1) .
DIAGNOSIS: Specimens from Costa Rica that have the elytral middiscal setal tuft reduced to very few setae belong to this species.
DESCRIPTION: Size: Length 5.0– 5.5 mm; width 2.2–2.8 mm. Integument: Head, pronotum, pterothorax, and abdomen cyanescent; elytral and legs piceous. Vestiture: Integument vested predominantly with dark setae, few pale setae; elytra middiscal setal tuft comprised of one small compact patch (fig. 172). Head: Width across eyes narrower than width across pronotum (33:37), coarsely punctate; interocular depression and frontal umbo indistinct; eyes subspherical, moderately convex; antenna shorter than pronotum (30:40), as in figure 68. Thorax: Pronotum subequal in width and length (37:40), narrower than width of elytra across humeri (37: 42); coarsely punctated in region anterior to faintly indicated anterior transverse depression, side margins moderately arcuate; depth at humerus 15, greatest depth in posterior half 18. Abdomen: Pygidial posterior margin evenly arcuate; aedeagus as in figure 124.
VARIATION: No noteworthy variation was observed among the specimens examined.
NATURAL HISTORY: Specimens were collected in January, May, June, and July, at altitudes ranging from 1000 to 1400 m. Two specimens were captured by beating roadside vegetation.
DISTRIBUTION (map 25): Known only from the Costa Rica Provinces of Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Cartago ; some from Monteverde.
ETYMOLOGY: The trivial name is a Greek adjective meaning shining. I refer to the shiny surface of the pronotal and elytral discs.
| INBC |
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) |
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.