Selenophorus mundus species group

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 48-49

Selenophorus mundus species group

Recognition.

Small species, shiny, with faint to moderate metallic luster, posteriolateral angles of pronotum moderately coarsely punctate or impunctate.

SBL. Males, 3.60-4.60 mm; females, 3.82-5.32 mm.

Color. Antennae testaceous to rufo-testaceous or with one, two or three basal antennomeres testaceous, remaining antennomeres darker. Mouthparts and legs testaceous. Head and pronotum rufo-brunneous to dark brunneous; elytra brunneous to brunneo-piceous; elytral epipleuron paler than disc.

Luster. Pronotum with bluish metallic luster or without metallic luster. Elytra with greenish iridescence or with very faint to moderate cupreous metallic luster.

Dorsal microsculpture. Head and pronotum shiny, microlines not visible at 100 × or microlines visible at 100 ×, isodiametric on head, slightly transverse on pronotum, sculpticells about 1.5 –2× wide as long. Elytra shiny, microlines not visible at 100 ×, or with mesh pattern transverse, sculpticells about 2 –4× wide as long.

Male genitalia. Apical portion of phallic median lobe moderately long, broadly triangular, symmetrically rounded in dorsal/ventral aspect, tip curved up dorsally; endophallus without spines or dark microtrichial fields; without lamina. Ventral surface of shaft smooth.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Gonocoxite 2 moderately thick, somewhat falcate. Bursa copulatrix short; spermatheca sausage-like, originating near base of common oviduct; moderately long to long spermathecal gland duct originating near or below mid-length of spermatheca. Spermathecal gland small, bulbous, with swelling of duct, larger than gland, basad gland.

Included species.

The mundus species group includes three species: S. mundus Putzeys, S. paramundus Ball and Shpeley and S. pseudomundus Ball and Shpeley.

Geographical distribution.

This species group is known only from the Greater Antillean islands of Hispaniola and Jamaica.