Lucaina bajacalifornica ( Zaragoza, 2003 ) Ferreira & Ivie, 2018

Ferreira, Vinicius S. & Ivie, Michael A., 2018, A Review of the Nearctic Genus Lucaina Dugès, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Lycinae: Calochromini), with Descriptions of Two New Species, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3), pp. 393-406 : 401-402

Lucaina bajacalifornica ( Zaragoza, 2003) , new combination

( Figs. 4 , 11 , 19 , 26 )

Lygistopterus bajacalifornicus Zaragoza 2003: 8 . Macrolygistopterus bajacalifornicus ; Motyka et al. 2017: 64.

Type Material. 16 (Holotype): MEXICO: B. Cal. Sur.; 2 Km O Pto. Escondido; Ca~ non del Tabor; 13-IV.1994 Alt. 95m; Col. F.A. Noguera/ HOLOTIPO M/ Lygistopterus ; bajacalifornicus ; Zaragoza, 2003 [in red] ( UNAM). Photograph examined.

Diagnosis. Lucaina bajacalifornica can be identified among other Lucaina by the short rostrum and labrum with curved mandibles ( Fig. 11 ), the pronotum mostly black with median lateral margins yellow ( Fig. 4 ); and by the parameres parallel sided in basal portion, fusiform in apical portion, and apex of median lobe narrow ( Fig. 19 ).

Description. See original description in Zaragoza (2003).

Biology. Nothing is recorded for this species.

Distribution. Baja California Sur ( Fig. 26 ).

Figures

Figs. 1–7. Lucaina species, dorsal habitus. 1) L. schini (lectotype photograph from UNAM, used with permission); 2) L. marginata (lectotype); 3) L. discoidalis (lectotype photograph from MCZC, used with permission, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College); 4) L. bajacalifornica (holotype photograph from UNAM, used with permission); 5) L. greeni (holotype); 6) L. greeni (bluish black elytra); 7) L. milleri.

Figs. 8–13. Lucaina species, head, frontal view. 8) L. schini (lectotype photograph from UNAM, used with permission); 9) L. marginata (lectotype); 10) L. discoidalis (lectotype photograph from MCZC, used with permission, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College); 11) L. bajacalifornica (holotype photograph from UNAM, used with permission); 12) L. greeni (holotype); 13) L. milleri.

Figs. 16–21. Lucaina species, male genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, respectively. 16) L. schini; 17) L. marginata; 18) L. discoidalis; 19) L. bajacalifornica (holotype photograph from UNAM); 20) L. greeni; 21) L. milleri.

Figs. 26–27. Maps of the distribution of: 26) Lucaina milleri, Lucaina schini, Lucaina marginata, Lucaina discoidalis, and Lucaina bajacalifornica; 27) Lucaina greeni.