Alyma quiriquinaensi Arias, 2004

Arias, Elizabeth T., 2004, A New Click Beetle Genus from Chilean Temperate Forests, ALYMA (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Pomachiliini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 58 (3), pp. 413-427 : 413-427

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1649/523
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C94F87CD-0126-FFB7-1BF2-FBE9FC2FFB51
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Alyma quiriquinaensi Arias
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Alyma quiriquinaensi Arias , new species

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Description. Body: stout; brown; integument dull; vestiture pale yellowish semi-decumbent; length 6.1 mm, width 2.1 mm; PEI: 2.6.

Head: convex; frontoclypeal carina region sloping downward; clypeus and labrum with long setae semi-decumbent; labrum slightly convex, 2 3 as long as wide; antennomera 2 through 8 serrate, antennomere 9 exceeding pronotal posterior angles, [AP: 7-6-10-10-11-13-12-9-10-12], ( Fig. 11 View Figs ).

Prothorax: strongly convex medially; areolate, sides parallel-sided; longitudinal depression over posterior half of pronotum; base curved; pronotal posterior angles divergent; prosternal lobe strongly bent; prosternum strongly convex; tip of posterior angle bent towards inside; pronotosternal lobe marginate, broadly curved; pronotosternal suture sinuate, without an accompanying grooved along its side; hypomeron rugulose, uni-excavate, apically not marginate, antennal groove present ( Fig. 19 View Figs ); prosternum at procoxae marginate, and slightly elevated; procoxal distance 2.0 3 procoxal diameter, pronotosternal spine length 0.7 3 procoxal diameter.

Scutellum : U-shaped, vestiture decumbent, long, yellow; mesocoxae separated by 0.3 3 mesocoxal diameter; posterior margin of mesosternal cavity extending posteriorly 0.4 3 mesocoxal diameter.

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424 calafquenensis ; 25) A. contulmoensis ; 26) A. lawlerae ; 27) A. rieseorum ; 28) A. shapiroi . Scale

bar ¼ 0.5 mm.

Elytra: interstria rugulose, slightly convex; striae pitted, pits irregular; elytral apex rounded. Leg: yellowish brown; the specimen lacks tarsomere.

Male genitalia: aedeagus 2.5 3 as long as wide; median lobe parallel-sided; base of parameres straight, ( Fig. 32 View Figs ).

Type Material. Holotype: male, CHILE, Quiriquina , 2-44; 6.1 mm in length, [ MNNC].

Distribution. Quiriquina Island, VIII Region. Chile, ( Fig. 34 View Fig ).

Remarks. Alyma quiriquinaensis can be recognized by its brown color, dull integument and yellowish vestiture semi-decumbent, and divergent posterior pronotal angles.

Etymology. This species is named after the place Quiriquina where it was collected.