Coarazuphium

Pellegrini, Thais Giovannini & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes, 2014, Ultrastructural analysis and polymorphisms in Coarazuphium caatinga (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Zuphiini), a new Brazilian troglobitic beetle, Zootaxa 3765 (6), pp. 526-540 : 537-538

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.6.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BEAB1D92-7452-4523-B6C5-DDF68D3CB224

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139020

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F03F0900-4F36-FF8E-E4B9-F94B5884651D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Coarazuphium
status

 

Key to species of the genus Coarazuphium View in CoL (modify from Ball & Shpeley 2013)

1. Anophthalmous. Maximum width of elytra near middle. Male genitalia: right paramere styliform, about as long as left paramere......................................................... C. cessaima Gnaspini, Vanin & Godoy, 1998 View in CoL

- Microphthalmous. Maximum width of elytra near middle, or posteriad middle. Male genitalia: right paramere styliform or not, distinctly shorter than left paramere....................................................................... 2

2. Elytron with apical margin truncate, not sinuate. Male right paramere styliform or broad............................. 3

- Elytron with apical margin sinuate. Male right paramere broad, not styli- form, distinctly shorter than left paramere....... 5

3. Head dorsally without setae posteriad the anterior supraorbital setae............ C. tapiaguassu Pellegrini & Ferreira, 2011 View in CoL

- Head dorsally with one to three pairs of setae posteriad the anterior supraorbital setae...............................4

4. Labrum with anterior margin broadly concave. Prosternal setae two pair. Maximum width (of elytra) posteriad transverse mid- line. Male right paramere broad, not styliform, distinctly shorter than left paramere. Brazil...................................................................................................... C. pains Álvares & Ferreira, 2002 View in CoL

- Labrum with anterior margin irregularly convex. Prosternal setae one pair. Male right paramere styliform, more than half length of left paramere. Mexico.............................................. C. whiteheadi Ball & Shpeley, 2013 View in CoL

5. Head dorsally with a single pair of setae posteriad the anterior supraorbital setae. Male left paramere styliform....................................................................................... C. tessai ( Godoy & Vanin, 1990) View in CoL

- Head dorsally with two pairs of setae posteriad the anterior supraorbital setae...................................... 6

6. Head dorsally with two pairs of setae (posterior supraorbitals and occipitals,) at posterior border of head capsule. Male left paramere broad, conchoids............................................ C. bezerra Gnaspini, Vanin & Godoy, 1998 View in CoL

- Without the above combination of characters................................................................ 7

7. Slight apical sinuosity of elytron ( Figs. 12 View FIGURE 12 A–C)................................ C. formoso Pellegrini & Ferreira 2011 View in CoL

- Pronounced apical sinuosity of elytron ( Figs. 12 View FIGURE 12 B–D)........................................... C. caatinga View in CoL sp. n.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

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