Aphanerostethus darlingi Lewis, 2024

Lewis, Jake H., Kojima, Hiroaki, Suenaga, Miyuki, Petsopoulos, Dimitrios, Fujisawa, Yusuke, Truong, Xuan Lam & Warren, Dan L., 2024, The era of cybertaxonomy: X-ray microtomography reveals cryptic diversity and concealed cuticular sculpture in Aphanerostethus Voss, 1957 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), ZooKeys 1217, pp. 1-45 : 1-45

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1217.126626
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2B699BE7-7D73-4E62-BB4C-7B6090DC7568
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14010183
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF2C84EB-9B60-451A-8327-F6A76FE4DD8B
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:AF2C84EB-9B60-451A-8327-F6A76FE4DD8B
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Aphanerostethus darlingi Lewis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Aphanerostethus darlingi Lewis sp. nov.

Figs 9 E, F View Figure 9 , 16 A, B View Figure 16

Specimens examined.

Holotype: Malaysia: Borneo: Sarawak: • Gunung Mulu National Park , 1387 m, Camp 3, 4°2.284'N, 114°53.36'E, 27. XI. 2009 – 12. I. 2010, malaise trap, D. C. Darling, B. Hubley, deposited in SFDK, ROM_OSU 308049 , JHLHY_DAR_126 GoogleMaps . Paratype: Malaysia: Borneo: Sarawak: • Gunung Mulu National Park , 1387 m, Camp 3, 4°2.284'N, 114°53.36'E, 24. VII – 21. IX. 2011, malaise trap, D. C. Darling, (1, CMNC), ROM_OSU 308460 , JHLHY_DAR_125 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Body length 2.0 mm. Cuticle coated in crusty dark, sandy gray, and white scales in weakly defined pattern. Funicle with six articles. Procoxae contiguous. Only odd-numbered elytral intervals with erect scales. Erect elytral scales evenly distributed, not concentrated in bundle. Scutellum not distinct. Femora each with prominent tooth. Prosternal cavity prominent and with steep lateral ridges. Metaventrite with small tubercle between meta- and mesocoxae, not a distinct transverse ridge.

Distribution.

This species is currently only known from Gunung Mulu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia.

Etymology.

The specific name darlingi honors the collector of the type series, Christopher Darling (Royal Ontario Museum), for his contributions to entomology in southeast Asia. It is a genitive, invariable.