Selenophorus flavilabris flavilabris Dejean

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 : 65-67

Selenophorus flavilabris flavilabris Dejean Figs 39C, 46

Selenophorus flavilabris Dejean, 1829: 79. Syntypes 3, in Chaudoir-Oberthür Collection; in front of following box label: // flavilabris / Dej./ I. St. Barthelemy/C. Dejean// LECTOTYPE: specimen 1, male, labelled //[male]// // flavilabris / m. in Ins. Barthelemy // // Schönherr //.- Gemminger and Harold 1868: 266.- Putzeys 1878a: 44.- Csiki 1932: 1198.- Blackwelder 1944: 49.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.- Ball 1992: 84, 85.- Ball and Shpeley 1992: 96.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Peck 2005: 32.- Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 14.

Selenophorus ramosi Darlington, 1939: 97. HOLOTYPE male, and 10 PARATYPES: Laguna Guánica, May 31, 1938 (MCZC).- Ball and Shpeley 1992: 96.

Type locality.

Saint Barthélemy, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles.

Diagnosis.

This subspecies is readily separated from other subspecies and species of the opalinus species group by the visible microlines on the dorsal surface.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 39C. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae and mouthparts testaceous to rufo-testaceous. Legs bicolored, tibiae and tarsi testaceous to rufo-testaceous, femora rufo-brunneous to rufo-piceous. Dorsal and ventral surfaces rufo-brunneous to dark brunneous, not quite rufo-piceous, faintly iridescent. Head with mesh pattern isodiametric; pronotum with mesh pattern slightly transverse, sculpticells about 1.5 –2× wide as long; elytra with mesh pattern transverse, sculpticells about 2 –4× wide as long. Pronotum with posteriolateral angles rounded; posteriolateral impressions impunctate. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Intervals without fine micro-punctures. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Very similar to S. flavilabris ubancus , Fig. 42 D–F. For details, see this topic for S. flavilabris ubancus , below.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Very similar to S. flavilabris ubancus , Fig. 44A. For details, see this topic for S. flavilabris ubancus , below.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 46. This subspecies is known only from Puerto Rico and the two Lesser Antillean islands of Anguilla and St. Martin.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The three subspecies of S. flavilabris are allopatric in distribution. Within the opalinus species group, the range of this subspecies is overlapped by the ranges of S. fabricii , S. integer and S. propinquus . Relationships of S. flavilabris flavilabris are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 74 specimens (25 males, 49 females). See Appendix for details.