Uloma caledonica Kaszab, 1982

Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J., Clamens, Anne-Laure, Jourdan, Herve, Jabbour-Zahab, Roula & Condamine, Fabien L., 2014, Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition of the Uloma isoceroides species group (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini), with the description of four new species, ZooKeys 415, pp. 133-167 : 139

Uloma caledonica Kaszab, 1982 Figs 2A, 3 A–B

Uloma caledonica Kaszab, Folia Entomologica Hungarica 18: 87.

Type locality.

Saint Louis, Forêt de Thi.

Type specimens.

Holotype male (BPBM). Paratypes: 11 males and 10 females (BPBM), two males and one female (USNM), three males (IRSNB), none examined; one male, original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1893, Coll. Ed. Fleutiaux" (MNHN); one male, original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie” (Hnhm), both examined.

Diagnosis.

Uloma caledonica is one of the four species of the group in which the mentum of the male is completely glabrous and flat. It differs from these three species ( Uloma jourdani , Uloma isoceroides and Uloma kergoati ) by the longer metaventrite (between meso- and metacoxae approximately as long as a mesocoxa), the humeri slightly developed, the elytral striae of punctures strongly marked and developed to apex, and the pronotal punctation barely visible. The shape of the aedeagus is also unique among the New Caledonian Uloma species, with the parameres bottleneck-shaped and triangularly notched at the apex.

Distribution.

Kaszab (1982: 87) cited this species from the following localities:

Saint-Louis ( Forêt de Thi), Rivière Bleue ( Yaté), La Couèle-Yaté Rd., Mt Koghi, Nouméa, Île des Pins. "Neukaledonien (Grande Terre SO, Île des Pins)".

Additional localities.

Mont Do (21°45.63'S, 166°00.15'E, ca 940 m) 6.III.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Parc Provincial de la Rivière Bleue, Refuge des Ornithologues (22°08.04'E, 166°39.19'S, ca 190 m) 4.XI.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat, F.L. Condamine & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP).