taxonID	type	description	language	source
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 7 DFC 5962 - B 47 E- 4848 - 9608 - C 387 CE 58049 B (Figs. 1 - 4)	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	materials_examined	Type series. Holotype male, labeled: “ VENEZUELA, Lara, P. N. Yacambú, El Blanquito, 1400 m 26. VI. 2005; Hermes Escalona, collector ” / “ coll. on bird of paradise (Strelitzia) dry leaves ” / “ HOLOTYPE Ischyomius ♁ escalonai, sp. n. D. A. Pollock 2007 ”. Allotype female, same labels as holotype (with “ ALLOTYPE ” instead of “ HOLOTYPE ” on third label). Two paratypes, one male, one female, with same labels as Holotype (with “ PARATYPE ” instead of “ HOLOTYPE ” on third label). Holotype, allotype and female paratype deposited in Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola “ Francisco Fernández Yepez ”, UCV, Maracay, Venezuela (Luis J. Joly, curator). Male paratype deposited in collection of author. Derivation of specific epithet. I am very pleased to name this new species after friend and colleague Hermes Escalona, a fellow specialist on the “ salpingid group ” of tenebrionoid families, and who also collected all known specimens of this species.	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This new species of Ischyomius may be separated from the rest of the genus by the following combination of characters: posterior pronotal bead indistinct; lateral pronotal bead not attaining anterior bead; color uniformly light to medium brown; abdominal ventrites with short but obvious setation; elytral apices rounded, without spine (Fig. 3) aedeagus relatively short and stout, accessory lobes very short, inserted midlength on the tegmen (Fig. 4); known only from Venezuela.	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	description	Description. With generic characteristics of Ischyomius (see Pollock 1998: 246 - 250), plus the following: total length (TL) 9.9 - 11.5 mm; greatest elytral width (GEW) 2.8 - 3.2 mm; body (Fig. 1) elongate (TL / GEW = 3.5 - 3.8) color uniformly light to medium brown dorsally, without obvious color contrasts, ventrally, thorax and abdominal ventrites slightly darker than legs and elytral epipleuron; eyes moderately protuberant; antennae relatively long, antennomeres filiform, slightly widened from antennomere 5; male lacking pit on mentum; entire dorsal surface of body with shallow, sparse punctation, without any obvious microsculpture; pronotum wider than long (GPW / PL = 1.19 - 1.21); posterior pronotal bead indistinct; lateral pronotal carinae distinct, smooth, without tubercles, prolonged anteriorly to, and in contact with, anterior pronotal bead; lateral pronotal margins parallelsided basally, then relatively abruptly widened, greatest width anterior of midlength (Fig. 2); anterolateral angles of pronotum rounded, not angulate; disc of pronotum moderately convex with indistinct posterolateral depressions; elytra convex, slightly flattened dorsally, without distinct setation; outer apical elytral spine absent (Fig. 3); thoracic sterna and abdominal ventrites with distinct, almost isodiametric microsculpture; abdominal ventrites relatively coarsely punctate, with short but evident setation; aedeagus (Fig. 4) stout, apicale slightly shorter than basale; apicale broad, tapered distally; accessory lobes narrow, very short, not extended to end of apicale, inserted about midlength of apicale.	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The four type specimens were collected from a single locality, in Yacambú National Park, Lara State, in easternmost Venezuela. Natural history. All four specimens were collected by beating withered leaves of “ Bird of Paradise ” plants (Strelitzia sp.) (Hermes Escalona, pers. comm.). Very little is known about any other species of Ischyomius, although they seem to be associated with dead or dying vegetation of Musaceae or Palmae (Champion 1916; Pollock 1998). Although the genus Strelitzia is native to South Africa, and therefore was introduced to the Venezuelan type locality, the family Strelitziaceae is closely related to Musaceae (which are also introduced), in the “ banana and ginger ” group of plants (Kress and Hahn 1997). It seems probable that I. escalonai will be found in association with Musaceae, also.	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
03A74B2EF2160F526DE18E08FB85FB9C.taxon	discussion	Discussion. The description of I. escalonai brings the total known species in Ischyomius to eight. The first couplet of Pollock’s (1998) key divided the species into two groups: those that have a distinct, posterior pronotal bead and distinct vestiture on abdominal ventrites and those without posterior bead and lacking ventral abdominal vestiture. Each of the four type specimens of I. escalonai are intermediate between these two groups, i. e. without the pronotal bead, but with short, but distinct ventral abdominal vestiture. Therefore, the original key of Pollock (1998), revised by Pollock (2007) for inclusion of I. hovorei, must be amended, as follows. References to figures for species other than I. escalonai refer to figures in Pollock (1998).	en	Pollock, Darren (2009): A new species of Ischyomius from Venezuela (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea, Pythidae) with a revised key to world species. ZooKeys 6 (6): 69-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.6.81
