Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983

Trýzna, Miloš, Carrasco, Juan Carlos & Blažej, Lukáš, 2022, Review of the Neotropical genera Barra Jordan and Brevibarra Jordan, with description of a new species of Barra from Nicaragua, notes on the tribe Piesocorynini Valentine, and new records of Brevibarra from Brazil and Ecuador (Coleoptera: Anthribidae), Zootaxa 5213 (3), pp. 243-268 : 254-255

Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983

( Figs 48 , 51–55 , 75 )

Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983: 54 . Rheinheimer 2004: 70 (catalogue), 226 (dorsal habitus, fig. 154).

Type locality. E Brazil, Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia (now Seara).

Type material. Paratype, male ( Figs 48 , 51–55 ): ‘ Brasilien / Nova Teutonia / 27°11´B, 52° 23´L / Fritz Plaumann [p] /11. [h, =November] 197[p]2[h] [data written transverse on the edge of the label] / 300–500 m [transverse print on the edge of the label]’ // ‘ Barra / salamandrina / sp.n. / Paratypus ♂ [h] / det. R. Frieser 19[p]83[h] [typical pink label used by Frieser]’ ( MTDC). [I have also studied the holotype in ZSMC, it has the same locality data, but 1973].

Identification. Dorsal transverse carina antebasal, slightly bisinuate, forming protruding lateral angle on sides, lateral carinae of pronotum very short, rather indicated. Basal longitudinal carinulae weakly developed. Eyes distinctly small, not emarginate, only truncated anteriorly, dorsal ocular index 3.17 in male. The antennae distinctly extend the posterior margin of the pronotum in both sexes, in the male extend beyond at last three apical antennomeres. Upper side of the body generally dark ochre to bricky, mixed with black. Each odd-numbered elytral interval dark ochre to bricky, narrower than even-numbered elytral intervals, the latter with alternating sections of bricky and black spots. Body size ca. 4.5–7.5 mm. Colour pattern as in Figs 51–55 .

Paratype, male ( Figs 51–55 , MTDC). Measurements (in mm): Total body length—7.00. Head: total length— 1.50, length of rostrum—1.03, maximum width of rostrum—1.35, length of eye—0.58, maximum width across eyes—1.63, minimum distance between eyes—1.00. Antenna: length of segments: II—0.26, III—0.71, IV—0.57, V—0.46, VI—0.50, VII—0.44, VIII—0.36, IX—0.29, X—0.20, XI—0.27, width of segment IX—0.13. Pronotum: maximum length—2.00, maximum width—2.90, minimum width—1.60. Elytra: maximum length—3.50, maximum width—3.10. Pygidium: maximum length—0.50, maximum width—0.76.

Distribution. Brazil ( Frieser 1983, Rheinheimer 2004). Species known only from the type locality ( Fig. 75 ).

Note: Dr. Fritz Plaumann (* May 2, 1902 in Preussisch Eylau , † September 22, 1994 in Seara), collector of this species, was a German-Brazilian entomologist. Plaumann emigrated to Brazil in 1924. There he worked as a farmer, teacher, photographer and businessman. As an autodidact, he observed and described the regional fauna and discovered ca. 1,500 species of insects. During 70 years of scientific work he created a collection of more than 80,000 specimens of insects of ca. 17,000 different species. Since 1988 it has formed the basis of the Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann in Seara (formerly Nova Teutônia) in Brazil .

Figures

FIGURE 75. Map of distribution of Barra and Brevibarra species. Triangle—type locality, circle—other distribution. Barra baruskae sp. nov. (red), Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983 (yellow), Barra gounellei Jordan, 1904 (blue), Brevibarra scotosagis Jordan, 1906 (magenta). Google.com/maps, modified.

FIGURES 44–50. 44–47, Barra baruskae sp. nov.; 44, map of the type locality, Google.com/maps, modified; 45–47, paratype male; 45, aedeagus in dorsal view; 46, tegmen in ventral view; 47, segment VIII, and sternite IX (= spiculum gastrale) in dorsal view (scale bars in mm); 48, Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983, labels of paratype male (MTDC); 49, Barra gounellei Jordan, 1904, labels of holotype male; 50, Brevibarra scotosagis Jordan, 1906, labels of holotype female.

FIGURES 51–55. Barra salamandrina Frieser, 1983, paratype male (MTDC); 51, dorsal habitus; 52, head in dorsal view; 53, left antenna in dorsal view; 54, pronotum in dorsal view; 55, lateral habitus. Scale bars in mm.