Epimetopus latisoides, Perkins, 2012

Perkins, Philip D., 2012, 3531, Zootaxa 3531, pp. 1-95 : 25-26

Epimetopus latisoides , new species

Figs. 41 (habitus), 45 (aedeagus), 129 (map)

Type Material. Holotype (male): Panama: Canal Zone , 12.0 mi NW Gamboa, Rio Agua Salud, 9° 9.1' N, 79° 44.2' W, 19 ii 1976, A. Newton ( MCZ).

Differential Diagnosis. The habitus of this species ( Fig. 41) is very similar to that of several other members of the Costatus group; reliable determinations will be based on examination of the aedeagus. The aedeagus is similar to E. latus in that the parameres are very broad, have the medial margins straight or nearly so, and have two very small setae at the apex of each ( Figs. 31, 45). However, the aedeagus of E. latisoides is much smaller, the median lobe is narrower and the apex is shaped slightly differently.

Description. Size: holotype (length/width, mm): body (length from anterior margin of pronotum to elytral apices) 1.67/0.88; head (width) 0.45; pronotum 0.58/0.61; elytra 1.14/0.88. Habitus and sculpture as illustrated ( Fig. 41). Head black, dorsum red, venter and coxae dark brown, maxillary palpi testaceous. Eye with ca. 3–4 facets between canthus and posterior margin. Protibiae slightly arcuate. Elongate granules linking elytral punctures. Metaventral depression moderately deep, ca. eight granules along base.

Etymology. Named in reference to the aedeagal similarity to E. latus .

Distribution. Currently known only from the type locality in Panama ( Fig. 129).