Coilodes bezerrai Basílio, 2023

Basílio, Daniel Silva, Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Zagury, Cherman, Mariana Alejandra & Almeida, Lúcia Massutti de, 2023, A look beyond the colour: taxonomic revision of Coilodes Westwood, 1846 (Coleoptera, Hybosoridae), with the description of six new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 914 (1), pp. 1-53 : 8-10

Coilodes bezerrai Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Similar to Coilodes castaneus , it is distinguished by having a more convex body, labium with subquadrate mentum and the presence of a dorsal lobe on the tegmen.

Etymology

Noun in the genitive singular. Coilodes bezerrai Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov. is named in honour of Dr. Eduardo Barbosa Bezerra, entomologist, and professor at Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil. He was the first advisor of the first author of this species. This honour is a way to immortalize a researcher and professor who unfortunately had his career interrupted, but who managed to perpetuate his teachings.

Type material

Holotype

COLOMBIA • ♂; Santander, Serrania de las quinchas, Reserva El paujil ; Nov. 2006; Santos-Zarate leg.; “Trampa de calda, Cebo heces de A. hybridus ”; CEMT.

Paratypes (1 ♂ and 1 ♀)

COLOMBIA • 1 ♂; same collection data as for holotype; DZUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; “Cebo heces de A. seniculus ”; CEMT .

Description

Male (holotype)

MEASUREMENTS. Length 5.8 mm. Width 4.2 mm. Body ( Fig. 1A–B ) convex, oval and shiny.

COLOUR. Body yellowish brown.

HEAD ( Fig. 1C–D ). Surface slightly strigulate. Frons, in dorsal view, subrectangular; two tubercles in the middle; proximal border rounded; posterior margin narrower than the anterior; lateral margin darker and straight; sparse and thin punctures. Eye barely visible dorsally. Canthus strong; distinct area expanded downwards. Clypeus subtrapezoidal; lateral margins weakly rounded; anterior borders rounded; apex usually straight; setae thin and sparse, throughout the anterior margin dorsally; sparse and thick punctures. Labrum semicircular; slight medial projection; setae sparse, spreading along the entire dorsal border. Mandibles dorsally excavated, protruding beyond the apex of labrum. Labium with mentum subquadrate; inferior and lateral margins straight and anterior margin curved in the middle; disc strigulate, long setae on the margins. Maxilla subtriangular, twice as long as wide; long setae throughout surface. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; antennal club with three antennomeres; club with basal antennomere cupuliform.

PRONOTUM ( Fig. 1E ). Convex; strongly excavated medially; subtrapezoidal, posterior margin wider than anterior margin; anterior margin straight, angles subacute; posterior margin rounded and weakly produced medially; lateral margin convex, setae and punctures absent.

SCUTELLAR SHIELD. Subtriangular; thin setae; punctures absent; apex punctate.

ELYTRA. Double row of thick longitudinal punctures, sutural stria complete, formed by thick punctures.

VENTER ( Fig. 1B ). Hypomeral surface strigulate, setose; prosternum ( Fig. 1B, D ) elevated at midlength, transversally grooved; anterior margin rounded and jagged, mesoventrite and metaventrite slightly strigulate.

LEGS. Procoxa conical; surface strigulate. Protrochanter joint with the procoxa rounded, distally angulate. Profemur with posterior margin carinate. Protibia with inner margin convex; carinate; single spur, slightly curved at the apex; external margin with three larger teeth and series of smaller denticles along the entire margin. Protarsi with tarsal insertion beneath the protibial second tooth. Mesothoracic and metathoracic legs smooth. Mesotrochanter and metatrochanter subtriangular, with bifurcated apex. Mesofemur and metafemur carinate on posterior margin. Mesotibia and metatibia with erect setae; apex weakly expanded; pair of spurs with sharp apex. Tarsi with five tarsomeres; tarsal claws toothed medially.

ABDOMEN. Six ventrites with recumbent setae.

GENITALIA ( Fig. 1F–K ). Lobe of tegmen shorter than half the distance between the lobe base and paramere base; parameres asymmetrical; right paramere with rounded edges, measuring ⅔ the size of the left paramere; left paramere with sickle-shaped apex, curved to middle.

Female

Length 6.3 mm. Width 3.8 mm.

Variation

Length ranging from 5.8 to 6.4 mm. Width ranging from 3.8 to 4.2 mm.

Geographical distribution

Colombia (Santander) ( Fig. 14A ).

Biological data

Collected in faeces of Ateles hybridus I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1829 and Alouatta seniculus (Linnaeus, 1766) ( Mammalia: Primates ) (label data).

Figures

Fig. 1. Coilodes bezerrai Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., paratype ♂ at DZUP (A, B, D), holotype ♂ (C, E–G, J–K), and graphical representation (H–I). A. Body, dorsal view. B. Body, ventral view. C. Head, dorsal view. D. Head, ventral view. E. Pronotum, dorsal view. F–K. Male genitalia. F. Dorsal view. G. Ventral view. H. Right paramere. I. Left paramere. J. Right side. K. Left side. Scale bars: A–B = 1 mm; C–E = 0.5 mm; F–K = 0.2 mm.

Fig. 14. Distribution map of species of Coilodes Westwood, 1846. A. Coilodes bezerrai Basílio & Vazde-Mello sp. nov.; Coilodes castaneus Westwood, 1846; and Coilodes edeiltae Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov. B. Coilodes fumipennis Arrow, 1909; Coilodes humeralis (Mannerheim, 1829); and Coilodes lunae Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov. C. Coilodes mayae Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov.;Coilodes niger (Mannerheim, 1829) stat. rev.; Coilodes ovalis Robinson, 1948; and Coilodes parvulus Westwood 1846. D. Coilodes punctipennis Arrow, 1909; Coilodes ravii Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov.; and Coilodes skelleyi Basílio & Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov.