Prionocyphon monteithi Watts, 2010b

Zwick, Peter, 2016, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 9. The relations of Australasian Ypsiloncyphon species to their Asian congeners, additions, mainly to Petrocyphon and Prionocyphon, and a key to Australian genera of Scirtinae, Zootaxa 4085 (2), pp. 151-198 : 183

Prionocyphon monteithi Watts, 2010b

( Fig. 77 , Table 2)

Material studied. 1♂: Bellenden Ker Range NQ, Summit TV station, 1560m, 17 Oct-. 5 Nov.1981 Earthwatch/ Qld.Museum, Malaise trap \ A.N.I.C. COLEOPTERA Voucher No. 83-0583 (ANIC).

The present specimen was collected in the same area as the type series and has a strongly sclerotized pala. The same is not shown in the illustrated specimen ( Watts 2010b: fig. 59) and not mentioned in the original description, and seems to have been broken. The pala is relatively wide and the axis pala-parameroids is straight. Individual sclerites can easily be traced in slide mounts. The endophallus was not observed.

Figures

FIGURES 77, 78. Male genitalia of Prionocyphon monteithi Watts (77) and P. warra Watts (78). Not to scale. Abbreviations: eph, endophallus; pa, pala; pd, parameroid; pe, paramere; st, style; te, tegmen; tr, trigonium.