Deltochilum jocelynae González-Alvarado & Vaz-De 2021, sp. nov.
- 1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil & Colecciones Biológicas, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
- 2. Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Description
Deltochilum jocelynae sp. nov.
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Figs 1B, 2B, 3B, F, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, F, 8B, 9C–D, 10
DiagnosisClose to D. nonstriatum sp. nov. by having striae I–VII inconspicuous (Figs 1B–C, 4B–C) including apically (Fig. 5B–C). However, it can be distinguished by presenting the smallest and most disperse interstrial punctures (Fig. 4B) as well as most disperse punctures on head frons (Fig. 2B) and on pronotal disc (Fig. 3B, F) and finally, by the well-defined shiny points on the pronotal disc (Fig. 3B, F).
EtymologyA patronym, noun in the genitive case, for Jocelyn Gill. See also the “Acknowledgments” section.
Type materialHolotype GUYANA • 1 ♂; District 8, Mount Wokomung; 5°05′33.4″ N, 59°50′34.4″ W; alt. 1411 m; 4–8 Nov. 2004; B. Hubley leg.; pitfall trap (human dung), primary forest; ROM 2004526; BDGC; [aedeagus and endophallus extracted]; CNC 379889.
Paratypes GUYANA • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; BDGC • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; 5º07′53.2″ N, 59º48′31.4″ W; alt. 698 m; 21–26 Oct. 2004; ROM 2004509; BDGC.
DescriptionMEASUREMENTS AND COLOR. Holotype male, length 8.1 mm, humeral width 5.1 mm. Dark green with some red reflections dorsally (Fig. 1B). Black ventrally, with shiny red reflections on anterior area of metaventral process, meso- and metafemora and ventrite VI (Fig. 6B).
HEAD (Fig. 2B). Dorsal inter-ocular distance approximately seven times width of one eye. Punctures on frons separated by less than one diameter of each puncture. Punctures on head disc separated by less than one diameter of each puncture.
PRONOTUM (Fig. 3B, F). Medial angle slightly projected. Punctures on the disc separated by less than one diameter. Shiny points on disc well-defined and contiguous to punctures.
ELYTRA (Figs 1B, 4B). Carina of the ninth interstria reaching middle of elytral length. Striae I–VIII inconspicuous including apically (Fig. 5B), only in some parts striae slightly visible and very narrow. Punctures of second interstria on disc separated by one or less than one diameter, on third a slightly disperse. Punctures of third interstria on disc occupying about 1/14 th of the distance between striae II and III. Apical tubercles on interstriae III, V–VII (Fig. 5B).
ABDOMEN (Fig. 6B). Width of expansion of the ventrite I, on ventrite III, subequal to distance between clypeal teeth; expansion reaching distal margin of ventrite IV. Margins of expansion between ventrites II–IV forming an acute angle. Apex of expansion truncate. Basal area of expansion with punctures separated by less than one diameter.
LEGS. Apex of mesotibia on ventral-internal margin with a small spatulate expansion. Expansion of metafemur 1.8 × wider than the width of metafemur basal to expansion. Internal margin of metatibia with large tubercles, occupying almost all metatibial length.
PYGIDIUM (Fig. 5B). Most of the punctures separated by less than one diameter; punctures basally denser than punctures on disc. Discal punctures occupying approximately 1/30 th the width on middle of pygidium.
G ENITALIA (Figs 7B, 8B). Aedeagus as described in the gilli species group. Medial endophallite slightly sinuate. Sub-medial area of endophallus with scales.
RemarksOnly three specimens are known for this species, all teneral. The holotype does not appear to be teneral externally, however, the aedeagus is poorly sclerotised (Fig. 7B). The paratypes differ from the holotype by the sexual dimorphism and by having the elytra and the pygidium less sclerotised, with those structures light brown (Fig. 9C–D). It appears that this species is sympatric with D. gilli since both species were collected a few kilometres apart (see Fig. 10, red square). Deltochilum gilli was collected almost 200 meters higher (altitude) than D. jocelynae sp. nov.. However, both species are easily separated via the elytra; D. gilli has conspicuous striae (Fig. 4A), whereas these are inconspicuous in D. jocelynae sp. nov. (Fig. 4B).
Known distributionGUYANA. District 8, Mount Wokomung (Fig. 10, yellow square).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BDGC
- Event date
- 2004-10-21 , 2004-11-04
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Deltochilum
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- CNC 379889
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- González-Alvarado & Vaz-De
- Species
- jocelynae
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-10-21/26 , 2004-11-04/08
- Taxonomic concept label
- Deltochilum jocelynae González-Alvarado & Vaz-De-Mello, 2021
References
- Gonzalez-Alvarado A. & Vaz-de-Mello F. Z. 2021. Towards a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the Neotropical dung beetle subgenus Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) Lane, 1946 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): Division into species groups. PLOS ONE 16: e 0244657. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0244657