Petrocyphon Watts 2011
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Genus Petrocyphon Watts, 2011
The genus includes small, slender beetles (Figs 21, 24), with the pronotum narrower than the elytra, head about as long as wide in dorsal view, and thick in side view when the extended convex subgenal area beneath the projecting eyes is visible. The antennal base is not modified. The head and pronotum have granular punctures, and the elytra have normal punctures. The elytra usually have faint longitudinal ridges beginning behind an oblique depression giving the area laterally from and behind the scutellum a raised appearance. A distinct buttonhole in the ventral edge of the head capsule, a wide prosternal process and a rhomboid receiving mesoventral groove are shared by Petrocyphon species.
The females bear on their bursella a pair of cuticular discs or rings, sometimes very large and of elaborate structure (e.g., Figs. 22, 23, 25, 26). Some females also have a vulvar sclerite (Fig. 27).
The type species, P. antarcticus Watts, and several others exhibit sexual dimorphism of the antennae, which are disproportionately long and thick in males. The pronotum is short and strongly transverse, almost cordiform, with blunt rear angles a little closer together than the blunt but slightly projecting front angles. I added new species and assigned all to informal species groups in a prior contribution (Zwick 2012). Here, some species are added and previously unknown females described.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scirtidae
- Genus
- Petrocyphon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Watts
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Petrocyphon Watts, 2011 sec. Zwick, 2016
References
- Watts, C. H. S. (2011) Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the genera Chameloscyphon gen. nov., Daploeuros gen. nov., Dasyscyphon gen. nov., Eurycyphon gen. nov., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon gen. nov. and Spaniosdascillus gen. nov. (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 135, 66 - 10.
- Zwick, P. (2012) Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 1. Additions to genus Petrocyphon. Entomologische Blatter und Coleoptera, 108, 159 - 180.