Maechidius lapsus Telnov 2020, sp. nov.
Creators
- 1. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW 7 5 BD, London, United Kingdom & Coleopterological Research Center, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Daugavpils University, Vienības iela 13, LV – 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia. Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, Miera iela 3, LV – 2169, Salaspils, Latvia
Description
Maechidius lapsus sp. nov.
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Figs 50, 133–134, 223, 314, 387, 481–482, 632–639
EtymologyName derives from Latin ‘ lapsus ’ (meaning ‘lapse’, ‘slip’) since specimens of this species were incorrectly identified and published under the name of Paramaechidius pauxillus by several coleopterists (e.g., Frey 1969; Prokofiev 2018). Noun in apposition.
Type materialHolotype
INDONESIA • ♂; “N. DUTCH NEW GUINEA: Waigeu. Camp Nok. 2,500ft. iv.1938. L.E.Cheesman. B.M.1938-593. // Paramaechidius pauxillus Heller [h] det. G.Frey, 1967/68 [p]”; BMNH.
Paratypes (26 specimens)
INDONESIA • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; same label as in holotype but “ pauxillus Heller ” [h] “det. G.Frey, 1967/68 [p] [not mentioning genus name]”; BMNH • 1 ♂; paratype of Maechidius clypeatus comb. nov.; “ NEW GUINEA: NETH. Waris, S. of Hollandia,4500- 500m VIII-1-7-1959 [p] // T. C. Maa Collector BISHOP [p] // PARATYPE [p, red label] // Paramaechidius clypeatus n sp [h] det. G.Frey,1967/68 [p]”; NHMB • 1 ♀; “ DUTCH NEW GUINEA: Cyclops Mts.Sabron. Camp I. 1,200 ft. 15.v.1936. L.E.Cheesman. B.M.1936-271.”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ DUTCH NEW GUINEA: Cyclops Mts., Sabron. 2,000 ft. vi.1936. L.E.Cheesman. B.M.1936-271.”; BMNH • 1 ♀; “ DUTCH NEW GUINEA: Cyclops Mts., Sabron. 2,000 ft. vii.1936. L.E.Cheesman. B.M.1936-271.”; BMNH • 1 ♂; “ INDONESIA or. Irian Jaya 170km S Nabire Epomani 1150m, 06.I.1996 leg. A. Weigel ”; NME • 1 ♀; “ INDONESIA, Irian Jaya Nabire area, road Nabire–Ilaga,km 54, 03°29’517”S 135°43’913”E, 750m NN IV.1998, leg. M.Balke // Sammlung NATURKUNDEMUSEUM ERFURT”; NME • 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀; “ IRIAN JAYA, Japen [sic ♂] Isl., Kontinuai, road to Ambaidru, 600-700 m, 23-25.XII.2000, leg. A. RIEDEL”; SMNH • 1 ♂; same label; DTC • 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; “ Collection Naturhistorisches Museum Basel // Papua New Guinea Madang Prov. L. Cizek lgt. // Salemben village 145°24’E 4°42’S 16.XII. 2000, 750 m”; NHMB.
DescriptionMEASUREMENTS. Male holotype, total body length 5.90 mm. Head 1.20 mm long, across eyes 1.30 mm wide. Pronotum 1.30 mm long, maximum width 1.90 mm. Elytral length 3.40 mm, maximum combined width 2.80 mm. Selected female paratype from Waigeo Is., total body length 7.00 mm. Head 1.20 mm long, across eyes 1.40 mm wide. Pronotum 1.50 mm long, maximum width 2.10 mm. Elytral length 4.30 mm, maximum combined width 3.60 mm. Male paratype from Cyclops Mts, total body length 6.30 mm, selected female paratype 7.00 mm long.
With general features of Maechidius bintang sp. nov., M. crypticus sp. nov., M. dendrolagus sp. nov., M. lapsus sp. nov., M. owenstanleyi sp. nov. and M. weigeli sp. nov. (see descriptions above and below). Dorsum in part covered with dense to moderately dense microscopical velvety pubescence. Frons strongly humped in lateral view. Male labroclypeus (Fig. 133) subtruncate on anterior margin, in female (Fig. 134) vaguely emarginate. Anterolateral angles of labroclypeus strongly protruding anteriad, acute, its lateral margins slightly sinuous both in dorsal and lateral view in both sexes. Antennae 9-segmented, club 3-lamellate. Head and pronotum covered with long, suberect elongate scale-like clavate setae. Pronotum constricted laterally postmedially towards base in dorsal view (Fig. 223). Punctures of pronotal disc oblong, rather small but deep, intervening spaces larger than punctures. Punctures becoming denser along lateral margins. Elytral disc with ovoid to linear incision-shaped deep punctures (Fig. 314). Intervening spaces microreticulate, subopaque, larger than punctures. Setae longer, sparser, stronger appressed on elytra than on forebody. Elytron with or without tracks of two longitudinal carinae on each elytron. Male and female pygidium flattened dorsally, with deep oblong variably shaped and sized punctures (Figs 481–482). Pygidium setae scale-like, elongate, clavate. Male protibia with two inconspicuous distal teeth, female (Fig. 387) with two stronger, acute teeth. Male aedeagus as in Figs 632–639, paramere each with lateral denticle (aedeagus of this species was erroneously attributed to Paramaechidius pauxillus by Prokofiev (2018: fig. 6)).
Sexual dimorphismFemale is generally larger, with straight and pointed protibial spur, distally distinctly bidentate protibia.
EcologyOccurs in lowland and lower montane rainforests up to 1060 m altitude.
DistributionHitherto known from the Cyclops Mountains and western part of the Central Cordillera of New Guinea, Madang Province of Papua New Guinea, Yapen Island (Cenderawasih Bay) and Waigeo Island (Raja Ampat Islands).
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , DTC , NHMB , NME , SMNH
- Event date
- 1936-05-15 , 1959-08-01 , 1996-01-06 , 2000-12-16 , 2000-12-23
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Maechidius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Telnov
- Species
- lapsus
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1936-05-15 , 1959-08-01/07 , 1996-01-06 , 2000-12-16 , 2000-12-23/25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maechidius lapsus Telnov, 2020
References
- Frey G. 1969. Revision der Maechidius - Arten Neu-Guineas (Col., Melolonth.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 20: 494 - 509.
- Prokofiev A. M. 2018. First finding of the genus Paramaechidius Frey, 1969 from the Indonesian province Maluku (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 18 (2): 159 - 163.
- Macleay W. S. 1819. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the Annulose Animals. Volume I, Part I. Containing General Observations on the Geography, Manners, and the Affinities of the Insects which compose the Genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental Remarks on the Genera Lucanus and Hister of the same Author. With Appendix and Plates. R. and A. Taylor, London.