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Calloeneis brooke Gordon and Hanley 2020, new species

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Description

20. Calloeneis brooke Gordon and Hanley, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 1.6 mm, width 1.3 mm; dorsal surface shiny except head alutaceous. Color black; head, pronotum yellow (Fig. 86); venter yellow except prosternum yellow, mesosternum reddish brown, metasternum dark brown, epipleuron yellowish brown. Head with punctures not visible; pronotal punctures small separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures small, faint, nearly invisible, separated by about four times a diameter; prosternal punctures small, dense, separated by less than a diameter; mesosternal punctures apparently absent; metasternal punctures small, widely spaced, absent in lateral 1/3; basal abdominal ventrite with small punctures separated by about a diameter, ventrites 2–4 with fine punctures not clearly visible; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons slightly wider than eye, clypeus widened, apex truncate (Fig. 87); eye canthus short, less than half width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side curved, extended from apex of intercoxal process to lateral margin of prosternum. Epipleuron not descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite curved, extended to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia with penis guide slightly longer than paramere, wide, curved from base to widely rounded apex; paramere slender, slightly curved, apically rounded (Fig. 88, 89); penis robust, apical 1/5 abruptly narrowed, apex acute; basal capsule slender, inner arm slightly curved with rounded apex, outer arm short, apex obliquely truncate (Fig. 90).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male: Venezuela, nr. Petare, 20.VI.1926, H. E. Box collector (USNM). Barbosa, G.V., Plot B Malaise 5, October 1995, BMNH(E) 2003-84 (BMNH).

Remarks. This species has all black elytra but is distinguished from other such species by an entirely yellow pronotum. The male genitalia are also distinctive.

Notes

Published as part of Gordon, Robert D., F, Guillermo González & Hanley, Guy A., 2020, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), part XX: systematic revision of South American Calloeneis Grote (Cryptognathini), pp. 1-25 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (766) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353544

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Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM, BMNH
Event date
1926-06-20
Verbatim event date
1926-06-20
Scientific name authorship
Gordon and Hanley
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Calloeneis
Species
brooke
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Calloeneis brooke Gordon & Hanley, 2020