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Macrelmis thorpei Hinton 1945

Description

Macrelmis thorpei Hinton, 1945

(Fig. 8)

Diagnosis: Body robust, length 3.00 mm; sublateral carinae on the pronotum poorly developed; surface of pronotum and elytra clothed with erect microscopic setae; entire surface of metasternal disk tomentose; hind tibiae with two apical tomentose fringes on the; paremeres much shorter than median lobe (Hinton 1945).

Distribution: Brazil (Amazonas). New record: Roraima State.

Material examined. Brazil, Roraima State, Alto Alegre municipality, Flona de Roraima, Igarapé Preto (P4) (02°56’18.05”N / 61°37’27.28”W), Pennsylvania trap, R. Boldrini, 18.XII.2017, two males (UFRR).

Notes

Published as part of Almeida, Maria Do Livramento Sampaio De, Fernandes, André Silva & Rini, Rafael Bold-, 2020, A new species of Macrelmis Motschulsky, 1859 (Coleoptera: Elmidae) and new records of Elmidae from Roraima State, northern Brazil, pp. 277-284 in Zootaxa 4718 (2) on page 281, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3602418

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
R , UFRR
Event date
2017-12-18
Family
Elmidae
Genus
Macrelmis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hinton
Species
thorpei
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2017-12-18
Taxonomic concept label
Macrelmis thorpei Hinton, 1945 sec. Almeida, Fernandes & Rini, 2020

References

  • Hinton, H. E. (1945) Description of the two species of Elsianus Sharp, with a key to the graniger species-group (Col., Elminae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 81 (64), 90 - 92.