Published May 13, 2019 | Version v1
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Calvariopsis Ruta 2019

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Description

Calvariopsis sp., female, Ecuador, Sucumbios

(Figs 2C, 27H)

Material examined. Female (SEMC): “ ECUADOR: Sucumbios \ Sacha Lodge, 0.5°S, \ 76.5°W, 270m, 14–24-III \ 1994, Hibbs, ex: malaise”.

Notes on morphology. Body of moderate size (TL 2.7 mm), dark brown with red humeral portions of elytra and yellowish suture in apical portion, excitators absent. Gonocoxites wide, subtriangular, with subapical gonostyli (Fig. 27H). Bursal sclerite elongate, with denticle in central portion.

Remarks. Size and morphology of gonocoxites suggest this is a member of group I although it lacks a foveate elytral excitator. On a map (Fig. 28) marked as a female of unknown group.

Notes

Published as part of Ruta, Rafał, 2019, Calvariopsis gen. nov., a new genus of Neotropical Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea), pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 4604 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2783674

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Biodiversity

Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Calvariopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ruta
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Calvariopsis Ruta, 2019 sec. Ruta, 2019