Published December 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Nothocyphon amphora

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Description

The amphora -group

T9 strongly reduced, in preparations often barely perceptible. The anteriorly truncate penis resembles an amphora, with handles formed by the abruptly outcurving parameroids (e.g., Figs. 83, 85: pb). The trigonium is basally wide, then restricted to a long bottleneck, the tip mostly again wider. The flat band-like parameroids are shorter than the apparently rigid trigonium which is not visibly articulated with the pala. There is a bracket-like transverse sclerite of uncertain homology, possibly the tegmen. The parameres are independent from it, separate, each with a basal rod and a caudal plate of variable form, armed with spines. Females (known only of N. armstrongi): S7 with two areas with micropores and fine canals (Fig. 89). The apodemes of S8 are anteriorly connected by a ring (not shown). Prehensor with two large strongly spinose sclerites (Fig. 90).

The few species live in the southeast of Australia and were rarely collected.

Notes

Published as part of Zwick, Peter, 2015, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 7. Genus Nothocyphon, new genus, pp. 301-359 in Zootaxa 3981 (3) on page 332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240978

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Nothocyphon
Species
amphora
Taxon rank
species