Nothocyphon pacificus, Zwick, Peter, 2015

Zwick, Peter, 2015, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 7. Genus Nothocyphon, new genus, Zootaxa 3981 (3), pp. 301-359 : 335

Nothocyphon pacificus , n. sp.

( Figs. 84 , 91 )

Type material: 1♂ holotype: NSW New England NP Thungutti Camp 22/11/01 CHS.Watts ( SAMA); 1♂ paratype: NSW nr Nungatta Creek 58 88083N 557 20893E 13.2.0 0 \ J&R Miller ( SAMA). Habitus. BL 2.4−2.6 mm, BL/BW ~1.7. Very similar to N. isolaeregis and N. amphora . Male. Penis relatively slender, pala waisted, narrow bottleneck, apex strongly widened and shallowly excised. The parameres are longer than the parameroids and slender, inner face with a strong curved tooth (which differs in details of shape between the specimens), outer face long and slender, externally serrate ( Fig. 84 ). Female. Unknown.

Etymology. The adjectival Latin (peaceful) name refers to the relative proximity of the known localities to the Pacific Ocean, but the sites are not coastal.

Figures

FIGURE 91. Nothocyphon amphora- group, distribution in SE Australia and variation of the male parameres. C, Canberra; M, Melbourne; S, Sydney. Parameres not to scale. For N. amphora, the two parameres to the left are of a specimen from the Otways, the one to the right of the specimen from ACT.

FIGURES 82 – 86. Nothocyphon amphora - group, males, penis, parameres and S 9, superimposed: 82, N. isolaeregis. — 83, N. amphora. — 84, N. pacificus, the holotype; to the right, paramere of the paratype. — 85, N. alces. — 86, N. isolaeregis, T 8 and S 8. 82 − 85 to the same scale. Abbreviations: pb, paramere bases; T 9, apodeme of T 9.