Chespirito hintoni, Ferreira & Keller & Ivie, 2022

Ferreira, Vinicius S., Keller, Oliver & Ivie, Michael A., 2022, Descriptions of New Species of Chespirito Ferreira, Keller & Branham (Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Chespiritoinae) and the First Record for the Subfamily in the United States, Zootaxa 5124 (2), pp. 230-237 : 231

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.2.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6405114
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scientific name	Chespirito hintoni
status	sp. nov.

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Chespirito hintoni new species

( Figs. 1A, 1D, 1G View FIGURE 1 , 2A View FIGURE 2 , 3A View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 )

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Type material (1). Holotype: Real de Arriba ; Temescaltepec; Mex. VII-33/ H. E. Hinton; R. L. Usinger; Collectors. / Hinton Coll.; B.M. 1939-583 ( BMNH).

Etymology. The species is named for Howard Everest Hinton (1912–1977) one of the coleopterists of the twentieth century, who was born and raised in Mexico, and collected the unique holotype. In a coincidence, he started his university education at the same institution as one of us (MAI), Modesto Junior College in Modesto, California.

Diagnosis. Chespirito hintoni can be separated from other Chespirito by the combination of a unicolorous brownish pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ) (vs. the yellow pronotal disc in C. ballantynae ), the pronotum not constricted medially ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ) (vs. constricted in C. zaragozai ), the last three abdominal segments distinctly yellow ( Fig. 1D, 1G View FIGURE 1 , 2A View FIGURE 2 ) (vs. dark brown in C. lloydi or not distinctly yellow in C. zaragozai ) and by having ventrite 8 notched medially ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ) (vs. entire in C. lloydi , C. milleri and C. costae ) and tergite 8 entire, round apically ( Fig. 1G View FIGURE 1 ) (vs. tergite VIII notched apically in C. milleri ).

Description. General color dark brown ( Figs. 1A View FIGURE 1 ); mandibles and last three abdominal segments yellow ( Figs. 1D View FIGURE 1 , 2A View FIGURE 2 ); tarsi and metaventrite slightly lighter than remaining ventrites of the body. Head as long as wide, nearly covered by pronotum, only anterior 1/4 visible ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). Antenna short and stubby, when extending posteriorly barely surpassing humeral region ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). Pronotum not constricted medially; anterior angles round; posterior margin bisinuate ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ); with median longitudinal carina strongly visible throughout ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). Elytra ca. 4× length of pronotum; moderately dehiscent; basally subparallel ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ); with two weakly developed elytral costae ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). Scutellar shield round posteriorly ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ). Tergite VIII entire, apically round ( Fig. 1G View FIGURE 1 ). Posterior margin of abdominal ventrite 7 with a deep V-shaped notch ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ); ventrite 8 elongate, fusiform, longer than wide, medially notched apically ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Male genitalia with median lobe stout, slightly fusiform, apically rounded, in ventral view bearing paired strut-like structure ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ); parameres apically rounded ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ), 1/5 shorter than median lobe; phallobase missing.