Allsortsia maculata ( Lea 1922 ) Reid & Beatson, 2010

Reid, C. A. M. & Beatson, M., 2010, 2486, Zootaxa 2486, pp. 1-60 : 7-8

Allsortsia maculata ( Lea 1922) , comb. nov.

( Figs 1, 18, 41, 44, 60, 66, 67, 81, 96, 98, 128, 130)

Macrogonus maculatus Lea 1922: 283

Macrolema maculata: Reid 2000: 862

Material examined

Holotype: male/ maculatus Lea type Cairns/ Macrogonus maculatus Lea Queensland I.4773 type/ ( SAM). Paratype: female/ Kuranda N Queensland G. E. Bryant F. P. D[odd]. 1909/ type of female Macrogonus maculatus Lea Queensland male has large tooth on each side of prothorax cotype/ cotype/ Australia Brit. Mus. 1921-458/ ( BMNH).

The female lacks antennomeres 7–11.

Description

Length: male 12mm, female 13mm; body moderately convex in profile, length c. 3x height. Variegated in metallic blue, red, yellow and brown: (i) anterior of head, head appendages, legs, basal half of middle of pronotum, scutellum, basal third of elytral suture and 6 spots on each elytron (beside scutellum, near suture 1/ 3 from base, on humerus, behind humerus, near side 1/2 from base, near side ¾ from base), black to blackishbrown, with dark blue reflection; (ii) remainder of elytra yellow; (iii) remainder of prothorax, mesoventrite, middle of metaventrite and base of trochanters red to reddish-yellow; (iv) abdomen brown.

Head ( Figs 1–2, 18): relatively small; strongly and closely punctured throughout anterior half, almost impunctate posteriorly; fronotclypeal margins deeply defined but not depressed between eyes, with deep groove on midline of vertex and irregular groove with trichobothria behind eyes; eyes small, not prominent, flatter in female, separated by c. 4x eye widths (both sexes); gena long, 0.55–0.60x eye length; antennae c. 4.5x socket diameters apart; antennae short, c. 0.5x body length (male), broken in female; all antennomeres elongate: 2 shortest (c. 0.6x first), <1=3, <4=6, <5=8, <7=9=10, <11 (male), female antennomeres 1–6 similar; labrum with 4–5 pairs of prominent lateral setae; apical maxillary palpomere elongate, almost cylindrical in male, more fusiform in female; preapical palpomere shorter than apical.

Thorax ( Figs 1–2, 18, 41, 44): pronotum sparsely and finely punctured throughout, with larger punctures on basal dark mark, shining, with scattered distinct micropunctures between macropunctures; pronotal shape sexually dimorphic: both sexes pronotal width 1.25x length, but male with strongly developed triangular lateral lobes at middle and deeply concave anterior margin, female evenly convex at sides and shallowly concave anterior margin; pronotal basal margin narrowly excavate at midline; posterior trichobothria anterior to basal margin; pronotal disc convex and without depressions in male, with two small lateral depressions in female; anterior margination absent from middle half; hypomeron impunctate; prosternal process broad and depressed, with two oblique lobes at apex; scutellum punctate, almost semicircular; elytron without depressions on basal half of disc; elytral punctures strong and close in basal half, evanescent towards apex; elytra non-striate, with interstrial punctures as large as strial and the latter not in regular lines; 1 deep depression on basal half of elytron adjacent to epipleuron; upper margin epipleuron not reaching base of elytron, obliterated before humerus; mesoventrite median process strongly arched to shallowly concave apex; metaventrite shining and sparsely and minutely punctured, anterior of middle without depression and without margination, edge pitted laterally; metepisternum microreticulate, finely punctured; 1 short spur on protibia, 2 on remainder.

Abdomen ( Figs 60, 66, 67, 81, 96, 98, 128): basal half pygidium (tergite 7) without pubescence and punctures; ventrites I and II not completely fused, with some movement at middle; ventrites I– V smooth and shining, not microreticulate, sparsely and minutely punctured, on apical half of I–II, and most of III– V, pubescence just visible at x40, except a pair of trichobothria on each ventrite; ventrite I with small lateral keel <0.25x ventrite length, other ventrites without keels; apex ventrite V convex in both sexes; apex of penis triangular in dorsal view, apical angle c.80°, tip slightly curved thickened in lateral view; female sternite VIII with elongate narrow basal apodeme; apex of gonocoxite setose, setae as long as stylus; spermatheca hookshaped, with loosely coiled duct.

Notes

Allsortsia maculata is only known from the two type specimens, collected in 1909 at Kuranda in the Wet Tropics bioregion ( Fig. 130). The label data of the types suggests that two separate collections were made, but in the description Lea (1922: 284) states that both specimens were collected in the “Cairns district” by F. P. Dodd and G. E. Bryant. We therefore believe that Lea replaced the original labels with his own, as was his practice when writing out new type labels (pers. obs. CAMR). Months of activity are unknown. Allsortsia maculata may reasonably be considered ‘ Endangered’ in conservation status (International Union for Conservation of Nature 2001), given its rarity, large size and restricted distribution .