Austrocyphon setifer, Zwick, Peter, 2013

Zwick, Peter, 2013, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon, Zootaxa 3706 (1), pp. 1-74 : 62

Austrocyphon setifer , sp. n.

( Figs. 204–208 )

Type material. Holotype ♂, paratype 1♂: Acacia Plateau N.S.W. J.Armstrong / Cyphon fenestratus Id. by J.Armstrong ( ANIC).

Habitus. BL 2.4–2.5 mm, BL/BW 1.5. Contour regularly oval. Dark brown, with yellowish marks: labrum, base of antennae, legs, periphery of pronotum (in the middle dark pigment reaches the front margin), and a round spot near suture behind basal third of elytral length. Small marks next to scutellum and on shoulder less obvious.

Male. T8 with an anteriorly protruding lappet between the long straight apodemes. T8 is caudally narrowed, margin semicircularly notched, a pair of strong socketed spines on either side, no other pilosity or microtrichia. S8 a small boomerang-shaped structure with some small setae near the ends.

T9 also caudally narrowed and with a semicircular notch but bare. Apodemes with enlarged front ends. S9 oval, with mushroom-shaped darker pattern; no pilosity noticed.

Pala shorter and narrower than distal portion of penis. Distal frame narrow, not flanged, foramen much larger than conical trigonium with narrow centema; no apical spicules.

Tegmen with short anteriorly truncate capulus, parameres outwardly curved slender struts with small subterminal hooklet.

Female. Unknown.

Notes. There were altogether 8 specimens on a single card, 4 of them females which were not studied. The other two males were Austrocyphon pictus .

Etymology. The Latin noun setifer describes somebody carrying setae.

Figures

FIGURES 204 – 213. Austrocyphon setifer sp. n. (204 – 208) and A. tropicus sp. n. (209 – 213), males. 204, T 8 and S 8; 205, T 9; 206, S 9; 207, penis; 208, tegmen and parameres. Figs. 204 – 208 to the same scale. 209, T 8 and S 8; 210, T 9; 211, S 9; 212, tegmen and parameres; 213, penis, dorsal view. Figs. 209 – 212 to the same scale.