Lacrimorpha subdepressa, Caterino, Michael S. & Tishechkin, Alexey K., 2014

Caterino, Michael S. & Tishechkin, Alexey K., 2014, New genera and species of Neotropical Exosternini (Coleoptera, Histeridae), ZooKeys 381, pp. 11-78 : 39-41

Lacrimorpha subdepressa sp. n. Figs 16C, F, Map 3

Type locality.

FRENCH GUIANA: Rés. des Nouragues [4.0834°N, 52.6833°W].

Type material.

Holotype female: “Rés. Natur. des Nouragues, Camp Inselberg, 4°05'N, 52°41'W, Piège vitre, 30.ix.2010, SEAG leg." (MNHN). Paratypes (4 females): 3: same locality as type, 30.xi.2010, 16.ix.2010, and 25.i.2011; 1: Rés. Natur. des Nouragues, Saut Pararé, 4°02'N, 52°41'W, FIT, 20.iv.2010, SEAG. (CHND, LSAM, MSCC).

Diagnostic description.

Length: 1.9-2.1 mm, width: 1.6-1.8 mm; as for generic description, plus the following specific characters: body rufobrunneus; right mandible with weak basal incisor tooth; apical marginal elytral stria absent; propygidium with basal marginal stria broadly interrupted at middle; pygidium with apex bluntly subacuminate, with sides slightly narrowed toward apex, barely longer than basal width; prosternal keel lacking carinal striae; prosternal lobe with at most weak fragments of marginal stria, may be obsolete; postmesocoxal stria bent lat erad behind coxa, ending freely; metaventral disk with distinct stria along basal half to two-thirds of metepisternal suture; longitudinal metepisternal suture well developed; postmetacoxal stria not distinguishable from lateral strigosity of 1st abdominal ventrite.

Remarks.

This species can be separated from the others in the genus Lacrimorpha by its slightly darker color (Fig. 16C), presence of half to two-thirds of the lateral metaventral stria, weak prosternal lobe stria, and absence of carinal striae of the prosternal keel.

Etymology.

The name of this species refers to its moderately subdepressed body form.