Venezolanoconnus ranchoi Franz

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2012, Taxonomy of ' Euconnus complex'. Part I. Morphology of Euconnus s. str. and revision of Euconnomorphus Franz and Venezolanoconnus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 3555, pp. 55-82 : 79-81

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282872

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166887

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Venezolanoconnus ranchoi Franz
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Venezolanoconnus ranchoi Franz View in CoL

( Figs. 63, 64 View FIGURES 59 – 64 , 67 View FIGURES 65 – 70 , 71–74 View FIGURES 71 – 74 )

Venezolanoconnus ranchoi Franz, 1988: 82 View in CoL ; Fig. 26 View FIGURES 25 – 27 .

Material studied. Holotype: 3: three labels: "Rancho Grande / b. Maracay, Vene- / zuela, lg. Franz" with "SA244" or "Sa249" on the reverse side [white, printed; reverse handwritten], " Venezolanoconnus / ranchoi m. / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], " Holotypus " [red, handwritten] ( NHMW). Paratypes (8 exx.: 1 3, 7 ƤƤ): same data as for the holotype ( NHMW).

Diagnosis. This species can be identified on the basis of nearly circular pronotal disc.

Redescription. Body of male ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) strongly convex, elongate and moderately slender, with moderately long appendages, BL 1.48 mm; glossy, uniformly reddish-brown with slightly lighter legs and palps; vestiture slightly lighter than cuticle.

Head ( Fig. 67 View FIGURES 65 – 70 ) rhomboidal in shape, broadest at eyes, HL 0.25 mm, HW 0.25 mm; tempora slightly shorter than eyes, strongly convergent caudad; vertex strongly transverse, convex; frons confluent with vertex, slightly convex, subtrapezoidal and steeply, abruptly declining towards strongly transverse clypeus; supraantennal tubercles barely marked; eyes large and moderately strongly convex, kidney-shaped and transverse in relation to the long axis of the head, each composed of ca. 40 small and smooth ommatidia. Punctures on head dorsum fine and sparse, inconspicuous; setae short, sparse, erect, those on vertex and tempora directed mesally. Antennae ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) slender, AnL 0.70–0.73 mm; antennomeres I–VII each elongate; VIII–X each slightly transverse; XI 1.5× as long as broad, with blunt subconical apex.

Pronotum ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) in dorsal view nearly circular, broadest slightly behind middle, PL 0.38 mm, PW 0.40 mm; anterior margin long and evenly arcuate; lateral margins strongly rounded; hind pronotal angles indistinctly marked, obtuse; posterior margin nearly straight; base of pronotum without foveae. Punctures on pronotal disc fine, inconspicuous; setae long, moderately dense and strongly erect, those on sides of pronotum bristle-like, distinctly thicker than those in middle.

Elytra ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) elongate oval and more convex than pronotum, broadest slightly behind middle, EL– 0.85 mm, EW 0.65–0.68 mm, EI 1.26–1.31; base of elytra straight; humeral calli moderately prominent, each sharply delimited mesally by subhumeral line as long as only 0.2× EL; elytral apices separately rounded. Punctures on elytral disc more distinct but sparser than those on pronotum, extremely shallow and with diffused margins; setae moderately long, moderately sparse and nearly recumbent, about as thin as those on vertex and distinctly thinner than those on sides of pronotum. Hind wings not studied.

Legs ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) moderately long and slender; all tibiae nearly straight.

Aedeagus ( Figs. 71–74 View FIGURES 71 – 74 ) moderately stout, AeL 0.18 mm, with gradually narrowing subtriangular apical part; internal structures asymmetrical, lightly sclerotized and indistinctly delimited; parameres very broad, with apical or slightly subapical pair of setae.

Female. Externally similar to male, differs in much smaller eyes ( Figs. 64 View FIGURES 59 – 64 ) (each composed of only 6 ommatidia) and slightly shorter antennae. BL 1.48 mm; HL 0.25 mm, HW 0.25 mm, AnL 0.60–0.63 mm; PL 0.35–0.38 mm, PW 0.40 mm; EL 0.85–0.88 mm, EW 0.65–0.68 mm, EI 1.26–1.31.

Distribution. Northern Venezuela, Aragua State.

Remarks. Despite the data given in the original description ( Franz 1988a), one of the paratypes turned out to be a male, not female.

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Venezolanoconnus

Loc

Venezolanoconnus ranchoi Franz

Jałoszyński, Paweł 2012
2012
Loc

Venezolanoconnus ranchoi

Franz 1988: 82
1988
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