Monilonotum rufiventre (Gerstmeier) Bartlett & Lambkin, 2022

Bartlett, Justin S. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2022, Australian Opilonini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) part I: A revised taxonomy for Australian Opilo Latreille including descriptions of new genera and species, Zootaxa 5220 (1), pp. 1-81 : 36

Monilonotum rufiventre (Gerstmeier) comb. nov.

( Fig. 155 ; Map 2)

Olesterus rufiventris Gerstmeier, 1990: 25 .

HOLOTYPE (♁): New South Wales: Tooloom NSW, 19.1.26 ( QM) . PARATYPES (2): Queensland: Brisbane, J.S. Rodston, 17.2.41 (2 ♀, QM); Brisbane, H. Hacker, 25.11.13 (1, QM) .

Other material examined (1): Queensland: SEQ: 25°27′ Sx 150°02′E Boggomoss No. 8, via Taroom. 12 Nov 1996 Qld . Mus.survey. Day hand collection 039 / QM Reg. No. T31633 / Olesterus rufiventris Gerstmeier 1990 Det. J.S. Bartlett 2011 (1, QM) .

Diagnosis. Among its congeners, M. rufiventre comb. nov. is recognisable by its small size (5.2–6.5 mm), its entirely back elytra, its orange thoracic and abdominal ventrites, and by its puncture-associated pronotal texturing which is conspicuous when compared to the smooth pronota of several small undescribed Monilonotum species. Habitus as in Fig. 155 .

Remarks. Gerstmeier (1990) provides a detailed description of ‘ Olesterus rufiventris ’.

Figures

FIGURES 150–161. Habitus: (150) Infectostriatus differens, holotype; (151) Monilonotum bunyense, paratype; (152) Monilonotum doddi; (153) Monilonotum pascoei; (154) Monilonotum sundholmi, paratype; (155) Monilonotum rufiventre; (156–161) Notopilo, beswickensis species group—(156) Notopilo beswickensis, holotype; (157) Notopilo calicis, holotype; (158) Notopilo eremosus, holotype; (159) Notopilo tompricensis, holotype; (160) Notopilo xanthoimprocerus, holotype; (161) Notopilo xanthoprolatus, holotype (scale bars: 1.0 mm).