Amboakis waodani Opitz, 2010

Opitz, Weston, 2010, New taxa of Epiphloeinae Kuwert (Cleridae) and Chaetosomatidae Crowson (Coleoptera: Cleroidea), Insecta Mundi 2010 (123), pp. 1-28 : 9-10

Amboakis waodani Opitz , new species

Figure 4 , 30 , 42 , 51 .

Holotype. Male. ECUADOR: Orellana Reserva Ethnica Waorani , 1 km S Oncone Gare Camp, 76 o 26’W 39 o 10’S, 6-VII-1995 T.L. Erwin ( USNM). (Specimen point mounted, antenna affixed to paper point; gender label affixed to support card; card with metathoracic wing; locality label; second locality label; USNM acronymic label; Holotype label; plastic vial with abdomen and aedeagus.)

Paratypes. None.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 51 ). This species is most closely allied to the Mexican A. katatonis whose specimens have the elytra homogeneously dark brown. In A. waodani specimens the elytra are bicolorous, with the disc showing a wide obliquely positioned yellow streak.

Description. Size: Length 6.0 mm: width 2.1 mm. Integument: Cranium mostly yellowish, vertex with a narrow black line; pronotum minutely dark brown at lower sides, disc broadly black, with two broad paralateral yellow streaks; elytra broadly dark brown at basal half of sutural margin and at distal third; legs, prothoracic and metathoracic legs dark brown, metafemur mostly yellow, metatibiae and metatarsi dark brown. Head: Wider than pronotum (40:38); vertex narrower than eye (9:14); funicular antennomeres considerably expanded ( Fig. 4 ). Thorax: Pronotum, transverse (38:31), side margins more convex than tuberculate, punctations minute, discal trichobothrium set in deep, transverse shallow, and spheroid depression; elytra, form broad rectangular, ratio of elytral length to elytral width 2:1, ratio of elytral length to pronotal length 5:1, punctations small, seriate and arranged into 11 rows, shallowly impressed, punctations not wider than width of interstitial spaces, distal region of epipleuron margin not spinous, disc vested profusely with dark setae; protibial anterior margin with 7 spines. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in figure 30. Alimentary Canal: Ventricular crypts poorly developed; 4 cryptonephridial Malpighian tubules. Mesodermal Male Reproductive Organs ( Fig. 42 ): Two pairs of accessory glands; testis composed of 12 follicles.

Variation. One specimen examined.

Natural History. The Holotype was collected during July by fogging tree leaves.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Etymology. The specific epithet waodani is a noun in apposition and a dedicatory name to honor the indigenous people of the Yasuní forests of Ecuador.

Taxonomic Notes. Among the Amboakis species keyed in Opitz (2006: 119) A. waodani Opitz is most closely related to the Mexican A. katatonis Opitz. The following changes are made to the aforementioned key:

13(11'). Elytral punctations arranged into 11 rows, few punctations misaligned near sutural margin ....

................................................................................................................................................ 14 – Elytral punctations arranged into 10 rows ............................................................................... 15

14(13). Vertex wider than width of eye; elytra all dark brown ( México: Michoacán; Jalisco) ...................

..................................................................................................... Amboakis katatonis Opitz – Vertex narrower than width of eye; elytra bicolorous, with a wide obliquely directed yellow band

( Ecuador: Orellana) ...................................................................... Amboakis waodani Opitz

Figures

Figure 1-15. Antennae. 1) Amboakis ampla. 2) Amboakis capitata. 3) A. stenosis. 4) A. waodani. 5) Madoniella aspera. 6) M. divida. 7) Plocamocera quadrula. 8) P. clinata. 9) Amboakis antegalba. 10) A. diffusa. 11) Madoniella spilota. 12) Amboakis demagna. 13) Epiphloeus erwini. 14) Madoniella darlingtoni. 15) Plocamocera lena.

Figure 25-38. Aedeagi. 25) Amboakis ampla. 26) A. antegalba. 27) Amboakis demagna. 28) Amboakis capitata. 29) A. diffusa. 30) A. waodani. 31) Epiphloeus erwini. 32) Epiphloeus pulcherrimus. 33) Madoniella divida. 34) Plocamocera lena. 35) Pyticeroides latisentis. 36) P. moraguesi. 37) P. turbosiris. 38) P. ustulatis.

Figure 39-46. Various organs. 39-42. Mesodermal male internal organs. 39) Pyticeroides latisentis. 40) P. pinnacerinis. 41) P. ustulatis. 42) A. waodani. 43-45. Aedeagi. 43) P. pinnacerinis. 44) P. parvoporis. 45) P. pullis. 46) Epiphloeus erwini male pygidium.

Figure 47-58. Habiti. 47) Amboakis ampla. 48) A. antegalba. 49) A. diffusa. 50) Amboakis demagna. 51) A. waodani. 52) Epiphloeus erwini. 53) Madoniella aspera. 54) Madoniella darlingtoni. 55). Madoniella divida. 56) Madoniella spilota. 57) Plocamocera clinata. 58) P. lena.