Cimrmanium, Bílý, Svatopluk, 2009

Bílý, Svatopluk, 2009, A new genus and species of the tribe Trigonogeniini Cobos, 1956, from Belize (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 2108, pp. 65-68 : 65

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.187826

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222785

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cimrmanium
status

gen. nov.

Cimrmanium View in CoL gen. nov. ( Figs. 3–5 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 )

Type species: Cimrmaniun angulinotum sp. nov. (present designation).

Description. Medium-sized, rather convex, elongate-ovoid, distinctly enlarged posteriorly; entire dorsal surface except for pronotum with short, recumbent, black (head) or grey (elytra) pubescence, pronotum glabrous, asetose; abdominal ventrites with extremely short, grey pubescence; head deeply impressed above frontoclypeal suture, supraantennal carinae strongly developed; antennomeres 4–11 obtusely serrate, longer than wide; eyes large, widely reniform, not projecting beyond outline of head; pronotum with fine, transverse rugae on disc, lateral pronotal margins strongly angulate at posterior fifth, deeply emarginate before posterior angles; prelateral pronotal carina well-developed, obtuse; scutellum very small, slightly longer than wide; elytra nearly regularly convex, enlarged posteriorly with rows of fine, deep, isolated punctures; elytral epipleura narrow, almost reaching elytral apex; apical third of elytral margins finely, densely serrate; prosternal process flat, nearly subparallel, anal ventrite obtusely truncate; legs long, slender, femora narrowly fusiform, tarsi with ventral adhesive pads on tarsomeres 2–4; ovipositor long, slender, strongly sclerotised with small, laterally inserted styli.

Etymology. The genus Cimrmanium gen. nov. (neuter) is named after the famous Czech traveller, innovator and the last Czech polyhistorian, Jára Cimrman.

Differential diagnosis. The genus Cimrmanium gen. nov. differs from Trigonogenium and Hovorigenium by deeply impressed frons, strongly developed supraantennal carinae, quite characteristic pronotal shape ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 ), transverse rugae on pronotal disc, posteriorly enlarged elytra ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 ) and by the whole set of characters given in the key. From Hovorigenium it differs also by larger body, not elevated alternate elytral costae and by subparallel prosternal process; from Trigonogenium by the narrow pronotum which is much narrower than the base of elytra ( Figs. 2 & 3 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 ), much finer dorsal sculpture, slightly prolonged scutellum, longer antennomeres, truncate anal ventrite, frons carinate along inner margins of eyes and by presence of transverse, elytral fields of grey pubescence.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

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