Epimetopus latus, Perkins, 2012

Perkins, Philip D., 2012, 3531, Zootaxa 3531, pp. 1-95 : 20-22

Epimetopus latus , new species

Figs. 25 (habitus), 31 (aedeagus), 127 (map)

Type Material. Holotype (male): Colombia: Cesar, Pueblo Bello; Sierra de Santa Marta , beaten ex tree debris nr. stream, elev. 1200 m, 10° 25' N, 73° 35' W, 14–15 iv 1968, B. Malkin ( FMNH) . Paratype: Venezuela: Miranda, Los Chorros , 10° 30' N, 66° 50' W, 29 iv 1922, [collr. unknown] (1 FMNH) .

Differential Diagnosis. A moderately large and rather coarsely granulate species ( Fig. 25); however, reliable determinations will be based on examination of the aedeagus. The aedeagus is similar to that of E. latisoides in that the parameres are very broad, have the medial margins straight or nearly so, and have two very small setae at the apex of each ( Figs. 31, 45). However, the aedeagus of E. latus is larger (length 0.38 mm vs. 0.31 mm), the median lobe is wider and the apex is shaped slightly differently.

Description. Size: holotype (length/width, mm): body (length from anterior margin of pronotum to elytral apices) 1.79/0.93; head (width) 0.50; pronotum 0.64/0.61; elytra 1.17/0.93. Habitus and sculpture as illustrated ( Fig. 25). Granules of dorsum rather coarse. Head black, dorsum brown to reddish brown, venter and coxae dark brown, maxillary palpi testaceous. Eye with ca. 3–4 facets between canthus and posterior margin. Protibiae slightly arcuate.

Elytral punctures large; elongate granules linking punctures prominent. Metaventral depression moderately deep, ca. eight granules along base.

Etymology. Named in reference to the wide parameres.

Distribution. Currently known from Colombia and Venezuela ( Fig. 127).