Austrocyphon perdoctus, Zwick, Peter, 2013

Zwick, Peter, 2013, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon, Zootaxa 3706 (1), pp. 1-74 : 22

Austrocyphon perdoctus , sp. n.

( Figs. 45–49 )

Type material. TAS: Holotype: ♂, a misassociated syntype of A. doctus originally labelled: " doctus Lea TYPE Ida Bay Caves/ 14126 Cyphon doctus Lea Ida Bay Caves Type ". The fragments of body and the genitalia together in Euparal on a small pinned plastic slide ( SAMA). Paratypes: 2♂, Cradle Mtn. Tasmania Carter & Lea (one of them uniformly brown); 1♂, Mt. Wellington Tas. Lea (all SAMA).— 1♂, 41.50S 148.03E TAS Pelion Hut 3 km S Mt.Oakleigh, 5–10 Feb.1990 D.Naumann; 3 ♂, Cradle Mtn Tasmania J.Armstrong / Cyphon doctus Lea id. by J.Armstrong comp. with type (all ANIC).

Habitus. BL 2.2–2.5 mm. BL/BW ca. 1.9. Slender, flat, resembles A. doctus . Elytra may be patterned as in that species, or be uniformly dark brown, for example one of the two males from Cradle Mtn.

Male. T9: Caudolateral claws slender, directed backward, separated by deep notches from plate which is a conical, caudally notched tongue apically beset with sharp asperities. It is about twice as long as wide at base. S9 oval, base narrow, apex wide, shallowly excised, with some pilosity.

Penis: pala with slender frame, apical section with short flange along sides that reaches neither the tip nor the transverse bridge, foramen narrow and short. Trigonium narrow, waisted, the strong centema occupies all of the narrow tip, no spicules.

Female. Unknown. See notes under A. doctus .

Etymology. The Latin prefix per, in combination with the name of the sibling species, doctus (= learned): the super-doctus.

Figures

FIGURES 45 – 49. Austrocyphon perdoctus sp. n., male. 45, T 9 (tips of apodemes not shown) and 46, penis, dorsoventral view (holotype, Ida Caves); 47, T 9 (Cradle Mtn); 48 & 49, S 9 and T 9, dorsoventral view (Pelion Hut). All to the same scale.