Austrocyphon stylifer, Zwick, Peter, 2013

Zwick, Peter, 2013, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon, Zootaxa 3706 (1), pp. 1-74 : 34-36

Austrocyphon stylifer , sp. n.

( Figs. 98–101 )

Type material. Holotype: ♂, Island Bend Kosciusko N.S.W. J.Armstrong Nov.52 ( ANIC). Paratypes: NSW: 1♂, Jenolan N.S.W. / Cyphon 8806 N.S. Wales ( SAMA). TAS: 2 ♂, Launceston TAS. JAN. [year not given] C.Watts ( SAMA; in 1959 J. Armstrong labelled these two specimens with an unpublished manuscript name). VIC: 1♂, Eltham, Vic. Wilson 6.9.19 (MV; received as C. adelaidae ). 3♂, VIC, Acheron R. at Narbethong, 27.9.1972, P.Zwick (PZ)

Habitus. BL 2.5–3.1mm, BL/BW 1.9. Almost as slender as A. stylatus , elongate, elytra largely parallel-sided. Brown, sides of pronotum more or less yellowish.

Male. T9 with postero-lateral slender claws deeply separated from median portion which resembles a fish tail. S9 well sclerotized, three-lobed. Lateral lobes short, ovoid, with long apical setae, median lobe very long, medially a little widened, ending in a sharp narrow point.

Penis slender, widest just before midlength. Trigonium slender, not nearly filling the foramen, centema a slender claw. The tegmen forms an oval base embracing the pala of the penis. The slender parameres are rolled like the spatha of an Arum -flower, medially with some microtrichia.

Female. Not known.

Etymology. From the Latin stylifer , somebody who carries a stylus.

Figures

FIGURES 98 – 106. Austrocyphon males: Austrocyphon stylifer sp. n.: 98, T 8 and S 8; 99, penis; 100, T 9; 101, S 9, tegmen and parameres, superimposed. A. quinquespinosus sp. n.: 102, T 9, dorsal view; 103, the same, lateral view, dorsal face on right hand side; 104, S 9; 105, tegmen and parameres; 106, penis. All to the same scale.