Selenophorus latior Darlington

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 34-37

Selenophorus latior Darlington Figs 18B, 19 D–F, 20, 21

Selenophorus latior Darlington, 1934: 109. HOLOTYPE male: Haina, Santo Domingo, G.N. Wolcott (AMNH). One female PARATYPE: Pt. Congrejos, Puerto Rico, Feb. 8, 1920, G.N. Wolcott (USNM).- Blackwelder 1944: 49. - Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.- Ball 1992: 85.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 79.

Type locality.

Haina, Santo Domingo Province, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola.

Diagnosis.

This species is readily separated from the other species in the latior species group by a combination of: elytra with slightly transverse microsculpture, sculpticells about 2 –4× wide as long and pronotum with posteriolateral impressions impunctate.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 18B. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae with one or two basal antennomeres testaceous, remaining antennomeres darker; palpi infuscated, rufous to rufo-brunneous, tips testaceous; femora bicolored, rufous to brunneous, base paler; tibae paler than femora, testaceous to rufo-testaceous. Dorsal and ventral surfaces brunneous to brunneo-piceous; elytral epipleuron paler than disc. Head with mesh pattern isodiametric; pronotum with mesh pattern slightly transverse, sculpticells about 1.5 × wide as long; elytra subiridescent, with mesh pattern transverse, sculpticells about 2 –4× wide as long. Pronotum with posteriolateral impressions impunctate; posteriolateral angles rounded. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Males with a brush of about 24 long setae and females with only about 7 long setae on anterioventral margin of fore-femur. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Fig. 19 D–F. Apical portion of phallic median lobe markedly long, narrowly tapered, tip capped, bulb-like, with sharp edges in right and left lateral aspects; endophallus with two rows of long spines, the left row longer than the right row; lamina with tip rounded, hook on left side. Ventral surface of shaft with two rows of basally directed saw-toothed ridges.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Fig. 20. Gonocoxite 2 (gc2) moderately thick, somewhat falcate. Bursa copulatrix (bc) moderately long; spermatheca (sp) moderately long, sausage-like, originating near base of common oviduct (co); markedly long spermathecal gland duct (spgd) originating near base of spermatheca. Spermathecal gland (spg) small, sausage-like, with bulbous swelling of duct, larger than gland, basad gland.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 21. The known range of this species extends in the Greater Antilles from eastern Hispaniola, east to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and then southward through the Lesser Antilles to Grenada.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The range of this species overlaps only that of S. barbadensis on the Lesser Antillean island of St. Vincent. Its relationships are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 131 specimens (58 males, 73 females). See Appendix for details.