Gonaphodioides cartwrighti, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2013

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2013, Gonaphodioides cartwrighti new species from El Salvador (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (286), pp. 1-3 : 1-2

Gonaphodioides cartwrighti new species

( Fig. 1-6 )

Type locality. Monte Cristo. El Salvador.

Type repository. United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., U.S.A.

Description. Length 3.5-4.0 mm, elongate, convex, moderately shiny, glabrous. Piceous black; clypeal margin and pronotal sides reddish brown; elytra variously yellowish spotted; legs reddish brown, antennal club piceous. Head with epistome moderately convex on disc, slightly depressed medially toward clypeal margin, evenly, rather coarsely punctured, punctation somewhat sparser on disc; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, very thinly bordered, edge glabrous; genae round, not ciliate, slightly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture almost obsolete. Pronotum transverse, convex, shiny, dually punctured; large punctures, four to five times larger than contiguous small ones, irregularly sparse on sides; small punctures, somewhat variable in size, coarser on sides, superficial and finer on disc, evenly sparse throughout; lateral margins feebly arcuate, almost parallel toward the base, rather thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles truncate and truncation inward sinuate; base bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum elongate, irregularly punctured basally. Elytra oval elongate, slightly widened posteriorly, minutely denticulate at shoulder; striae rather strongly coarsely punctured, crenulate; interstriae feebly convex, superficially alutaceous, finely sparsely but distinctly punctured. Hind tibiae superior spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter longer than following three segments combined. Male: head and pronotum relatively less densely and coarsely punctured; metasternal plate excavate; aedeagus Fig. 4-5 . Female: head and pronotum relatively more densely and coarsely punctured; metasternal plate almost flat.

Type material. EL SALVADOR: Monte Cristo , 07-09.V.1958, leg. O. L. Cartwright (holotype, male, allotype and 1 paratype, USNM; 2 paratypes, DCGI) .

Figures

Figures 1-6. Gonaphodioides cartwrighti (Monte Cristo, El Salvador, holotype). 1-2) Habitus of male (morphological details and length ideogram). 3) Left labial palp (ventral view). 4-5) Aedeagus (dorsal and lateral views). 6) Epipharynx.