Physodactylus pujoli Fleutiaux, 1940

Rosa, Simone Policena, 2014, Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Physodactylinae (Coleoptera, Elateridae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (18), pp. 217-292 : 277-278

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.18
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scientific name	Physodactylus pujoli Fleutiaux, 1940
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( Figs. 29 View FIGURE 29 , 35P View FIGURE 35 )

Physodactylus pujoli Fleutiaux, 1940c: 164 , 166; Blackwelder, 1944: 292.

Redescription (male, Fig. 35P View FIGURE 35 ): Integument very shiny; head, antenna, ventral pterothorax and legs dark brown, pronotum light brown with borders (or borders and disc) darker, elytra evenly brown or gradually darker apicad; ventral abdomen black with lateral borders brown; pilosity brown. Total length 9.5-12.0 mm; elytral base as wide as prothorax, elytra 2.8-3.0x longer than pronotum. Frons concave, frontal carina produced; antenna ( Fig. 29A View FIGURE 29 ) reaching the base of posterior angles; antennomere IV as wide as long, V-VI 1.1-1.2x wider than long, VII-VIII as wide as long, IX-X 1.1-1.2x longer than wide, XI elliptical 2.0x longer than wide, apex constricted. Pronotum ( Fig. 29B View FIGURE 29 ) weakly convex 1.22-1.27x wider than long, with lateral sides nearly straight from posterior angles or posterior third to anterior margin; anteromedian margin weakly produced anteriad; posterior angles short, convex; lateral carina complete weakly impressed anteriorly, dorsally visible only on posterior half; disc with punctures 2-4 diameters apart, a little larger and denser on lateral and anterior borders.

metatibia; H, I, aedeagus (dorsal, ventral).

Lamellae of pro- and mesotarsomeres I smaller than Material examined: BRAZIL. Bahia: 2 exs. (MNHN). the others, minuscule or absent on metatarsomere I. Elytra parallel-sided on anterior 2/3 then tapering to Distribution: BRAZIL. Bahia: Ribeirão do Largo. apex, striae with rows of large and small punctation; interstices convex, scarcely punctate, rugose; apical Remarks: The prosternal process was not examined. striae with punctures about 2.0 larger than those of Physodactylus pujoli is similar to P. brasiliensis in its pronotal lateral border. Abdomen with ventrites 2-4 very shiny integument, color pattern and weakly constrongly concave laterally, ventrite 1 with setae a little vex pronotum, but can be promptly distinguished smaller than those of ventrite 2, black area of ven- from this species by its brown pilosity. It shares with trites 1-4 covered with long decumbent and semi- P. asper and P. fischeri the elytral striae punctation, but erect setae and dense punctation, lateral brown area its striae are more deeply impressed and distinct at with punctures finer and setae sparser. Pregenitalic apex. Physodactulys pujoli shares the antennal length segments and aedeagus covered with stout dark- with P. asper sp. nov. and P. girardi sp. nov. It is symbrown setae. Sternite VIII subrectangular, posterior patric with the former, from which it differs in the margin nearly straight, anterior sclerotization 0.44x color pattern, pilosity of the ventrite 1, pronotal the total width of sternite; sternite IX tapered to apex. punctation and elytral striae and interstices.

Aedeagus ( Figs. 29C, D View FIGURE 29 ): Phallobase 0.44x the total length of aedeagus, 1.12x longer than wide, length ratio between lateroposterior and median parts 13.7; paramere with ventral surface weakly sclerotized laterally and along the anteromedian margin; penis with basal strut 0.26x its total length, articulated to the parameres by a translucent membrane; ventral sclerite linear weakly sclerotized apically.

Holotype: [ Cachimbo , Prov. Bahia, Ch. Pujol 1890], [ TYPE], [ Physodactylus pujoli Fleut., FLEUTIAUX det. type], [Muséum Paris, Coll. E. Fleutiaux], [Lectotype], male ( MNHN).

Paratypes: [Cachimbo, Prov. Bahia, Ch. Pujol 1890], [COTYPE], [ Physodactylus pujoli Fleut., FLEUTIAUX det. cotype], [Muséum Paris, Coll. E. Fleutiaux], [Lectotype], 1 ex. ( MNHN) .