Spiloscapha toxopeusi, Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2012

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2012, New species and records of the genus Spiloscapha Bates (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Oriental and Papuan Regions (part 2), Zootaxa 3336 (1), pp. 62-68 : 65

Spiloscapha toxopeusi sp. n.

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Type material. Holotype: MOLUCCAS, ♀, Island Buru, Station 4 , 29.–31.I.1922, leg. L. J. Toxopeus, BMNH . Description. Shape and colour pattern of pronotum and elytra see Fig. 4 . Head, pronotum, and scutellum light brown; elytron light brown with darker basal part and darker spot medially; ventral side of body light brown. Head with similar punctation as on pronotum; antenna bicoloured with antennomeres 1–3 brown and antennomeres 4–11 dark. Pronotum with fine punctures, distance between punctures 2–6 times longer than puncture diameter, surface between punctures shining; anterior margin completely bordered, basal margin unbordered. Elytron with 7 somewhat irregular rows of punctures without striae, third row with approximately 43 punctures; intervals flat, with scattered punctures, surface between punctures shining; lateral margin visible from dorsal nearly on its entire length. Punctures on metaventrite and abdominal ventrites only slightly coarser laterally than medially. Aedeagus unknown, only female available. Body length 3.8 mm.

Diagnosis. Spiloscapha toxopeusi sp. n. can be recognized by its body shape and dorsal colour pattern. Body shape similar to S. thalloides (Pascoe, 1869) from Australia (NSW) (figured in Schawaller 1997), but this species is larger, the colour pattern is different, and the head has a distinctly rougher punctation than the pronotum. All known species from adjacent New Guinea do not have light elytra with dark spots.

Etymology. Named in honor of Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894–1951), Dutch lepidopterologist and collector of the holotype.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Dorsal view of Spiloscapha species and aedeagus. S. assamica (1), S. grimmi (2), S. rufonotata comb. n. (3), S. toxopeusi sp. n. (4), S. meghalaya sp. n. (5, 6), S. bipunctata (7), S. bryanti sp. n. (8); S. cechovskyi sp. n. (9), Spiloscapha sp. (10).