Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969

Gnaspini, Pedro & Peck, Stewart B., 2019, Redescription of the ‘ older Adelopsis’ species (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) based on the analysis of type specimens, Zootaxa 4696 (1), pp. 1-62 : 18

Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969 status restablished

Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969: 407 [and Figs. 1–10 ].

Adelopsis brunneus linaresi ; Szymczakowski, 1975: 15 [and Fig. 1 ] (lowered to subspecies status).

Adelopsis brunnea linaresi ; Gnaspini, 1996: 539 (spelling corrected to feminine gender).

Holotype male in MUCV, not examined.

Length: 2.4 mm (holotype male) and 2.4–2.5 mm (2 female paratypes) (original description).

Type locality: Cueva del Guacharo, Gran Derrumbe, 1065 m, Caripe, [Monagas State], Venezuela. Distribution. Venezuela: Monagas State: known only from type locality (original description; Szymczakowski, 1975).

Taxonomic Remarks.

1) As proposed in Gnaspini (1996: 539) and Peck et al. (1998: 62), all subspecies of A. brunnea Jeannel 1936 are here raised to species status. The combination of the variation observed on aedeagus, genital segment, eyes, antenna, male mesotibia, and spermatheca allow taxon recognition (see discussion under each of these taxa).

Based on the original illustration, the aedeagus of this subspecies ( Fig. 8 in Szymczakowski, 1969) differs from that of other species in group ascutellaris, especially by having a ‘high’ apical portion of the right lobe, with a sinuate apical margin; and the profemur seems unique ( Fig. 9 in Szymczakowski, 1969). Therefore, we here reassign the status of species for this taxon.

2) This species is tentatively assigned to subgroup, since the genital segment (which is here considered important for subgroup assignment) is unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 1–3. General view of aedeagus and genital segment of Adelopsis sp. 1, aedeagus, left view; 2, aedeagus, dorsal view; 3, genital segment, ventral view; a, apex; b, base.

FIGURES 4–16. Adelopsis ascutellaris (Murray, 1856). 4-15, lectotype male in BMNH, from Caracas. 4, habitus; 5–9, aedeagus, left lateral, dorsal, right lateral, and ventral views, and frontal view of aedeagus apex; 10, last ventrite; 11, genital segment; 12, head, lateral view; 13, meso and metathorax, ventro-lateral view (of left side of specimen) [as = anapleural suture; cc = coxal cavity; mc = metastemal carina; msep = mesepimeron; mset = mesepisternum; mte = metasternum; mtet = metepisternum]; 14, mesotarsus and mesotibia; 15, metatarsus and metatibia; 16, paralectotype female in BMNH (same data), spermatheca. Scale lines = 0.5 mm; a for figs. 5–11, 16; b for figs. 4, 12–15.