Selenophorus clypealis Ball & Shpeley

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 : 41-42

Selenophorus clypealis Ball & Shpeley Figs 25A, 27 A–C, 30

Selenophorus clypealis Ball & Shpeley, 1992: 101.- Ball 1992: 85.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 376.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 79.

Type material.

Complete label data for type material (holotype (MCZC) and allotype (WIBF)) are provided in the original description.

Type locality.

Source of the Matelas (River), near Ennery, Artibonite Department, Haiti, Hispaniola.

Diagnosis.

This species is readily separated from the other four members of the hylacis species group on a combination of: clypeus with anterior margin markedly concave, small size and pronotum with hind angles rounded.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 25A. Labrum with anterior margin deeply notched; clypeus with anterior margin markedly concave. Antennae, mouthparts and legs testaceous. Dorsal and ventral surfaces rufo-brunneous to brunneo-piceous; lateral bead of pronotum paler. Head and pronotum shiny, microlines not visible at 100 ×. Elytra shiny, with mesh pattern transverse, transverse microlines just visible at 100 ×; iridescent, brighter than observed in S. parvus . Pronotum with posteriolateral impressions impunctate; posteriolateral angles rounded. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Males with adhesive vestiture on tarsomeres 1-4 of fore- and mid-tarsi; females without adhesive vestiture on tarsomeres 1-4 of fore- and mid-tarsi. Tarsomere 1 of fore- and mid-tarsus in females not expanded. Both males and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Fig. 27 A–C. Apical portion of phallic median lobe moderately long, trapezoidal, symmetrically broadly rounded in dorsal/ventral aspect, with narrow dorsal flange; endophallus medially with three patches of short, thin spines, one darkened microtrichial field near basal bulb in left lateral aspect; without lamina; ostium anopic. Ventral surface of shaft smooth.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Very similar to S. dessalinesi , Fig. 29A. For details, see this topic for S. dessalinesi , below.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 30. This species is known only from the Greater Antillean island of Hispaniola and the island of Little St. James in the Virgin Islands.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

Within the West Indian hylacis species group, the range of S. clypealis is overlapped by the ranges of S. subquadratus and S. dessalinesi . Relationships of S. clypealis are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 6 specimens (1 male, 5 females). See Appendix for details.