Muisca hexa, Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston, 2018

Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston, 2018, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Subfamily Peloniinae O (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IX. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Muisca S, Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 587-653 : 614

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4004283

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4339235

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA3F7E-FFD2-FFAA-0CF3-B3CDFCA0C423

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Muisca hexa
status

nov.sp.

Muisca hexa OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 29 View Figs 14-33 , 58, 94, 137)

Holotype: ♀. Brézil, Rio de Janeiro, 1883, P. Germain ( MNHN).

Paratypes: 2 specimens. Brazil: Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro,?-?-1883, P. Germain ( MNHN, WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: Muisca hexa specimens may be distinguished from those of its sister species, M. maculosa , by coloration of the pronotal disc. In M. hexa specimens the pronotal disc is uniformly castaneous. In M. maculosa specimens the pronotal disc shows two brown maculae.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.5 mm; width 2.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 137 View Figs 137-140 . Color: Castaneous, except thoracic sternum black, elytral disc with 4 mall black spots, and elytral apex black. Head: Funicular antennomeres subfiliform progressively more triangular, capitulum longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular ( Fig. 29 View Figs 14-33 ), antennomere 11 obovate; eyes coarse and bulging, frons wider than width of eye ( EW /FW 30/35). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 58) oblong ( PW /PL 90/110), side margin with well-developed tubercle, punctation distributed throughout disc; elytral asetiferous punctation striate to distal 3/4 th ( EL /EW 255/75). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 4.3-7.0 mm; width 2.0- 2.5 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, hexa, stems from the Greek hex (= six). I refer to the 6 black punctations near the elytral sutural margin.

D i s t r i b u t i o n ( Fig.94 View Fig ): This species is known only from Brazil.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

PW

Paleontological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Muisca

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF