Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Subfamily Peloniinae O (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IX. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Muisca S
Author
Opitz, Pitz Pinola Weston
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Muisca mestolinea
OPITZ
nov.sp.
(
Figs 32
, 63, 96, 110, 140)
Holotype
:
♂
.
ECUADOR
,
COTOPAXI
,
LAS PAMPAS
,
12 JUN 1997
, G. ONORE (
QCAZ
).
Paratypes
:
23 specimens
.
Ecuador
:
Provincia de Cotopaxi
,
Las Pampas
,
26-IV-1997
,
1500 m
,
G. Onore
(
QCAZ
, 1)
;
N of San Francisco
de los
Pampas
, vicinity
Rio
Esmeraldas
,
14-15-V- 1993
,
4400-5000 feet
,
Mercury
vapor light,
L. Herman
(
AMNH
, 1)
;
Provincia de Pichincha
,
Alluriquín
,
26-I-1985
,
M. Jiménez
(
QCAZ
, 1)
;
Rio Mindo
,
3-IV-2001
,
F. T. Hovore
(
JNRC
, 1)
;
Mindo
,
26-I-2004
,
F. T. Hovore
(
WOPC
, 1)
;
Tinalandia
,
2-XI-1983
, L,
Huggert
(
WOPC
, 3)
;
U del
Toachi
,
Cuesta del Gallinazo
,
6-III-
1997
, 950 m,
G. Onore
(
WOPC
, 1)
;
Provincia de Bolivar
,
Balzapamba
,?-III-IV-1894,
M. de Mathan
(
MNHN
, 10;
WOPC
, 4)
.
D i a g n o s i s:
Muisca mestolinea
specimens may be distinguished from those of its sister species,
M. anachyma
, by coloration of the elytral disc. In
M. mestolinea
specimens the elytral disc shows 4 dark brown lines. In
M. anachyma
specimens the elytral disc is nearly uniformly castaneous with a faint indication of 3 punctiform infuscations. Also, the sutural margin is dark brown in specimens of
M. mestolinea
, which is not the case in those of
M. anachyma
.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length
5.5 mm
; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in
Fig. 140
. Color: Mostly light castaneous; pronotum with 2 paralateral black lines; elytral sutural margins darkened and each disc with 4 black short lines. Head: Funicular antennomeres subfiliform, capitulum about as long as combined length of funicular antennomeres, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular (
Fig. 32
), antennomere 11 obovate; frons wider than width of eye (
EW
/FW 20/30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 63) oblong (
PW
/PL 73/85), side margin with well-developed tubercle, disc subglabrous at midline; elytral asetiferous punctation minute, striate to distal 2/3
rd
(
EL
/EW 230/60). Abdomen: Pygidium subquadrate; posterior margin of 6
th
visible sternite concave at middle; aedeagus, phallic apex as in
Fig. 110.
V a r i a t i o n: Length
5.2-7.3 mm
; width 2.0-
2.7 mm
. The infuscation of the sutural margin varies in expression.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected from April to June, one with a Mercury vapor light set at an altitude between
1341-1524 m
. One specimen was collected at
950 m
.
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet,
mestolinea
, is a compound name that stems from the Greek
mesto
(= filled) and the Latin
linea
(= line). The name refers to the dark lines on the dorsum of this beetle.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (
Fig.96
): This species is known from
Ecuador
.