Microtrachelizus occultus Kleine, 1935

Mantilleri, Antoine, 2011, Revision of the Tribe Microtrachelizini Zimmerman, 1994, from Australia: New Taxa and Records (Insecta: Coleoptera, Brentidae), Records of the Australian Museum 63 (1), pp. 89-98 : 98

Microtrachelizus occultus Kleine

Microtrachelizus occultus Kleine, 1935: 307 . Microtrachelizus species 5 , Zimmerman, 1991: 151; 1994:

195.

Material examined. 1♀, Iron Ra., N. Q., 11.5.71, J. G. Brooks, at light ( ANIC) ; 1♀, 12°43'S 143°17'E, 9 km ENE of Mt Tozer , QLD, 5–10 July 1986, T. Weir & A. Calder, collected at light ( ANIC) ; 1♂, Iron Range, Cape York Pen., N. Qld, 16–23. xi.1965, G. Monteith ( QMB) .

Habitus. Fig. 12 .

This species was described from New Guinea by Kleine (1935) and is here recorded from Australia for the first time. It was synonymized with M. bhamoensis (Senna, 1892) by Damoiseau (1987) and also so treated by Sforzi & Bartolozzi (2004). However, it is clearly different from M. bhamoensis in having the parameres not fused at the base and the prothorax hairy in front of the procoxae in males (glabrous in M. bhamoensis ). Microtrachelizus bhamoensis is an Oriental species that does not extend in its distribution eastwards to New Guinea.

Figures

Figs 9–13.Dorsal habitus ofAustralian Microtrachelizini.(9) Araiorrhinus howittii (Pascoe, 1872). (10) Higonius novenarius Damoiseau, 1987.(11) Microtrachelizus montrouzieri Senna, 1903.(12) M.occultus Kleine, 1935. (13) M.queenslandicus Damoiseau, 1987.Scale 1 mm.