Notopilo variipes (Chevrolat) Bartlett & Lambkin, 2022

Bartlett, Justin S. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2022, Australian Opilonini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) part I: A revised taxonomy for Australian Opilo Latreille including descriptions of new genera and species, Zootaxa 5220 (1), pp. 1-81 : 59-60

Notopilo variipes (Chevrolat) comb. nov.

( Figs 12 , 56 , 93 , 128 , 171 , 183 ; Map 3)

Opilo variipes Chevrolat, 1874: 285 .

Type material. LECTOTYPE ♁ (here designated): New South Wales: Sidney [illegible] // variipes Chv Type Sydney // TYPE // Museum Paris Coll. Chevrolat Coll. Sedillot 1935 ( MNHN) ( Fig. 183 ).

Comment on lectotype designation. As Chevrolat (1874) made no reference to specimens in his description it cannot be assumed that the nominal species group name Opilo variipes was based on a single specimen ( ICZN 1999: Recommendation 73F). The MNHN specimen labelled ‘type’ must therefore be considered a syntype ( ICZN 1999: Article 73.2) and available for lectotype designation ( ICZN 1999: Article 74.1). Condition of lectotype: A3–11 of right antenna missing, frass and debris attached to many longer setae, right side of metaventrite torn at exit point of pin, present pin not original; otherwise in good condition.

Other material examined (63 specimens): Victoria. 37.59S 147.43E, Rotomah Is. , 20km SE by S Bairnsdale, VIC, 20-23 Feb. 1987, D.C.F. Rentz & J. Balderson (1 ♀, ANIC) ; CE Cole, Melbourne , 9.3.18 // 11 // congruus // COL-65659 (1 ♁, NMV) ; Barton , Victoria, J.E.Dixon (1 ♀, NMV) ; Trentham , Victoria, E.T. Smith (1 ♁, NMV) ; Launching Place , Vic., C. Oke // COL-65652 (1 ♁, NMV) ; Na Na Goon , 21.1.[?], E. Smith (1 ♁, NMV) ; Victoia, Grampians // Schenkling det. // DEI Muncheberg Col —01931 (1 ♁, SDEI) ; Victoria 1880 // Museum Paris (Coll. C. H. Schill) H. Donckier 1909 (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Victoria Australie // Ex Musaeo E. Hintz // Museum Paris ex Coll R. Oberthur (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Australie Victoria // 10 // Opilo variipes Chev. // Museum Paris Coll. M. Pic (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Victoria Australie // Museum Paris Coll. M. Pic (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Australie Victoria // variipes Chev. // Ex Musaeo E. Hintz // Museum Paris 1952 Coll R. Oberthur (1 ♀, MNHN) ; Victoria // Museum Paris Coll. Castelnau Coll. Sedillot 1935 (1 ♁, MNHN) . New South Wales. R.H. Mulder Collection // Lilyvale 17-11-1973 N.S. W.— R.H.M. // K 304493 (1 ♁, AM) ; Culoul Range 6.1.1979 // K 304496 (1 ♁, AM) ; K. K. Spence Collection // French’s Forest KKS xii 33 // K 304556 (1 ♁, AM) ; Australia : Federal Hwy N.S.W., ii.63, B.P. Moore (1 ♀, ANIC) ; 37.13S 149.43E NSW East Boyd NP 54km SE Bombala, 6 Dec. 2004 - 12 Jan. 2005 C. Lambkin, N. Starick // Anteaters Rd. Malaise Trap ANIC bulk sample 2614 (1 ♀, ANIC) ; 105km SW of Nowra NSW, on Nerriga-Nowra Rd. , 19.i.71, woodlands, S. Misko & K. Pullen (2 ♁, ANIC) ; 35.30S 150.18E Kioloa SF, 15km NE Batemans Bay , NSW Jan. 87 M. G. Robinson flight interc. Trap (1 ♀, ANIC) ; Stockard Home, Combined St., Wingham NSW 23.xii.90 S. Watkins // S.G. Watkins Collection Donated 2001 // 233 (1 ♀, ANIC) ; 34.24S 150.50E Mt Keira scout camp, NSW c. 320m 4-5 Mar. 1981 Lawrence & Calder (1 ♀, ANIC) ; Narrara N.S.W, Oct 1936, F.E. Wilson // F. E. Wilson Collection // COL-65641 (1 ♁, NMV) ; Narara N.S.W, 27-11-46 AB (3 ♁, NMV) ; Australia, NSW, 5km nw Wollombi (sw Cessnock ) 4.12.1991 leg. R. Gerstmeier (10 ♁, 3 ♀, RGCM) ; Australia, NSW, 15km sw Cessnock , 4.12.1990 leg. R. Gerstmeier (4 ♁, 3 ♀, RGCM) ; Australia, NSW, 12km sw Bulga 7.12.1990 leg. M. Baehr (1 ♀, RGCM) . Queensland. SEQ: 27°27′ Sx 152°55′E Enoggera Reservoir site3, 4Nov 1999 Rainforest Monteith. Burwell. pyreth. On hoop pines. 7921 (1 ♀, QM) ; SEQ: 25°27′ Sx 151°23′E Gurgeena Plat. Rainforest 10 Oct-19 Dec 1998 G.Monteith & C.Gough intercept. 360m 7513 (1 ♀, QM) ; Queensland // Coll. E.W. Janson (1 ♀, MNHN) . Unknown locality. 2926 // Notoxus congruus , New. —BM // Museum Paris Coll. Gorham 1914 (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Darling Riv. // Museum Paris Coll. Castelnau Coll. Sedillot 1935 (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Museum Paris Coll. Castelnau Coll. Sedillot 1935 (1 ♁, MNHN) ; Australie CH. French // Determin S. Schenkling // Oplio variipes Chevr. (1 ♁, IRSNB) ; Bayswater (1 ♁, NMV) ; [illegible—W Yalok ?] 14-1-06 // 2652 (1 ♁, NMV) ; [no data] (1 ♁, NMV) .

Diagnosis. Pronotum rounded laterally, disc without obvious punctation; elytra dark with orange fasciate and apical maculations, humeral maculae absent, punctation with nodules ( Fig. 12 ), 8 th stria absent anterior to fascia (beginning within it), striae terminating within, or just after, fascia, males with setal mat covering striae 1–4 within fascia; femora yellow basally, pale brown apically (much paler than elytra), tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads. Similar to N. brevistriatus sp. nov., though easily differentiated from it by having internally nodulate punctation and the outer striae extending beyond elytral fascia.

Description. Habitus: Fig. 171 . Total length: 10.5–16.7 mm (lectotype 11.2 mm). Head: Vertex, frons, genae and submentum blackish, clypeus and supra-antennal elevations reddish-brown, anteclypeus transparent yellow/ orange, antennae, labrum and palpi orange-brown; eyes separated by 0.53–0.75 eye widths (lectotype 0.66); vertex and frons mostly smooth with only occasional small seta-associated punctations, surface even, not sulcate; genae and submentum wrinkled; exterior margins of terminal palpomeres about 2.3 times (maxillae) and 2.7 times (labium) the length of inside edges; antennae reaching base of pronotum; eyes and most of cranium vested with erect pale setae, frons with slightly shorter medially-directed setae. Prothorax: Blackish-brown, venter, pronotal collar and arch paler more reddish or brownish; pronotum 1.26–1.35 times longer than wide (lectotype 1.32), sides round, widest at middle; subapical depression deeply v-shaped, disc with deep central sulcus (sulcus smooth, more open than linear) and obscure lateral sulci, surface smooth, almost impunctate; moderately distributed with long erect setae and shorter finer multi-directional setae. Pterothorax: Ventrites brown to reddish-brown, vested with short pale and occasional long setae; elytra dark reddish-brown with orange markings (each elytron with a large apical macula and a transverse fascia which is broadest at the suture); length to width ratio 2.79–3.15:1 (lectotype 2.91); mostly 9-striate (8 th stria begins within transverse fascia), all stria terminating well before apex (1–3 or 4 within fascia or near, 4 or 5–10 just posterior of fascia), punctation with nodules (most visible within fascia at striae 4–10), very large and complete anterior to fascia, smaller with posterior edge indistinct posterior to fascia, interstriae smooth, epipleurae extending into apical curve, interstriae with very fine short semi-reclinate setae (often>1 per puncture) and longer thicker erect setae (<1 per puncture), intrafoveal setae short (many setae rubbed from lectotype), males with a dense mat of short pale posteriorly directed decumbent setae covering striae 1–4 from just posterior of to just anterior to fascia; hindwing with CuA 3+4 and CuA 1 cross-veins absent. Legs: Profemora pale brown, basal half of meso- and metafemora yellow, apical half pale brown, tibiae and tarsi pale brown, ventral tarsal pads paler; profemora very slightly swollen, other femora slender. Abdomen: Ventrites orange. Male genitalia: Tegmen ( Fig. 56 ) moderately slender, middle sinuate, parameroid lobes conspicuously expanded laterally, the latter apically subdigitiform, dorsal sinus long, about one-third tegmen length, slightly narrowed at its half-length, terminally curved, ventral sinus shallow, about three-eighths the length of dorsal sinus, tegminal arms gradually meeting apodeme, apodeme a little less than quarter tegmen length; median lobe as in Fig. 93 ; pygidium as in Fig. 128 .

Variation. Colour of some specimens closer to black than brown; brown area of meso- and metafemora sometimes less than half of femoral length (possibly females only).

Biology. In southeast Queensland Notopilo variipes has been collected in a flight intercept trap in rainforest at Gurgeena Plateau and by pyrethrum spraying Hoop Pines at Enoggera Reservoir; in New South Wales it was collected using flight intercept traps at Kioloa State Forest . Collection data indicates that adults are active from October to March.

Distribution (Map 3). Throughout Victoria and New South Wales into south-east Queensland.

Unplaced to species group

Remarks. The following four species cannot be assigned to any of the five Notopilo species groups defined above, and we have not identified synapomorphies on which to base further species groups to which they may be assigned. All four species have CuA 3+4 and CuA 1 cross-veins complete.

Figures

FIGURES 12–26. (12) Notopilo variipes elytra, detail showing foveate punctures with conspicuous lateral nodules; (13) Notopilo congruus elytra, detail showing foveate punctures without lateral nodules; (14) Ancyropilus monteithi elytra, detail showing densely setose intervals; (15) Infectostriatus absentis (paratype) elytra, eighth & ninth elytral stria absent; (16) Notopilo obesus (holotype) elytra, eighth & ninth elytral stria intact; (17) Platynotum bulli (paratype), flat pronotal disc (lateral view); (18) Culcipternotus mareebensis (paratype) tarsus, with four ventral pads; (19) Notopilo reduncus tarsus, with three ventral pads; (20) Olesterus australis eye, finely-facetted; (21) Notopilo confusus eye, coarsely-facetted; (22) Monilonotum pascoei elytra, detail showing intrafoveal seta apparently absent; (23) Ancyropilus brigalowae (paratype) elytra, detail showing short intrafoveal seta; (24) Platynotum foveosetosa (holotype) elytra, detail showing very long intrafoveal seta; (25) Notopilo reduncus elytra, showing puncture rows (striae) terminating before apex; (26) Platynotum femorale elytra, showing elytral puncture rows terminating mostly near apex.

FIGURES 48–65. Tegmina, dorsal: (48–51) Notopilo, cambageicola species group—(48) Notopilo cambageicola, paratype; (49) Notopilo interfabulatus, paratype; (50) Notopilo lawnhillensis, paratype; (51) Notopilo tanybasilaris, holotype; (52) Notopilo congruus (congruus species group); (53) Notopilo reduncus (reduncus species group); (54–56) Notopilo, variipes species group—(54) Notopilo brevistriatus, paratype; (55) Notopilo gerstmeieri, holotype; (56) Notopilo variipes; (57–60) Notopilo, unplaced to species group—(57) Notopilo confusus, holotype; (58) Notopilo elstoni, holotype; (59) Notopilo katherinensis, holotype; (60) Notopilo obesus, paratype; (61) Platynotum bulli, paratype; (62) Platynotum culgoense, holotype; (63) Platynotum femorale; (64) Platynotum foveosetosa, holotype; (65) Platynotum gracile, holotype (scale bars: 0.5 mm).

FIGURES 66–101. Median lobes: (66) Ancyropilus brigalowae, paratype; (67) Ancyropilus emmotti, holotype; (68) Ancyropilus exossuarius, paratype; (69) Ancyropilus monteithi, holotype; (70) Ancyropilus noonbahensis, holotype; (71) Ancyropilus packsaddlensis, holotype; (72) Ancyropilus simplex, paratype; (73) Ancyropilus tricolor, holotype; (74) Ancyropilus hornensis, paratype; (75) Culcipternotus mareebensis, paratype; (76) Infectostriatus absentis, holotype; (77) Infectostriatus differens, holotype; (78) Monilonotum bunyense, paratype; (79) Monilonotum pascoei; (80) Monilonotum sundholmi, paratype; (81–85) Notopilo, beswickensis species group—(81) Notopilo beswickensis, holotype; (82) Notopilo calicis, paratype; (83) Notopilo tompricensis, holotype; (84) Notopilo xanthoimprocerus, paratype; (85) Notopilo xanthoprolatus, holotype; (86–88) Notopilo, cambageicola species group—(86) Notopilo cambageicola, paratype; (87) Notopilo interfabulatus, paratype; (88) Notopilo tanybasilaris, paratype; (89) Notopilo congruus (congruus species group); (90) Notopilo reduncus (reduncus species group); (91–93) Notopilo, variipes species group—(91) Notopilo brevistriatus, paratype; (92) Notopilo gerstmeieri, holotype; (93) Notopilo variipes; (94–96) Notopilo, unplaced to species group—(94) Notopilo elstoni, holotype; (95) Notopilo katherinensis, holotype; (96) Notopilo obesus, paratype; (97) Platynotum bulli, paratype; (98) Platynotum culgoense, holotype; (99) Platynotum femorale; (100) Platynotum foveosetosa, holotype; (101) Platynotum gracile, holotype (scale bars: 0.5 mm).

FIGURES 102–137. Male pygidiae: (102) Ancyropilus brigalowae, paratype; (103) Ancyropilus emmotti, holotype; (104) Ancyropilus exossuarius, paratype; (105) Ancyropilus monteithi, holotype; (106) Ancyropilus noonbahensis, holotype; (107) Ancyropilus packsaddlensis, holotype; (108) Ancyropilus simplex, paratype; (109) Ancyropilus tricolor, paratype; (110) Ancyropilus hornensis, paratype; (111) Culcipternotus mareebensis, paratype; (112) Infectostriatus absentis, holotype; (113) Monilonotum doddi; (114) Monilonotum pascoei; (115) Monilonotum sundholmi, paratype; (116–120) Notopilo, beswickensis species group—(116) Notopilo beswickensis, holotype; (117) Notopilo calicis, paratype; (118) Notopilo tompricensis, holotype; (119) Notopilo xanthoimprocerus, paratype; (120) Notopilo xanthoprolatus, holotype; (121–124) Notopilo, cambageicola species group—(121) Notopilo cambageicola, paratype; (122) Notopilo interfabulatus, paratype; (123) Notopilo lawnhillensis, paratype; (124) Notopilo tanybasilaris, holotype; (125) Notopilo congruus (congruus species group); (126–128) Notopilo, variipes species group—(126) Notopilo brevistriatus, paratype; (127) Notopilo gerstmeieri, holotype; (128) Notopilo variipes; (129–132) Notopilo, unplaced to species group—(129) Notopilo confusus, holotype; (130) Notopilo elstoni, holotype; (131) Notopilo katherinensis, holotype; (132) Notopilo obesus, paratype; (133) Platynotum bulli, paratype; (134) Platynotum culgoense, holotype; (135) Platynotum femorale; (136) Platynotum foveosetosa, holotype; (137) Platynotum gracile, holotype (scale bars: 0.5 mm).

FIGURES 162–173. Habitus: (162–165) Notopilo, cambageicola species group—(162) Notopilo cambageicola, paratype; (163) Notopilo interfabulatus, holotype; (164) Notopilo lawnhillensis, holotype; (165) Notopilo tanybasilaris, paratype; (166) Notopilo congruus (congruus species group), lectotype (of Opilo congruus); (167–168) Notopilo, reduncus species group—(167) Notopilo magnus, holotype; (168) Notopilo reduncus, paralectotype (of Opilo abdominalis Schenkling); (169–171) Notopilo, variipes species group—(169) Notopilo brevistriatus, paratype; (170) Notopilo gerstmeieri, paratype; (171) Notopilo variipes; (172–173) Notopilo, unplaced to species group—(172) Notopilo confusus, specimen from Western Australia; (173) Notopilo elstoni, holotype (scale bars: 1.0 mm).

FIGURES 181–185. (181) labels of the syntype specimen designated as the lectotype of Opilo congruus Newman (NHML); (182) labels of the syntype (holotype label invalid) specimen designated as the paralectotype of Opilo abdominalis Schenkling (IRSNB); (183) labels of the syntype specimen designated as the lectotype of Opilo variipes Chevrolat (MNHN); (184) labels of the syntype specimens designated as the lectotype of Opilo femoralis Westwood; (185) Westwood’s original Opilo femoralis syntype series (NHML) (a) O. femoralis lectotype, (b) smaller, non-conspecific, specimens representing a new species, Notopilo confusus sp. nov..