Glyptolenoides Perrault, 1991

Traces, Pierre Moret, 2024, Description of new Platynini from the montane cloud forest of Ecuador, with a redefinition of the genera Glyptolenus Bates and Glyptolenoides Perrault (Coleoptera, Carabidae), Faunitaxys 12 (63), pp. 1-23 : 19

Glyptolenoides Perrault, 1991

Glyptolenoides Perrault, 1991: 47 .

Glyptolenoides Perrault : Moret, 1999: 292; Deuve, 2019: 51; Moret & Murienne, 2020: 9.

Type species: Colpodes azureus Chaudoir, 1859 , by original designation ( Perrault, 1991: 47).

Diagnosis. – Submentum quadrisetose. Sides of pronotum sinuate basally; insertion of the basolateral seta of pronotum close to the angle, in a buttonhole-shaped depression. Pro- and mesotibiae dorsally canaliculate, or sulcate, or flattened. Apical lobes of PT4 and MST4 with long and spatuliform hyaline phanera; apex of MTT4 with a pair of non-modified dorsolateral setae and one or two ventroapical thin hyaline setae. MTT1 as long as MTT2+MTT3 ( Fig. 14a and 15d). Ventral face of MTT1–4 with two parallel rows of setae. Apex of MTT4 emarginate, with small triangular ventral lobes (most species), or bilobed, with two long and subequal ventral lobes ( G. balli Moret, 2005 ). MTT1–3 asymmetrical, outer side obliquely truncate at apex, so that the outer apical dorsolateral seta is displaced further back than the inner dorsolateral seta ( Fig. 14 b-c and 15d). Male genitalia diorchid; part of the base of the median lobe and base of the parameres melanistic ( Fig. 15c and 16b). Bursa copulatrix with or without lumenal microtrichia; spermatheca vermiform or claviform, slightly arcuate, fused with the basal duct which is not differentiated by a smaller diameter and a different orientation ( Fig. 9 f-g).

This diagnosis does not take in consideration the subgenus Cuevadytes Deuve, 2019 , a Peruvian cave-dwelling taxon that exhibits several autapomorphies, most of which are related to its subterranean habitat. However, the female genitalic morphology of Cuevadytes fully corresponds to Glyptolenoides . At the current state of our knowledge, the described species that can be surely assigned to Glyptolenoides s. str. are G. azureus ( Chaudoir, 1859) , G. balli Moret, 2005 , G. purpuripennis ( Chaudoir, 1878) , and the two following new species.