Stenomorpha granicollis (Blaisdell) Blaisdell, 2011

Smith, Aaron D., Miller, Kelly B. & Wheeler, Quentin D., 2011, A new species of Stenomorpha Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Asidini) from Cuatrociénegas, Mexico with a key to the furcata species group, Zootaxa 2909, pp. 27-37 : 33-34

Stenomorpha granicollis (Blaisdell) , new combination

( Figs. 2 , 6 , 11 )

Asida (Stethasida) granicollis Blaisdell 1923:256 Stethasida granicollis (Blaisdell) . Papp 1961: 29.

Type material. HOLOTYPE, by original designation, (sex undetermined) locality label: a) “Guaymas Mex., April 14 1921, E P Van Duzee Collector” ( CASC). California Academy of Sciences type No. 1165.

Additional material examined. (10 specimens). MEXICO: Sonora.

Diagnosis. Stenomorpha granicollis is easily distinguished from other members of the furcata group by its impunctate and tuberculate pronotum and its acute and somewhat prolonged posterolateral pronotal apices.

Remarks. Blaisdell (1923) originally described S. granicollis in the genus Asida and used Casey’s genus Stethasida as a subgenus. The species is not mentioned again until Papp (1961) lists it as species of Stethasida . All known specimens have been collected within a small area in western Sonora around Guayamas.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Distribution of furcata group species. Stars () = Stenomorpha granicollis, circle () = Stenomorpha roosevelti, squares () = Stenomorpha wickhami, and triangles () = Stenomorpha furcata ..

FIGURES 1 – 4. Dorsal habitus of the Stenomorpha furcata species-group: 1) Stenomorpha furcata (male); 2) Stenomorpha granicollis (male); 3) Stenomorpha wickhami (male); 4) Stenomorpha roosevelti (holotype).

FIGURES 5 – 8. Lateral view of the Stenomorpha furcata species-group: 5) Stenomorpha furcata (male); 6) Stenomorpha granicollis (male); 7) Stenomorpha wickhami (male); 8) Stenomorpha roosevelti (holotype).