Selenophorus nonseriatus Darlington

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 60

Selenophorus nonseriatus Darlington Figs 35C, 36 D–F, 37C, 38

Selenophorus nonseriatus Darlington, 1934: 109. HOLOTYPE male: San Francisco Mts., Santo Domingo, Sept. 14, A. Busck (USNM). 2 female PARATYPES, same as holotype. One male PARATYPE: Claremont, Jamaica, March 14 (AMNH).- Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.- Ball 1992: 85.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Peck 2005: 32.- Peck 2006: 176.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 80.

Type locality.

San Francisco Mountains, Elias Pinas Province, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola.

Diagnosis.

This species is most like S. iviei , from which it can be readily separated by a combination of: elytral striae wider preapically than on elytral disc and pronotum unicolorous, without paler lateral margins.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 35C. Antennae and mouthparts rufo-testaceous to slightly darker; legs testaceous to rufo-testaceous. Dorsal surface rufo-brunneous to brunneo-piceous. Ventral surface rufo-brunneous to brunneo-piceous, elytral epipleuron paler. Elytra moderately iridescent, ventral surface with less iridescence. Head, pronotum and elytra shiny, without microlines visible at 100 ×. Pronotum with posteriolateral impressions impunctate; without basal bead; posteriolateral angles obtuse. Elytral intervals slightly convex on disc. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Fig. 36 D–F. Very similar to those of S. iviei , apical portion of phallic median lobe short, narrowly rounded, symmetrically rounded in ventral/dorsal aspects; endophallus with two darkened microtrichial fields, nearly the length of the median lobe, left dorsal markedly long, medial ventral slightly shorter; without lamina.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Fig. 37C. Gonocoxite 2 somewhat falcate, moderately wide base. Bursa copulatrix moderately long, recurved; markedly long spermatheca (sp) originating near base of common oviduct; melanized spermathecal basal sclerite (sbs) present, about one fifth as long as spermatheca; long spermathecal gland duct originating above mid-length of spermatheca apicad of spermathecal basal sclerite. Spermathecal gland (spg) small, bulbous, with slight swelling of duct basad gland.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 38. This species is known from the Greater Antillean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica and the Lesser Antillean islands of Dominica, St. Vincent and Grenada.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The range of this species overlaps the ranges of the other two species in the nonseriatus species group. Relationships of S. nonseriatus are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 180 specimens (99 males, 76 females, 5 unknown). See Appendix for details.