Austrocyphon setifer, Zwick, Peter, 2013

Zwick, Peter, 2013, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon, Zootaxa 3706 (1), pp. 1-74 : 62

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3706.1.1
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scientific name	Austrocyphon setifer
status	sp. n.

Treatment

Austrocyphon setifer , sp. n.

( Figs. 204–208 View FIGURES 204 – 213 )

Type material. Holotype ♂, paratype 1 ♂: Acacia Plateau N.S.W. J.Armstrong / Cyphon fenestratus Id. by J.Armstrong ( ANIC).

Habitus. BL 2.4–2.5 mm, BL/BW 1.5. Contour regularly oval. Dark brown, with yellowish marks: labrum, base of antennae, legs, periphery of pronotum (in the middle dark pigment reaches the front margin), and a round spot near suture behind basal third of elytral length. Small marks next to scutellum and on shoulder less obvious.

Male. T 8 with an anteriorly protruding lappet between the long straight apodemes. T 8 is caudally narrowed, margin semicircularly notched, a pair of strong socketed spines on either side, no other pilosity or microtrichia. S 8 a small boomerang-shaped structure with some small setae near the ends.

T 9 also caudally narrowed and with a semicircular notch but bare. Apodemes with enlarged front ends. S 9 oval, with mushroom-shaped darker pattern; no pilosity noticed.

Pala shorter and narrower than distal portion of penis. Distal frame narrow, not flanged, foramen much larger than conical trigonium with narrow centema; no apical spicules.

Tegmen with short anteriorly truncate capulus, parameres outwardly curved slender struts with small subterminal hooklet.

Female. Unknown.

Notes. There were altogether 8 specimens on a single card, 4 of them females which were not studied. The other two males were Austrocyphon pictus .

Etymology. The Latin noun setifer describes somebody carrying setae.

Figures

FIGURES 204 – 213. Austrocyphon setifer sp. n. (204 – 208) and A. tropicus sp. n. (209 – 213), males. 204, T 8 and S 8; 205, T 9; 206, S 9; 207, penis; 208, tegmen and parameres. Figs. 204 – 208 to the same scale. 209, T 8 and S 8; 210, T 9; 211, S 9; 212, tegmen and parameres; 213, penis, dorsal view. Figs. 209 – 212 to the same scale.