Selenophorus flavilabris cubanus 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 : 65

Selenophorus flavilabris cubanus Darlington Figs 39B, 46

Selenophorus flavilabris cubanus Darlington, 1935b: 203. HOLOTYPE male and 35 PARATYPES: Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba (various dates and collectors) (MCZC).- Blackwelder 1944: 49.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.- Ball 1992: 84, 85.- Ball and Shpeley 1992: 96.- Peck 2005: 32.

Selenophorus cubanus ; Ball 1992: 84, 85.- Ball and Shpeley 1992: 96.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 376.- Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 14.

Type locality.

Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba.

Diagnosis.

This subspecies is readily separated from other species of the opalinus species group on a combination of: small size, entire dorsal surface with faint to moderate metallic reflection and legs unicolorous.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 39B. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae, mouthparts and legs testaceous to rufo-testaceous. Dorsal and ventral surfaces rufo-brunneous to dark brunneous, not quite rufo-piceous. Dorsally with metallic blue and green reflections, not as bright as in S. f. ubancus , elytra additionally with faint iridescence; ventrally with very faint iridescence. Head, pronotum and elytra shiny, without microlines visible at 100 ×. Pronotum with posteriolateral angles rounded; posteriolateral impressions impunctate. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Intervals with fine micro-punctures. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Very similar to S. flavilabris ubancus , Figs 42 D–F. For details, see this topic for S. flavilabris ubancus , below.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Very similar to S. flavilabris ubancus , Fig. 44A. For details, see this topic for S. flavilabris ubancus , below.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 46. This subspecies is known only from Greater Antillean Cuba and Andros Island in the Bahamas.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The three subspecies of S. flavilabris are allopatric in distribution. The range of this subspecies is overlapped in the opalinus species group by the range of S. fabricii . Additionally, both this subspecies and S. propinquus are recorded from Andros Island in the Bahamas. Relationships of S. flavilabris cubanus are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 71 specimens (41 males, 30 females). See Appendix for details.