Selenophorus parumpunctatus Dejean

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 : 79-81

Selenophorus parumpunctatus Dejean Figs 54B, 55 D–F, 56, 57

Carabus sinuatus Gyllenhal [in Schönherr], 1806: 203 [primary junior homonym of Carabus sinuatus Gmelin, 1790].

Selenophorus sinuatus Dejean, 1829: 106.- Gemminger and Harold 1868: 266.- Putzeys 1878a: 27.- Csiki 1932: 1201.- Darlington 1934: 105.- Blackwelder 1944: 50.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 441.- Ball 1992: 85.- Lorenz 1998: 356.- Peck and Thomas 1998: 22.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Peck 2005: 32.- Peck 2006: 17.- Ivie et al. 2008: 238.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 80.- Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 15.- Peck 2011: 13.- Bousquet 2012: 1145.

Selenophorus parumpunctatus Dejean, 1829: 104. TYPE MATERIAL: 2 specimens, in Chaudoir-Oberthür Collection (MNHP), in front of the following box label: sinuatus/ Schonh/ Antilles/ C. Dejean// LECTOTYPE l (here selected) labelled [female]// parumpunctatus m [green paper]//.- Gemminger and Harold 1868: 266.- Gundlach 1894: 293.- Csiki 1932: 1200.- Blackwelder 1944: 50.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.- Lorenz 1998: 356.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Bousquet 2012: 1145.

Selenophorus excisus LeConte, 1878: 377. [Primary junior homonym of S. excisus Putzeys, 1878a: 59]. LECTOTYPE female here selected, labelled: Fla// Type/ 5918 [red paper] // S. excisus / LeC [handwritten]// [MCZC, LeConte Collection]. Synonymy established by Ball, in Bousquet 2012: 1145.- Csiki 1932: 1199. - Lorenz 1998: 355. - Lorenz 2005: 377. - Bousquet 2012: 1145.

Selenophorus mustus Casey, 1914: 152. LECTOTYPE [selected by Lindroth 1975: 141]: female, labelled Biscayne/ Fla// Casey/ bequest/ 1925// TYPE USNM/ 47889 [red paper]// mustus / Csy [handwritten]// (USNM).- Casey 1918: 413 [junior synonym of S. excisus LeConte 1878].- Csiki 1932: 1199.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Peck and Thomas 1998: 22.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Bousquet 2012: 1145.

Type area.

Dejean was uncertain if his specimens of S. parumpunctatus were American or West Indian. The type area is restricted here to the island of Hispaniola.

Diagnosis.

Readily distinguished from S. obtusoides by a combination of: slightly larger size, the rounded posteriolateral angles of the pronotum and setigerous punctures of striae 2, 5 and 7 less foveate.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 54B. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae with 1-3 basal antennomeres testaceous, antennomeres 4-11 darker; palpi infuscated, rufous to brunneous, tips testaceous; legs testaceous to rufous. Dorsal surface brunneous to brunneo-piceous with very faint brassy luster; ventral surface paler, rufous to brunneous; elytral epipleuron paler than disc. Head with mesh pattern isodiametric; pronotum with mesh pattern slightly transverse, sculpticells about 2 × wide as long; elytra with mesh pattern transverse, sculpticells about 3 –4× wide as long. Pronotum with posteriolateral impressions impunctate. 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. 55 D–F. Apical portion of phallic median lobe moderately long, triangular, symmetrically rounded in dorsal/ventral aspect, with medial longitudinal bulge dorsally, slightly so ventrally; endophallus with four to eight spines with large bases; without lamina; ostium anopic.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Fig. 56. Gonocoxite 2 (gc2) moderately thick, slightly falcate. Bursa copulatrix (bc) moderately long, recurved; long spermatheca (sp) originating near base of common oviduct (co), without distinctive narrowing basally; markedly long spermathecal gland duct (spgd) originating above base of spermatheca. Spermathecal gland (spg) very small, bulbous, with moderately large swelling of duct basad gland.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 57. This wide-ranging species is found on most of the island groups in the West Indies.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The West Indian range of this widely distributed species overlaps the range of S. obtusoides . Relationships of S. parumpunctatus are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 9,864 specimens (4,637 males, 5,222 females, 5 unknown). See Appendix for details.