Selenophorus striatopunctatus Putzeys

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 : 82-83

Selenophorus striatopunctatus Putzeys Figs 58, 59 A–C, 60, 61

Selenophorus striatopunctatus Putzeys, 1878a: 33. SYNTYPES (5) in the Putzeys Collection (IRSB), and (5) in the Chaudoir-Oberthür Collection (MNHP). IRSB specimens as follows. 1, male [[indecipherable writing] VII.44 [green paper] // Putzeys Collection label// Type//; 2, male, Chiapas/ 5.7.58 Putzeys Collection label// Type//; 3, Costarico [green paper]// Putzeys Collection label// Type//; 4, male, St. Doming [green paper]// Putzeys Collection label// Type//.- Amblygnathus puncticollis Putz./Emd. det, 1937//.- 5, male, Mex / 3.7.44// Putzeys Collection label// Type// [specimen a Pelmatellus sp.]; LECTOTYPE (here selected), specimen #2, above. MNHP specimens as follows. Box label striatopunctatus / Chaud./ Antilles. 1, male, labelled Rep. Dominginie/ Sallé // 293// 2, 402//; 3, male, labelled Mexique// A. Deyrolle//; 4, female, unlabelled; 5, female, labelled Mexique/.- Csiki 1932: 1201.- Darlington 1934: 104.- Blackwelder 1944: 50.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 441.- Bennett and Alam 1985: 20.- Ball 1992: 85.- Lorenz 1998: 356.- Peck and Thomas 1998: 22.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Peck 2005: 33.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 80.- Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 15.- Peck 2009: 13.- Bousquet 2012: 1147.

Hemisopalus vigilans Casey, 1914: 137. LECTOTYPE (here selected) male, labelled Fla// CASEY/ bequest/ 1925// TYPE USNM/ 47869 [red paper]// vigilans / Csy// (USNM).- Peck and Thomas (1998: 22).- Bousquet 2012: 1147.

Hemisopalus depressulus Casey, 1914: 137. LECTOTYPE selected by Lindroth (1975: 141) male, labelled Fla// Casey/ bequest/ 1925// TYPE USNM/ 47867 [red paper]// depressulus / Csy [handwritten] (USNM); (synonymy established by Peck and Thomas (1998: 22).- Csiki 1932: 1199.- Ball and Maddsion 1987: 206.- Lorenz 1998: 355.- Lorenz 2005: 377.- Bousquet 2012: 1147.

Type area.

State of Chiapas, Mexico.

Diagnosis.

This species is readily separated from the other Selenophorus species by the punctate elytral striae.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 58. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae with antennomere 1 testaceous to rufo-testaceous, antennomeres 2-11 darker; mouthparts infuscated or not, testaceous to rufo-testaceous; legs testaceous to dark rufo-testaceous. Head and pronotum brunneous to brunneo-piceous; elytra brunneo-piceous to nearly piceous, suture and apical margin diffusely paler. Ventral surface rufo-brunneous to brunneo-piceous; elytral epipleuron paler than disc. Pronotum with faint bluish metallic luster; elytra with faint to moderate iridescence; ventral surface faintly iridescent. Head shiny, with mesh pattern isodiametric, microlines very fine; pronotum shiny, with mesh pattern slightly transverse, sculpticells about 1.5 –2× wide as long, microlines very fine; elytra very shiny, microlines not visible at 100 ×. Pronotum with posteriolateral impressions punctate; hind angles rounded. Elytral striae punctate, in addition to the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Elytral intervals finely punctate. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Fig. 59 A–C. Apical portion of phallic median lobe short, broad, apex symmetrically rounded in dorsal and ventral aspects; endophallus with 17 spines with large bases scattered throughout entire length; without lamina. Ventral surface of shaft smooth.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Fig. 60. Gonocoxite 2 (gc2) moderately thick, slightly falcate. Bursa copulatrix (bc) markedly long; spermatheca (sp) moderately long, coiled, sausage-like, originating near base of common oviduct (co); markedly long spermathecal gland duct (spgd) originating above base of spermatheca. Spermathecal gland (spg) somewhat dumbbell-like, narrowed in the middle.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 61. This wide-ranging species is found on most of the island groups in the West Indies, with the exception of the islands located between the Greater Antillean Puerto Rico and Lesser Antillean Guadeloupe.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

The range of this species overlaps the ranges of most Selenophorus species. Relationships of S. striatopunctatus are not postulated beyond species group membership.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 803 specimens (398 males, 405 females). See Appendix for details.