Neodiachipteryx cariniger (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 : 22-23

Neodiachipteryx cariniger (Putzeys) Figs 9A, 10A, 11 A–C, 12, 13

Selenophorus cariniger Putzeys, 1878a: 44. Three specimens, Chaudoir-Oberthür Collection (MNHP), in front of the following box label: careniger/ Chaud// Rep. Dominic/ Sallé //. LECTOTYPE male, (here selected), labelled: Ex. Musaeo/ Chaudoir// Type// LECTO// TYPE// Ball det. '72//.- Csiki 1932: 1196.- Blackwelder 1944: 49.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 440.

Selenophorus carniger Darlington, 1934: 103 (misspelling).

Neodiachipteryx cariniger ; Noonan 1985a: 42.- Ball 1992: 84, 85.- Lorenz 1998: 356.- Lorenz 2005: 378.- Perez-Gelabert 2008: 79.

Type area.

The Dominican Republic, the Spanish part of the Greater Antillean island of Hispaniola.

Diagnosis.

This species is readily separated from N. davidsoni by a combination of: labrum with anterior margin shallowly concave, not notched, and elytral intervals 3-5 flat at the apex of the elytra.

Descriptive notes.

Data for SBL in Table 1. Habitus as in Fig. 9A. Clypeus and labrum with anterior margin of each shallowly concave. Antennae, mouthparts and legs rufo-testaceous to rufo-brunneous; legs bicolored, with femora darker than remainder of leg. Dorsal and ventral surfaces rufo-brunneous to dark brunneous; dorsal surface with greenish blue metallic luster. Head, pronotum and elytra shiny, microlines not visible at 100 ×. Labrum with mesh pattern slightly transverse, sculpticells about 1.5 –2× wide as long. Pronotum with posteriolateral angles rounded; posteriolateral impression impunctate. Elytral striae impunctate, except the standard setigerous punctures in striae 2, 5 and 7. Elytral interval 2 slightly convex at elytral apex; intervals 3-5 flat at elytral apex (Fig. 10A). The membranous hind wings are folded, not reduced in length. Males with two terminal setae and females with four terminal setae near the posterior margin on sternum VII.

Male genitalia. Fig. 11 A–C. Apical portion of phallic median lobe markedly reduced, tip obliquely truncate in ventro/dorsal aspects; endophallus with one small darkened microtrichial field, right lateral ventral aspect; without lamina.

Ovipositor and female reproductive tract. Fig. 12. Gonocoxite 2 (gc2) falcate with moderately wide base. Bursa copulatrix (bc) quite long; small kidney-shaped spermatheca 1 (sp1) originating at base of common oviduct (co); subapical duct from spermatheca 1 connects to ducts of spermatheca 2 and spermathecal gland. Spermatheca 2 (sp2) with long duct, apical portion inflated. Both spermatheca 1 and spermatheca 2 the same in transparency of issue. Spermathecal gland (spg) with quite long duct, gland sausage-like.

Geographical distribution.

Fig. 13. This species is known only from the Greater Antillean island of Hispaniola.

Chorological affinities and relationships.

Both this species and its putative adelphotaxon, N. davidsoni , new species, are recorded from Hispaniola, but their known ranges do not overlap.

Material examined.

In addition to type material, we have seen a total of 8 specimens (6 males, 2 females). See Appendix for details.