Caccoleptus lamarrei, Herrmann, Háva & Kadej, 2015

Herrmann, Andreas, Háva, Jiří & Kadej, Marcin, 2015, New Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Peru., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 67-74 : 68

Caccoleptus lamarrei sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 a-d)

Type material. Holotype (Male) labelled: “ Peru, Loreto, rio Ucayali , Jenaro, 145 km SW Iquitos, P16:terra firMe. Vitre 9, 4°54’S- 73°40’W, 100 M, 26.VII.2011, G. LaMarre” ( MUSM). 1 Paratype (sex unknown) labelled: “ Peru, Loreto, rio Nanay, Porvenir , 45 kM W Iquitos, white sand forest, V2 , 3°54’S- 73°33’W, 100 M, 20.VI.2011, G. LaMarre” ( AHEC) [The Paratype missed the whole middle left leg as well as the right elytron. No genitalia was found inside the body, so probably it got lost together with the right elytron. It probably is a male too because of the similar form of the antenna, compared with the Holotype]; 1 male: Peru, Loreto, 20 km from Ucayali on R. Calleria, Colonia Calleria, 1961, B. Malkin leg. ( JHAC).

Description.

Male habitus as in Fig. 1a . Measurements (in mm): TL 2.8, PL 0.7, PW 1.9, EL 2.4, EW 2.2. Dorsal integument black, pubescence blackish brown and white. Ventral integument also black except the abdominal segments, pubescence darkish. Head dense and coarsely punctated, with brown integument covered by long, suberected brown hairs. Palpi light brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large with distinctly visible long microseta. Antennae light brown, 11-segmented, with 4-segmented antennal club ( Fig. 1b ). Pronotum with black integument and long dark pubescence; similar but less densely punctated as in the head. Recumbent white hairs are intermixed towards the lateral margins. Elytra with black integument and long suberected dark hairs. Some white recumbent hairs are intermixed and build three very indistinct transverse fasciae: two of them just before and just behind the middle, and the third near the apical part, furthermore a very blurred spot at the apex and also beneath the scutellum. Punctuation of the elytra nearly as dense as in the head, but less coarsely. Epipleuron black with white recumbent pubescence. Abdominal segments densely and coarsely punctated, light brown, with light brown recumbent pubescence ( Fig. 1c ). Legs light brown with short recumbent white setae, the edges of the tibiae with a row of brown spines each. Aedeagus as in Fig. 1d .

Female so far unknown.

Differential diagnosis.

The new species very visually similar to C. honeymanni Beal, 1979 , but differs from it by structure of antennae and male genitalia.

Etymology.

Friendly dedicated to Dr. Greg Lamarre, researcher at INRA-Guyane, UMR EcoFog, at Kourou. G. Lamarre devoted his dissertation to the ecology of herbivorous insects, comparing the entomofauna of several platforms along the Amazone river near Iquitos and upstream at Jenaro-Herrera along the Ucayaly river.

Figures

Figs. 1a-d.- Caccoleptus lamarrei sp. nov. (holotypus, male). a.- Habitus. b.- Antenna. c.- Abdomen. d.- Genitalia.