Copris sallei Harold

Kohlmann, Bert & Delgado, Enio Cano And Leonardo, 2003, New species and records of Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) from Central America, Zootaxa 167, pp. 1-16 : 6-11

Copris sallei Harold ( Figs. 3, 4 )

Copris sallei Harold, 1869: 496 ­497, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, sér. 4, IX.

Copris sallei Harold : Bates, 1887; Matthews, 1959, 1961; Matthews and Halffter, 1968.

Redescription. Male ( Figs. 3, 4 ): Total length: 17.4 mm. Width: 9.1 mm.

Head armed with heavy horn, regularly curved backwards. Clypeus bidentate, the teeth remote and evident, with shallow, median notch. Posterior angles of genae acute. Upper surface of head closely punctate except for base and area between the eyes, which are smooth. Antennae dark brown.

Pronotum armed. Anterolateral angles acute with point of angle made salient by an inward curve of lateral margin immediately behind it, the margin curving out again at origin of lateral carina. Lateral carina sharp. Anterior margin of pronotum not forming a median point or angle. Median longitudinal sulcus present only on disc proper, impressed, umbilico­punctate; the field of punctures broadening anteriorly. Punctation of pronotum as follows: base and disc shining, impunctate except for dorsal sulcus and submargin, which are umbilico­punctate; entire submargin, lateral fossae, depressions between prominences, and medium anterior face strongly umbilico­punctate; simple punctures on lateral prominences. Anterior prosternal margin with median tooth; sternellum sparsely and shallowly punctate. Lateral carina sharp. Lateral prominences laminate, their dorsal edges pointing upwards in lateral view, outward in dorsal view. Median prominences like two small diverging teeth pointing upward in lateral view, and with a broad and gibbous base.

Elytra with 8th stria complete; 9th arising at about anterior third of elytral length; 10th complete. Striae closely and distinctly punctate, the punctures transverse, separated by a distance about equal their width. Interstriae slightly convex, impunctate.

Pygidium moderately umbilico­punctate, completely margined.

Anterior legs with ventral surface of femur with coarse setigerous punctures on posterior longitudinal two thirds, finely punctate over rest of surface. Protibial apical spur linear and only slightly curved inwards and downwards at apex, tapering to a blunt point. Middle legs with a coxa that has a few umbilical punctures on middle of outer face. Ventral surface of femur with many coarse setigerous punctures distally and along the posterior margin, fine punctures over the rest of the surface. Posterior legs with ventral surface of femur as described for middle legs.

Female. Total length: 15.8 mm. Width: 9.3 mm. Differs from the male by the following characters: Head with a slightly raised horn, wider than long, apex excavated posterodorsally. Clypeal margin with teeth more extended and rounded, with an open medial notch. Antennae dark­brown. Pronotum armed with a faintly developed central carina and two lateral tubercles behind declivity, carina wavelike, emarginated at middle. Pronotal disc and area near the base and posterior angles impunctate, remaining punctures umbilicate. Median longitudinal sulcus impressed and umbilico­punctate. Anterior angles forming a small tooth. Anterolateral regions of metasternal lobe umbilico­punctate.

Examined material (1 male, 1 female). MEXICO. Ve ra c ru z. Catemaco. Pipiapan. Parque de la flora y fauna silvestre tropical. 600m. 31­IV­1990. Selva alta perennifolia. F. Capistrán col., CTP­90 1 male, 1 female.

Remarks. For comparative purposes, we redescribe and illustrate a major male of C. sallei . Matthews and Halffter (1968) presented a short description of the male, but did not illustrate it.

Distribution. Matthews and Halffter (1968) recorded this species from Veracruz to Chiapas, Mexico. The species inhabits a broad range of habitats ranging from humid tropical forest to cloud and pine­oak forest between 600 to 2100m elevation.

Figures

FIGURE. 4. Lateral views of head and pronotum of Copris caliginosus Kohlmann, Cano and Delgado, sp. nov. (holotype, top), Copris nubilosus Kohlmann, Cano and Delgado, sp. nov. (holotype, middle) and Copris sallei (bottom).