Alloraphes magnus Franz

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2013, Revision of the Neotropical genus Alloraphes Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 3750 (5), pp. 549-568 : 567-568

Alloraphes magnus Franz

( Figs. 12 , 26 , 67 , 68 )

Alloraphes magnus Franz, 1980a: 215 .

Type material. Holotype: Brazil (São Paulo): ♀, three labels ( Fig. 67 ): "Barueri, Sao Paulo / Brasij [sic!], lg. K. Lenko" with "No 10" on reverse side [white, printed; reverse handwritten in blue ink]; " Alloraphes / magnus / m. / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed]; " Holotypus " [red, handwritten] (NHMW).

Remarks. Alloraphes magnus is known from a single female collected in the southern part of Brazil ( Fig. 68 j). It differs from all species of Alloraphes in the pronotum without even traces of lateral marginal carinae or edges, different shape of the mesoventral intercoxal process and the presence of an additional median carina within the asetose impressions of mesoventrite ( Fig. 26 ). All other characters agree with those of Alloraphes , but basing only on a single female specimen it is not possible to clarify the taxonomic placement of this interesting and unusually large (BL 1.25 mm) species. Examination of males and their genital characters may help solving this problem. Currently A. magnus should be treated as a species inquirenda, genus incertae sedis within Cyrtoscydmini , but certainly close to Alloraphes .

Figures

FIGURE 68. Distribution of Alloraphes: a, A. jamaicae Franz; b, A. chiapasensis Franz; c, A. yucatani Franz; d, A. lenkoi Franz; e, A. peruanus Franz; f, A. dentatus sp. n.; g, A. peckorum sp. n.; h, A. myrmecophilus Franz stat. rest.; i, A. bolivarensis Franz; j,? Alloraphes magnus Franz.

FIGURES 1 – 12. Dorsal (1 – 9, 11 – 12) and laterodorsal (10) habitus of Alloraphes Franz. Alloraphes jamaicae Franz, holotype male (1); A. chiapasensis Franz, holotype male (2); A. yucatani Franz, holotype male (3); A. lenkoi Franz, paratype male (4) and paratype female (5); A. peruanus Franz, holotype male (6) and paratype female (7; but see the Remarks section in the redescription); A. dentatus sp. n., holotype male (8); A. peckorum sp. n., holotype male (9 – 10); A. myrmecophilus Franz, stat. rest., paratype male (11);? Alloraphes magnus Franz, holotype female (12).

FIGURES 22 – 26. Alloraphes jamaicae Franz, holotype male (22 – 24); A. myrmecophilus Franz stat. rest., paratype male (25);? Alloraphes magnus Franz, holotype female (26). Head in ventral view (22); prothorax in ventral view (23); pterothorax in ventral view (24); body venter (25); and mesothorax in ventral view (26). Abbreviations: aest 2, mesanepisternum; aest 3, metanepisternum; ai, asetose impression; amc, anterior marginal carina of mesocoxal cavity; ar, anterior ridge; bst, basisternal part of prosternum; bst, basistipes; cd, cardo; cx, coxa; el, elytron; epm 3, metepimeron; fo, foramen occipitale; gal, galea; gp, gular plate; gs, gular suture; hr, hypostomal ridge; hy, hypomeron; hyr, hypomeral ridge; lac, lacinia; lp, labial palp; lss, lateral suture of submentum; mc, median carina of mesoventrite; mcp, mesocoxal projection; md, mandible; mn, mentum; mscc, mesocoxal cavity; mscs, mesocoxal socket; msff, mesofurcal fovea; mst, mesostipes; msvp, mesoventral intercoxal process; mtap, metaventral anterior process; mtfa, metafurcal arm; mtvp, metaventral intercoxal process; mxp, maxillary palp; nss, pronotosternal suture; occ, occipital constriction; pcc, procoxal cavity; pcs, procoxal socket; pff, profurcal fovea; pl, posterior lobe of mesocoxal projection; pre, prepectus; ppf, palpifer; psp, prosternal process; submentum; tm, temple; v 3, metaventrite

FIGURES 61 – 67. Original sets of labels pinned under historical type specimens. Alloraphes jamaicae Franz, holotype (61); A. chiapasensis Franz, holotype (62); A. yucatani Franz, holotype (63); A. lenkoi Franz, paratype (64); A. peruanus Franz, holotype (65); A. myrmecophilus Franz, stat. rest., paratype (66);? Alloraphes magnus Franz, holotype (67).