Notopilo calicis Bartlett & Lambkin 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bartlett, Justin S.
name: Lambkin, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Notopilo
Notopilo calicis

description: Notopilo calicis sp. nov.
ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 25D3465F-A18A-4668-B521-2B0F1772E237
(Figs 44, 82, 117, 157; Map 3)
HOLOTYPE (sex unknown): Western Australia: WA: Weelhamby Lake, west MO11-SAP. wet pitfalls, 29°11′24″S 116°27′08″E (GPS) 15 Sept 1998 – 18 Oct 1999 P. Van Heurck, CALM Survey (WAM E88393). PARATYPE (1): Western Australia: same data as holotype (1 ♁, WAM E88394).
Diagnosis. Anterior part of pronotum notably wider than middle, disc densely punctate; elytra dark with orange humeral, fasciate and apical maculations, punctation with nodules, 8 th stria beginning near humeral macula, at least striae 2–9 reaching apical maculae; femora yellow basally, brown apically, tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads.
Description. Habitus: Fig. 157. Total length: 8.1–8.2 mm (holotype 8.2 mm). Head: Cranium black, clypeus and supra-antennal elevation with subtle dark brown hue, anteclypeus, labrum, palpi and antennae orange to orangebrown; eyes separated by 1.83–1.91 eye widths (holotype 1.91); vertex and frons with dense network of irregularshaped punctures, frons weakly impressed at narrowest part, clypeus mostly smooth with a few punctures near hypostomal suture; genae wrinkled, submentum smooth; ratio of exterior to interior edges of terminal palpomeres about 1.5:1 (maxillae) and 2:1 (labium); antennae reaching near base of pronotum; eyes and most of cranium vested with erect pale setae, frons with shorter medially-directed setae. Prothorax: predominantly black, pronotal arch and basal margin of pronotal collar with subtle dark reddish-brown hue; pronotum 1.06–1.12 times longer than wide (holotype 1.06), sides rounded, anterior part wider than middle; subapical depression v-shaped, terminating in a shallow non-sulcate central depression; disc extremely dense with small seta-associated punctations, a slender smooth longitudinal strip behind central impression; short fine multi-directional setae and long erect setae. Pterothorax: Ventrites black to deep reddish-black; metaventrite punctate with setae directed posteriorly to posteromedially; elytra dark brown (to blackish-brown) with orange markings (each elytron with a roundish apical macula barely meeting the outside margin, a transverse fascia which is widest laterally, narrowed toward suture and rounded before the suture, plus a squarish to angulate humeral macula); length to width ratio 2.92–2.95:1 (holotype 2.92); 8 th stria beginning near humeral macula, most striae ending near apex, striae 1 and 10 weakening before other striae, punctation with small lateral nodules (easily visible on fascia at 30X magnification), punctation posterior of fascia slightly smaller than basal punctures (resulting in appearing more widely spaced), epipleurae extending into apical maculae; interstriae with infrequent erect setae and more frequent finer posteriorly-directed semi-decumbent setae, intrafoveal setae spanning entire puncture diameter. Legs: Femora yellow basally and brown apically (apical third of profemora, apical third to a quarter of meso- and metafemora), tibiae and tarsi brown, ventral tarsal pads yellowish; profemora only slightly thicker than other femora. Abdomen: Ventrites brown. Male genitalia: Tegmen (Fig. 44) gradually widening towards very broad parameroid lobes, dorsal sinus narrow, about one-third tegminal length, parallel internally, apical half gradually opening out, ventral sinus about three-quarters as long as dorsal sinus, apodeme about one-fifth tegmen length; median lobe as in Fig. 82; pygidium as in Fig. 117.
Etymology. The specific epithet calicis (Latin ‘calix’ meaning cup or goblet) refers to the pronotum which, being broadest at its anterior margin appears goblet-shaped when viewed from above.
Biology. Whether the collection of the type series from pitfall traps indicates a ground-dwelling biology is unknown.
Distribution (Map 3). Western Australia: Mid West (Weelhamby Lake).
description: Published as part of Bartlett, Justin S. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2022, Australian Opilonini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) part I: A revised taxonomy for Australian Opilo Latreille including descriptions of new genera and species, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 5220 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7441294