Pinodytes orca Peck &amp; Cook 2011, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Pinodytes
Pinodytes orca

description: <i>Pinodytes orca</i> Peck &amp; Cook, new species (Figs. 40, 359–367) Type material. <b>Holotype:</b> male (SBPC). <b>UNITED STATES. Oregon:</b> Josephine Co., ORCA Nat. Mon., Oregon Cave, 4000–4200’, 42.098N 123.406W, 28.I–27.II.1993, Ron Reed &amp; J. Roth, (at entrance), #3 pitfall trap, cheesebaited, past connecting tunnel end, moist soil (at base of flowstone), dark zone. <b>Paratype</b> (1). <b>UNITED STATES. Oregon:</b> same data except 27.III–1.V.1993, male (SBPC). <b>Material examined</b>. We have examined 2 specimens. <b>Distribution.</b> Specimens (Fig. 359) are known only from Josephine County, in southwestern Oregon. <b>Diagnostic description</b>. Total length 4.20 mm; greatest width 1.76 mm. Dark reddish brown; flattened and elongate in shape (Fig. 40). <b>Head</b>. Finely, sparsely punctate; vertex with reticulate microsculpture. Eyes absent. Antenna (Fig. 360) elongate; antennomere 2 shorter than 3; antennomere 5 larger than 4 and 6; antennomere 7 clearly larger than 8; antennomeres 9 and 10 lack visible sensory vesicles. <b>Pronotum</b>. Punctures large, dense, separated by less than one to two diameters; microsculpture weak, reticulate. Widest at base; sides somewhat explanate, parallel in basal one-third, then narrowing to apex; apical margin emarginate, basal margin straight; apical angles rounded, basal angles nearly rectangular. <b>Elytra</b>. Punctures moderately large, irregularly spaced; surface weakly rugose, with punctures joined by curved transverse strioles. Elytra explanate laterally; sides parallel in basal one-half, then narrowing to apex; each elytron with a sublateral punctate stria. <b>Legs</b>. Protibia (Fig. 361) widening to broad apex; dense fine spines on apical two-thirds of inner margin; outer margin with two or three short spines and two larger spines at apex. Mesotibia (Fig. 363) with basal three-fifths narrow, weakly sinuate; apical two-fifths broad with elongate fine spines laterally; outer margin and apex with strong spines. Metatibia (Fig. 364) elongate, narrow, straight; apical one-half and apex spinose. Metafemur (Fig. 364) slender. Male protarsomeres (Figs. 361, 362) dilated; protarsomere 1 about as long as 2–4 combined; with elongate setae laterally and two rows of thin, colorless, stalked, concave-faced phanerae ventrally. Mesotarsomeres without phanerae. <b>Venter</b>. Mesoventrite (Fig. 367) carinate; longitudinal carina irregularly serrate, setose, with excavation behind transverse carina. <b>Male genitalia</b>. Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 365, 366) weakly sinuate in dorsal view, with rounded apex; in lateral view, strongly dorsoventrally curved at basal one-fourth, with flattened apex. Inverted internal sac (Fig. 366) with elongate, curved sclerite. Parameres (Figs. 365, 366) slender, not reaching apex of median lobe; each with two apical setae. Female unknown. <b>Notes</b>. Although the species is known only from specimens taken in a cave, the species should not be considered to be a cave adapted species. It is instead a soil species which was taken in a cave, and we consider this to be a secondary habitat. The first author spent a week in May, 2003, trying to take additional material in the cave and in adjacent forests, without success. <b>Etymology.</b> The name <i>orca</i> is derived from an acronym of the name of the type locality, Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon.
description: Published as part of <i>Peck, Stewart B. &amp; Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 3077 (1)</i> on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243536