Arsipoda agalma Samuelson 1973
Creators: name: Samuelson, Allan
name: Biondi, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Arsipoda
Arsipoda agalma

description: Arsipoda agalma Samuelson, 1973
Figs 1A, 4A, 8 A–B, 11A, 14A
Arsipoda agalma Samuelson, 1973: 128.
Arsipoda agalma – Gómez-Zurita et al. 2010: 2560.
Type material examined
NEW CALEDONIA: holotype ♂, Mt Panié, [- 20,58860164,77020], 500–1000 m, 11 Oct. 1967, J. & M. Sedlacek leg. (BPBM).
New material
NEW CALEDONIA: 1 specimen, Col d’Amieu (3.0 km to gate), -21.58536 165.79319, 500 m, 16 Nov. 2008, M. Wanat (MNHW); 2 specimens, Parc des Grandes Fougères, N of Pic Vincent, -21.5962 165.77650, 650 m, at night, 5 Nov. 2010, M. Wanat & R. Ruta leg. (MNHW); 1 specimen, Haute Rivière Bleue, 22°05' S 166°38' E, 180–330 m, track to La Tranchée, 22–23 Jan. 2004, M. Wanat leg. (MNHW); 1 specimen, ditto, La Tranchée-Sentier des Kaoris, 22°05' S 166°38' E, 280–330 m, humid forest, 28 Jan. 2004, M. Wanat leg. (MNHW); 1 specimen, Riviere Bleue Parc, 1 km E of scient. Refuge, 22°05.9' S 166°39.2' E, 185 m, humid forest, 22 Dec. 2006, R. Dobosz & M. Wanat leg. (USMB); 1 specimen, Mt Panié, E trail, -20.5886 164.7702, 1350–1629 m, rainforest, 24 Nov. 2010, M. Wanat & R. Ruta leg. (MNHW).
Taxonomic notes
Arsipoda agalma is quite different from the other species, mainly for the deep and elongate frontal grooves, generally continued to post-antennal region, and the weakly convex pronotum, with very large and strongly impressed punctures on disc (Fig. 4A). Median lobe of aedeagus variable (Figs 8 A–B): in ventral view laterally generally parallel, or slightly narrower in apical third, with a thin median groove; apex from triangular to strongly pointed; in lateral view median lobe from thin to rather thickset, moderately curved; dorsal ligula elongate – from basal fourth to almost the apex of median lobe of aedeagus – wide, but thinner in apical part. Spermatheca (Fig. 11A) with rounded basal part; collum elongate, about twice the apical part; ductus thin, with straight and elongate proximal part.
Biometry
Male (n = 6; mean and standard deviation; range): LE = 2.17 ± 0.22 mm (1.95 Ĺ LE Ĺ 2.55 mm); WE = 1.41 ± 0.14 mm (1.28 Ĺ WE Ĺ 1.65 mm); LP = 0.60 ± 0.05 mm (0.53 Ĺ LP Ĺ 0.68 mm); WP = 1.06 ± 0.10 mm (0.98 Ĺ WP Ĺ 1.24 mm); LAN = 2.08 ± 0.18 mm (1.80 Ĺ LAN Ĺ 2.28 mm); LAED = 1.16 ± 0.08 mm (1.07 Ĺ LAED Ĺ 1.27 mm); LB = 3.02 ± 0.29 mm (2.75 Ĺ LB Ĺ 3.50 mm); LE/LP = 3.60 ± 0.16 (3.39 Ĺ LE/LP Ĺ 3.78); WE/WP = 1.32 ± 0.01 (1.31 Ĺ WE/WP Ĺ 1.34); WP/LP = 1.77 ± 0.08 (1.67 Ĺ WP/ LP Ĺ 1.86); WE/LE = 0.65 ± 0.01 (0.63 Ĺ WE/LE Ĺ 0.66); LAN/LB = 0.68 ± 0.06 (0.61 Ĺ LAN/LB Ĺ 0.75); LE/LAED = 1.89 ± 0.09 (1.79 Ĺ LE/LAED Ĺ 2.01).
Female (n = 5; mean and standard deviation; range): LE = 2.34 ± 0.19 mm (2.18 Ĺ LE Ĺ 2.65 mm); WE = 1.57 ± 0.16 mm (1.45 Ĺ WE Ĺ 1.83 mm); LP = 0.63 ± 0.04 mm (0.60 Ĺ LP Ĺ 0.70 mm); WP = 1.15 ± 0.11 mm (1.05 Ĺ WP Ĺ 1.33 mm); LAN = 1.83 ± 0.28 mm (1.53 Ĺ LAN Ĺ 2.23 mm); LSPc = 0.21 ± 0.02 mm (0.20 Ĺ LSPc Ĺ 0.23 mm); LB = 3.16 ± 0.30 mm (2.88 Ĺ LB Ĺ 3.59 mm); LE/LP = 3.72 ± 0.09 (3.62 Ĺ LE/LP Ĺ 3.80); WE/WP = 1.36 ± 0.02 (1.33 Ĺ WE/WP Ĺ 1.38); WP/LP = 1.82 ± 0.09 (1.72 Ĺ WP/ LP Ĺ 1.92); WE/LE = 0.67 ± 0.02 (0.64 Ĺ WE/LE Ĺ 0.69); LAN/LB = 0.58 ± 0.04 (0.52 Ĺ LAN/LB Ĺ 0.62); LE/LSPc = 10.93 ± 0.61 (10.24 Ĺ LE/LSPc Ĺ 11.62).
Distribution
Northern, Central and Southern Grande Terre (Fig. 14A).
Ecological notes
Collected in humid forest and rainforest, from 180 m to over 1350 a.s.l. No information is available about host plants. Pollen found in the gut of some specimens.
description: Published as part of Samuelson, Allan & Biondi, Maurizio, 2016, Taxonomic revision of the genus Arsipoda Erichson, 1842 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in New Caledonia, pp. 1-61 in European Journal of Taxonomy 230 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.230, http://zenodo.org/record/3840408