Adendrocera carmelita Roza, Hansen, and Ferreira 2024, new species
Creators: name: Roza, André Silva
name: Hansen, Aslak Kappel
name: Ferreira, Vinicius S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Phengodidae
Adendrocera
Adendrocera carmelita

description: Adendrocera carmelita Roza, Hansen, and Ferreira, new species
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(Figs. 2A–H, 3A–G, 4A, B)
Type Locality. Puerto Arturo, Carmelita, Maya Biosphere Reserve, San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala.
Etymology. The new species is named after the Carmelita community, which through the Cooperativa Carmelita (https://turismocooperativacarmelita. com/en/carmelita-cooperative) helps to conserve the biodiversity around the species’ type locality in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. This is done through minimal-intervention agroforestry and tourism activities that give the community a livelihood, while also providing an incentive to protect the natural forest.
Diagnosis. Body overall brown to dark brown, head dark brown with posterior region yellowish, antennomeres I–III light brown, IV–XI brown, pronotum dark brown, elytra and legs brown, abdomen dark brown with tergites VII–X yellowish. Eye small, not protruding, occupying close to one-fourth of head width in dorsal view, length of postocular area about 1.5× length of the eye in lateral view, eye posterior margin straight. Antennomere I slightly longer than II, II around 2× longer than III, IV 3× longer than III, subequal to subsequent antennomeres until X. Pronotum distinctly longer than wide. Elytron around 5× longer than wide.
Description, Male. Measurements. Total length: 3.50 mm.Head length: 0.56 mm.Head width: 0.41 mm. Pronotum length: 0.49 mm. Pronotum maximum width: 0.38 mm. Elytron length: 1.00 mm. Elytron maximum width: 0.22 mm. Morphology. Head slightly longer than wide, integument glossy, shagreened, finely punctured, eye small and not protruding, occupying about one-fourth of head width in dorsal view (Fig. 2C), length of postocular area about 1.5× eye length in lateral view, eye posterior margin straight (Fig. 2D); Antennomere I slightly longer than II, II around 2× longer than III, IV 3× longer than III, subequal to subsequent antennomeres until X (Fig. 2G). Pronotum distinctly longer than wide, integument glossy, shagreened, finely punctured, anterior margin slightly rounded, lateral margins subparallel, posterior margin medially pointed (Fig. 2C). Elytron with dense setigerous punctures, 5× longer than wide (Fig. 2A). Hind wings with venation as noted in the genus description (Fig. 1G). Abdomen and aedeagus as noted in the genus description (Figs. 3A–G). Coloration. Body overall brown to dark brown, head dark brown with posterior region yellowish, antennomeres I–III light brown, IV–XI brown, pronotum dark brown, elytra and legs brown, abdomen dark brown with tergites VII–X yellowish.
Female and Immature Stages. Unknown.
Biology and Distribution. Adendrocera carmelita was collected in lowland tropical rain forest during February, before the end of the dry season, although atypical rainfall had already occurred during the year of collecting. It was collected in a flight intercept trap in a mature part of the lowland rainforest of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (Fig. 4B). The specific site of collection is used only for tourism and is thus conserved; it has high tree species richness and includes huge mahogany trees [Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae)]. Specimens of A. carmelita were never seen alive, so there is no data regarding their biology and habits.
Remarks. The holotype, when stored in alcohol, had a light brown coloration similar to A. flavula. When it was dried to be photographed by VSF, it displayed a dark brown coloration (Figs. 2A, B). The holotype was sent to ASR for examination, but during transport it dried out, which ended up damaging the specimen. It is currently glued to a card and has gained a pale yellow, more-or-less uniform coloration (Fig. 2E). The left antenna is broken, with only nine antennomeres, and the right antenna has only seven antennomeres. The left proleg is missing. Abdominal segments V–X were dissected and stored in a glycerin vial on the same pin as the specimen. Most of the ventral morphology is currently not visible, and the specimen is probably too fragile to undergo remounting in the future (Fig. 2E, but a ventral side photograph is given here: Fig. 2B).
Holotype. GUATEMALA. “AKH-GUA22-3c/ Guatemala: Municipio de San/Andres: Puerto Arturo, 17.5407 / -90.1919, h 200m, 3.II.2022 / flight intercept trap \\ mature rainforest, leg A.K./ Hansen and S.K. Rojas / NHMD 2022-EN-002 \\ Adendrocera carmelita / Roza, Hansen and Ferreira 2023 / Holotype (NHM)”.
description: Published as part of Roza, André Silva, Hansen, Aslak Kappel & Ferreira, Vinicius S., 2024, Redescription of Adendrocera Wittmer, 1976 (Coleoptera: Phengodidae: Penicillophorinae) with Description of a Second Species of the Genus from Guatemala, pp. 155-164 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2) on page 161, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-78.2.155, http://zenodo.org/record/13243835