Notopilo tanybasilaris 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 tanybasilaris

description: Notopilo tanybasilaris sp. nov.
ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 2B94F695-58FC-4F7E-9AE0-609E1CFC8806
(Figs 51, 88, 124, 165; Map 4)
HOLOTYPE ♁: Queensland: QLD: 24°49′ Sx 149°45′E Brigalow Res.Stn. site 2. 12Oct2001 scrub/briga. Burwell. Monteith. 170m pry.trunks, logs.10209 (QM, type reg. T258553). PARATYPES (4): Queensland: same data as holotype (1, QM); QLD: 24°49′ Sx 149°45′E Brigalow Res.Stn. site 2. 13Oct2001 Pyrethrum Monteith.Burwell. 170m brigalow trunks 10222 (1, QM); QLD: 24°32′ Sx 150°36′E Mt Scoria. 200m. 23Mar2001. vine scrub GB Monteith. Pyrethrum-trunks&logs. 10055 (1 ♁, QM); CQ: 22°16′Sx147°16′E Mazeppa NP, S end. 240m 18 Dec 2000. 9885 GB Monteith. Brigalow Pyrethrum-trunks &logs (1, QM).
Diagnosis. Pronotal sides curvate, disc extremely smooth with isolated punctures; central impression short; tumescent areas either side of central impression indistinct; elytra dark with orange maculae (each elytron with a transverse band posterior to middle plus an apical macula meeting external and sutural margins); punctures with conspicuous lateral nodules; 8 th stria beginning near base; outer striae reaching apical macula; femora yellow and black or black-brown; tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads.
Notopilo tanybasilaris sp. nov. is superficially similar to Notopilo cambageicola sp. nov., N. lawnhillensis sp. nov. and N. confusus sp. nov. It differs from N. cambageicola sp. nov. by the absence of humeral maculae, from N. lawnhillensis sp. nov. by its more elongate elytra and shorter ventral sinus of the tegmen and from N. confusus sp. nov. by its more rotund pronotum and the outer striae of its elytra reaching the apical maculae.
Description. Habitus: Fig. 165. Total length: 6.7–9.1 mm (holotype, 9.1 mm). Head: Vertex and frons black, clypeus and supra-antennal elevations reddish-black, anteclypeus semi-transparent orange, labrum, antennae and palpi orange to orange-brown; eyes separated by about 0.6–0.7 eye widths (holotype, 0.65); vertex smooth or punctate behind eyes, frons with punctures connected by wrinkles, clypeus with isolated punctures; genae and submentum wrinkled; exterior margins of terminal palpomeres about 1.3 times (maxillae) and 2 times (labium) the length of inside edges; antennae reaching close to base of pronotum; eyes and cranium with long and short pale erect setae, frons with shorter medially-directed setae. Prothorax: Rotund in appearance, black; pronotum about 1.21–1.26 times longer than wide (holotype, 1.21), sides curvate, middle wider than pronotal arch; subapical depression deeply v-shaped; central impression short, not sharply defined; disc mostly nitid with small, shallow, isolated punctures; preapical tumescence weak; lateral impression inconspicuous; disc with short multi-directional, and long erect, setae. Pterothorax: Ventrites black or brown, with fine mostly posteriorly-directed setae; elytra black or dark brown with orange markings (each elytron with a broad transverse fascia just behind the elytral mid-length—its anterior and posterior margins either parallel or diverging towards suture—plus an apical macula meeting the external and sutural margins), length to width ratio 2.65–2.88:1 (holotype, 2.79:1); 8 th stria beginning near base, between 1 st and 3 rd puncture of 7 th stria; punctation circular, with conspicuous lateral nodules (nodules can make some punctures appear slightly elongate rather than circular), large in basal half then reduced to about half that diameter posterior of fascia; interstriae with single rows of long and short erect or semi-erect setae, intrafoveal setae shorter than half puncture diameter in basal punctures, occasionally longer than diameter of smaller apical punctures; epipleurae extending into apical maculae; hindwing with CuA 3+4 and CuA 1 cross-veins complete, MP 3+4 absent basad of CuA 1 crossvein. Legs: Approximately basal three-fifths of profemora and two-fifths of meso- and metafemora yellow, remaining apical parts of femora black to black-brown; tibiae and tarsi brown, tibial carinae darker; ventral tarsal pads yellowish; profemora slightly more swollen than other femora. Abdomen: Ventrites orange. Male genitalia: Tegmen (Fig. 51) only slightly narrowed between middle and robust parameroid lobes, apices tapered to short inwardly-directed digitiform processes, dorsal sinus about one-third tegmen length, inner margins abruptly expanded before inner limit, ventral sinus about one-third as long as dorsal sinus, apodeme about one-third tegmen length; median lobe as in Fig. 88; pygidium as in Fig. 124.
Etymology. The specific epithet tanybasilaris (from Greek ‘tanyo’ meaning stretched out, and Neo-Latin ‘basilaris’ at the base) refers to the elongate shape of the immaculate region of the elytra between the base and anterior margin of the transverse fascia.
Biology. This species has been collected in October, December and March by spraying brigalow trunks and logs with pyrethrum.
Distribution (Map 4). Notopilo tanybasilaris sp. nov. is known only from three localities within the brigalow belt of central Queensland.
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 pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7441294