Symmela jatahyensis Frey 1973
Creators: name: Pacheco, Thaynara L.
name: Wipfler, Benedict
name: Monné, Marcela L.
name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Symmela
Symmela jatahyensis

description: Symmela jatahyensis Frey, 1973
(Figures 15, 29 (c), 30(n), 32(e))
Symmela (Symmela) jatahyensis Frey, 1973: 323 (original description, key); Evans 2003: 48; Evans and Smith 2005: 30, 2007: 30, 2009: 31 (checklist)
Type material examined
Holotype. ♂ ‘ Brasilien Jatahy / Symmela jatahyensis Type Mos./ Typus’ (ZMHB).
Redescription
Length: 5 mm. Elytral length: 3 mm. Width: 2.5 mm. Head blackish brown, shiny, with erect, sparse setae. Labroclypeus as wide as frons, rectangular; surface flat; plain, without an anterior concavity on each side; anterior margin straight, not elevated, without a rim of setae behind anterior margin; lateral margin not incised anteriorly; punctation of surface posteriorly dense; suture between labrum and clypeus invisible. Smooth area in front of eye distinctly separated from frons by a suture. Frons anteriorly flat, punctation irregular, dense. Ocular canthus without terminal setae, ratio of length of ocular canthus/eye diameter: 1/3. Eyes evenly spherical, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.48. Antenna with eight antennomeres. Antennal club with three antennomeres, blackish, straight; width of antennal lamella equal to width of antennomeres of funiculus; apical lamella subequal to basal and median ones; length ratio of antennal club vs remaining antennomeres combined: 1/1.5; length ratio of third vs fourth antennomere: 1/2; fourth antennomere without lateral projection; length ratio of fifth vs fourth antennomere: 1/5. Labrum anteriorly bluntly angled on each side, concave at middle. Setae on mentum moderately dense.
Head and pronotum without copper iridescent shine. Pronotum unicoloured, iridescent, reddish brown; widest at middle, width distinctly narrower compared to width of elytral base at humerus; anterior marginal line not interrupted medially, posterior marginal line absent; lateral margin not serrated, generally bent at middle, otherwise straight, behind anterior angles straight, posteriorly straight; setae of lateral margin sparse; basal margin evenly curved; transverse impression beside basal margin absent; anterior angles produced, sharply pointed; antero-lateral and postero-lateral angles not flattened dorsoventrally; posterior angles blunt; surface without median longitudinal impression, transversal furrows or setae; punctation on disc moderately dense, simple and fine, without well-defined impunctate areas. Scutellum without punctures.
Elytra bicoloured, yellowish brown in major part, margins blackish; surface opaque, without setae and microsculpture; striae and intervals distinct; punctation between striae sparse, diameter of punctures compared to those of striae equal; intervals flat; posterior edge convex; apical margin chitinous, without microtrichomes.
Abdomen: sternites flat in sagittal plane; lateral carina absent; first visible ventrite with row of setae on posterior edge; second visible ventrite with row of setae in medial region; basal ventrites medially of same length as laterally; ultimate and penultimate apical ventrites simple and flat; apical ventrite long (1.5 times as long as preceding ventrite); penultimate apical ventrite as well as ultimate one with longer and denser setae; beside row of setae, densely setose. Pygidium strongly convex.
Legs yellow. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.3. Metacoxa entirely plain, without elevated lateral longitudinal carina; without longer lateral bristles and setae on basal surface, posterior margin glabrous. Metafemur with posterior margin straight. Metatibia widest at middle; ratio of width/length: 1/2.35; dorsal margin not carinated, smooth; interior surface with dense and long setae; median longitudinal punctation present on interior surface; interior margin of apex weakly and shallowly truncate towards ventral margin; punctation on entire lateral face present; beside dorsal margin without a row of robust setae along entire length; basal group of spines reduced to a single robust spine; distal groups of spines disposed at two-thirds of metatibia length; ventral margin not serrated. Dorsal surface of tarsi glabrous, with dense punctures. Length ratio of dorsal tibial spur/first metatarsomere: 1/1.5. Metatarsi at apex weakly widened; first tarsomere straight, its length subequal to second and third tarsomeres combined; laterally not carinate; ventral margin serrated; ventral margin glabrous; medial face glabrous. Protibia with two indistinct teeth; spur curved interiorly. First protarsomere straight, its length subequal to second and third combined; width ratio of first protarsomere vs second protarsomere: ca. 2/1; second protarsomere narrow, but bent; third and fourth protarsomere elongate and narrow (distinctly longer than wide); fifth protarsomere circular in cross section, a little shorter than third and fourth protarsomere combined. Protarsal claws asymmetrical, shape of inner protarsal claw bifid, apex of basal tooth of inner protarsal claw convex.
Aedeagus: Figure 15 (d,e).
Female unknown.
Remarks
The species was labelled by Moser, but not actually described. Frey (1973) published the name, being thus the author of the species.
description: Published as part of Pacheco, Thaynara L., Wipfler, Benedict, Monné, Marcela L. & Ahrens, Dirk, 2022, The genus Symmela Erichson, 1835 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini): taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis, pp. 607-705 in Journal of Natural History 56 (9 - 12) on pages 653-656, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2084649, http://zenodo.org/record/7012522