Renda leprieuri
Creators: name: Márquez, Juan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Renda
Renda leprieuri

description: Renda leprieuri (Laporte, 1835)   
Fig. 5  
 Sterculia leprieuri Laporte, 1835: 118; Herman, 2001: 3745 (Plochionocerus); Asiain et al., 2007: 7 (Renda).   
 Sterculia holtzi Bernhauer, 1907: 284; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 315 (Sterculia, synonym of leprieuri).   
 Type material. Type material of Sterculia leprieuri Laporte not located (described from “Cayenne” = French Guiana). Holotype of Plochionocerus holtzi, male: “Britisch Guayana / leprieuri (the remaining data not visible) / holtzi Brnh. Typus / holtzi ” (FMNH).   
 Additional material (7 specimens). “ FRENCH GUIANA: Les Eaux Claires, 3-XI-1995, A. Berkov ” (1♂, AMNH). “ Cayenne ” (1♂, 1♀, IRSNB). “ GUYANA: Region 8, Iwokrama Forest, Turtle Mt. Base camp., 50 m, 4°40´19”N, 58°4´14”W, 30-V–1-VI-2001, R. Brooks, Z. Falin, GUY1BF01 098, ex: flight intercept trap (1♀, SEMC). “Amer. Mer., no locality data” (1♀, IRSNB). “ SURINAM: Brocopondo Brownsberg Nature Reserve, Mazaroni Falls Traihead, 450 m, 4°56´55”N, 55°10´53”W, 24-VI-1999, H. Hiwat, SUR1F99 103B, ex: roadside vegetation” (1♂, SEMC). “ Tito Sn. Vicente en Delluus ” (1♀, IRSNB).   
 Redescription. Total length 15.8–17.3 mm. Body metallic green to blue, elytra metallic brown and antennae, mouthparts and legs reddish brown.   
 Head. Elongate, posteriorly narrowed (Fig. 16); 1.48x as long as wide; dorsal surface clearly convex; ventral surface slightly convex; with very dense umbilicate punctures on dorsal surface; ventral surface with few umbilicate punctures separated by more than 3x their width (Fig. 22); temple with superior temporal carina and a narrow, slightly to moderately deep concave area (Fig. 31); eyes 0.27x as long as head, interocular distance 0.60x cephalic width; first antennomere 1.78x length of antennomeres 2–3 combined, apical antennomere longer (1.1x) than antennomeres 9–10 combined; labrum with two central teeth longer than two lateral teeth (Fig. 55); mandibles with external channel; apical maxillary palpomere conically elongate (Fig. 39), 1.6x as long as preapical palpomere; apical labial palpomere slightly widened and flattened toward apex (Fig. 44), nearly twice as long as preapical palpomere.   
 Thorax. Pronotum 1.6x as long as wide; as wide as head; with moderately dense fine punctures, except for wide longitudinal impunctate area and with a clearly visible depressed area at each side of posterior third (Fig. 51). Elytra as long as pronotum, with dense, long and pale setae transversally distributed on the anterior fourth (fascia; Fig. 5). Prosternum and mesosternum with slightly dense, pale, long setae, these setae dense on lateral and posterior areas of metasternum.   
 Abdomen. Completely covered by long, pale setae combined with short, brown setae.   
 Aedeagus. Ovally elongate; total length 2.5 mm; with parameres 0.51x length of median lobe, apical area of median lobe 0.45x as long as total length of median lobe and internal sac with sclerotized structures (Fig. 75).   
 Variation. The metallic color of body can be green to blue. The superior carina on the temple of the head varies from clearly visible to slightly visible and concave area can be slightly to moderately deep.   
 Comparison. This species can be confused with R. fulgida, R. simplicephala, R. cyanea and R. fasciata. It can be distinguished from them by the elongate head, the superior temporal carina on the temple of the head, the absence of a lower carinate line on the lateral margins of the head and the aedeagus with long parameres. While the remaining species have an oval or ovally elongate head, temple convex or with superior and inferior temporal carinae, and parameres shorter than those in R. leprieuri.   
 Remarks. It was not possible to study any type specimens of Sterculia leprieuri Laporte, 1835, but the holotype of Sterculia holtzi Bernhauer, 1907 (junior synonym proposed by Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914) was used to establish the probable identity of R. leprieuri. This species was recently transferred from Plochionocerus to Renda by Asiain et al. (2007).   
 Geographic distribution. French Guiana, Guyana (Herman, 2001) and Surinam (first national record).
description: Published as part of Márquez, Juan, 2010, Revision of the genus Renda Blackwelder, 1952 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xantholinini) 2686, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2686 (1) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2686.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10095335