Sylvanelater Johnson
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
name: Johnson, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Sylvanelater

description: Sylvanelater Johnson, New Genus
Type species. Elater cylindriformis Herbst, 1806, here designated
Description. Body elongate, subparallel, convex. Integument piceous with metallic reflections; finely to moderately punctured, punctures umbilicate on lateral portions of head and pronotum; pubescence moderately long, pallid to cinereous. Head with frons flat to slightly convex; supra-antennal ridge directed medially. Antenna moderately serrate; male antenna long, reaching 2–4 segments beyond apex of pronotal hind angle, female antenna reaching half length of pronotum; segment 3 broadened, subserrate. Pronotum with length 1.1–1.2 X width; disc slightly to moderately convex, with shallow median canaliculation posteriorly; hind angle oblique at apex; dorsal carina absent to weakly defined; basal incisures short, indistinct. Prosternum with anterior lobe extended, length 0.11 X width (female) to 0.33 X width (male), moderately deflexed; intercoxal process slightly arcuate. Hypomeron with mesal margin with narrow, flattened, sparsely punctate bead that becomes a slightly elevated carina near anterior angle; posterior margin slightly emarginate near hind angle. Scutellum subpentagonal, flat dorsally. Mesepimeron narrowly adjacent to coxal cavity. Metaventrite with anterior intercoxal process subtriangular. Elytral striae striatopunctate, shallowly sulcate; intervals flat to slightly convex, punctures moderately sparse, shallow; apex rounded. Aedeagus with median lobe slightly deflexed apically; lateral lobe dentate latero-apically, apex membranous, asetose. Gonocoxites lightly sclerotized; ovipositor rods longer than 0.5 X length of ventrites 1–5; bursa copulatrix expanded, with two saccate colleterial glands, with opaque collar at constriction; spermathecal receptacle saccate, arcuate, wall corrugated and lightly sclerotized; spermatheca short, elongate-saccate; spermathecal reservoir long, tubular; accessory gland duct thick basally, gradually narrowing from spermathecal receptacle. Sexes dimorphic, exceptionally so in S. cylindriformis.
Name derivation. Based on “Sylvanus” the Roman fertility god of forests, groves and wild fields; combined with “ Elater ” from the Greek ελατηρ, meaning a charioteer.
Species included. Sylvanelater cylindriformis (Herbst, 1806) new combination; Sylvanelater furtivus (LeConte, 1853) new combination; Sylvanelater limoniiformis (Horn, 1871), new combination; and Sylvanelater mendax (LeConte, 1853), new combination.
Sylvanelater mendax (LeConte, 1853), New Combination
NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Five Islands Provincial Park, 27.vi.1983, D.S. Davis, NSMC; Lornevale, 3.vi.1995, C. Corkum, old coniferous forest, flight-intercept trap, NSMC; Halifax Co.: Martinique Beach, 9.vi.1993, B. Wright, NSMC; Victoria Co.: Sunday Lake, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 24.vi.1996, R.F. Lauff, NSMC.
Newly recorded from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces as a whole. Found in montane, subalpine, and boreal forests; on spruce (Picea sp.), pine (Pinus sp.), and larch (Larix sp.) (Brooks 1960).
Margaiostus grandicollis (LeConte, 1863)
NOVA SCOTIA: Antigonish Co.: Beaver Mt., 5.v.1997, S.B. McKay, NSNR; Inverness Co.: Bornish Hills, 10–14.vii.1995, G.R. MacPherson, CBU.
Newly recorded from Nova Scotia. In New Brunswick collected in a mature hardwood forest. In Québec collected in pine woods (Levesque & Levesque 1993).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G. & Johnson, Paul J., 2008, The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes, pp. 1-33 in Zootaxa 1811 on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.182781