Holopeplus gundlachi
Creators: name: Kc, Sajan
name: Pollock, Darren A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Mycteridae
Holopeplus
Holopeplus gundlachi

description: Holopeplus gundlachi (Grouvelle, 1878)
(Figs 2, 61)
FIGURE 2. Holopeplus gundlachi (Grouvelle, 1878). A. Dorsal habitus (with scale bar); B. Dorsal head and prothorax; C. Lateral view of head and prothorax; D. Male genitalia dorsal view with spiculum gastrale; E. Tegmen dorsal view (with scale bar); F. Tegmen lateral view with one paramere removed.
Hemipeplus gundlachi Grouvelle, 1878a: xliv, 1878b: 267, pl. 8, Fig. 11.— Hetschko 1930: 90; Scott 1933: 611; Blackwelder 1945: 423; Kamiya 1963: 14; Pollock 1999: 56, Figs 1A, 4A.
Holopeplus cubensis Arrow, 1930: 230, Fig. 2.— Scott 1933: 611; Blackwelder 1945: 423; Kamiya 1963: 14; Pollock 1999: 56. Junior synonym of Holopeplus gundlachi (= Hemipeplus gundlachi) as per Scott (1933).
Type Material. Hemipeplus gundlachi, Holotype, sex unknown, in MNHN (Grouvelle Collection); not studied, see Grouvelle (1878a, b) for details. Holopeplus cubensis Arrow: 2 specimens (1 specimen, parts only), sex unknown, on same card, labeled: ‘[round label with red margin] Type / Holquin, Cuba, Sharp Coll. 1905-313 / Holopeplus cubensis, type arrow / identical with type of Hemipeplus gundlachi Grouvelle 1878 —Types compared March 1934 —H.S.’, in BMNH.
Other Material Examined. CUBA. Cienfuegos. Cayamas, 3.6, E.A. Schwarz, (DAPC, 1♂). Guantanamo. El Yunque, in/around campismo popular, 20°20.4’N, 74°32.9’W ca. 40 masl, 10–13.vi.2012, M. Fikáček leg., at light in the campismo popular, (NMP6 V, 1♂) (Fig. 2).
Diagnosis. Holopeplus gundlachi is distinguished by its elongate head and pronotum, characterized by a convex anterior pronotal margin. Holopeplus gundlachi has the following diagnostic features: temples absent to moderately present in some specimens; antennomeres mostly subfiliform; eyes small (slightly shorter than scape), moderately wide and moderately convex; head elongate; pronotum elongate; anterior half slightly wider than posterior half; anterolateral angles indistinct, rounded; pronotal pad distinct and shelf-like; posterolateral angles obtuse, rounded; pronotal lobe short with median notch; scutellar shield transverse, subpentagonal, about twice as wide as long; color rufotestaceous, head and pronotum darker; distribution: Bahamas, Cuba.
Male Genitalia (Figs 2D–F). (Tegmen length = 0.48 mm (n = 2)) Lobe of basale short and wide; shoulders of basale obtusely angled without much slant; suture between apicale and basale prominent and raised; parameres elongate with inner margins arcuate; penis broadly widened basally with notch near the base.
Variation. The examined specimen from Guantánamo (Cuba) has slight temples but no differences in genitalia were found.
Remarks. This is the only known species of Holopeplus.
Geographical Distribution (Fig. 61). Greater Antilles (Bahamas and Cuba).
description: Published as part of Kc, Sajan & Pollock, Darren A., 2025, Review of the Hemipeplinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) fauna of the world with descriptions of twenty-nine new species, pp. 1-140 in Zootaxa 5574 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5574.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14746103