Pinodytes ovatus Peck & Cook 2011, new combination
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Pinodytes
Pinodytes ovatus

description: Pinodytes ovatus (Hatch, 1957), new combination   
(Figs. 7, 87–95)  
 Catopocerus ovatus Hatch 1957: 21.   
 Type material. Type male in USNM, seen. Type label data: 5 mi N Gold Beach, Curry County, Oregon; 11.V.1955, J. Capizzi.   
 Additional material examined. We examined an additional 44 specimens (see Appendix).   
 Distribution. Specimens (Fig. 87) are known only from Curry County, in southwestern Oregon.   
 Diagnosis. Total length 1.26–1.34 mm; greatest width 0.77–0.80 mm. Reddish brown; oval in shape (Fig. 7).   
 Head. Finely, sparsely punctate, shining, with transverse substriate microsculpture on vertex. Eyes absent. Antenna (Fig. 88) with antennomere 3 narrower than 2, 2 and 3 subequal in length; antennomere 5 larger than 4, longer than 6; antennomere 7 longer but not wider than 8; antennomeres 9 and 10 each with a sensory vesicle indicated apically by a protruding flange. Pronotum. Finely, sparsely punctate; with transverse, closely spaced substriate microsculpture. Widest at base, nearly as wide as elytra; sides rounded, converging to apex; apical margin weakly emarginate, basal margin nearly straight; apical angles broadly rounded, basal angles narrowly rounded. Elytra. Punctation fine, in obscure longitudinal rows, striae not impressed; with fine, rather widely spaced transverse strioles. Joined elytra broad, widest at basal one-fourth. Legs. Protibia (Fig. 89) slender; apical two-thirds of outer margin and apical margin spinose; apical one-half of inner margin with fine, short spines. Mesotibia (Fig. 90) slender; strongly spinose on outer margin and apically; an exceptionally elongate spine at middle of outer margin; smaller spines on apical one-third of inner margin. Metatibia (Fig. 91) slender, nearly straight; with strong spines apically, smaller spines on outer and inner margins. Metafemur (Fig. 91) slender. Male protarsomeres (Fig. 89) feebly or not dilated, bearing elongate setae laterally and thin, broad, colorless phanerae ventrally. Mesotarsomeres without phanerae.   
 Venter. Mesoventrite (Fig. 95) carinate; longitudinal carina with expansion in anterior one-half; not excavated behind transverse carina. Transverse carina on different plane than longitudinal carina. Male genitalia. Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 92, 93) elongate, broad, narrowing strongly at apex. Inverted internal sac with paired large spines and clusters of small spines. Parameres (Figs. 92, 93) moderately broad with flattened apices not surpassing apex of median lobe; each with two closely spaced elongate setae before apex. Spermatheca. Elongate (Fig. 94), tubular, weakly curved.   
 Bionomics. Ecology: Fogel and Peck 1975.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 3077 (1) on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243536