Scolytocis lawrencei Lopes-Andrade 2008, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ciidae
Scolytocis
Scolytocis lawrencei

description: Scolytocis lawrencei Lopes-Andrade sp. nov. (Figs 48–50, 61, 65B, 68B, 77–78, 80)   
Etymology  
The species is named after John F. Lawrence, great coleopterist (and ciidologist) who arranged and organized most of the Xylographellini described in this work.  
Diagnosis  
 The species belongs to the lawrencei species-group, and so is distinguishable from the other Scolytocis by the smooth posterior margin of pronotum and the concave prosternum. It differs from the other Neotropical species in the group mainly by the glabrous elytral apex and the slightly setose metaventrite and abdominal ventrites.   
Description  
 Holotype. (Figs 48–50) Measurements in mm: TL 1.16; PL 0.42; PW 0.53; EL 0.74; EW 0.58; GD 0.53. Ratios: PL/PW 0.80; EL/EW 1.27; EL/PL 1.75; GD/EW 0.91; TL/EW 2.00. Body brown; basal antennomeres, mouthparts and legs light yellowish brown. Head finely and sparsely punctate; interstice between puncture inconspicuously microreticulate. Each antenna (Fig. 65B, paratype) with nine antennomeres (FL 0.073mm; CL 0.130mm; CL/FL 1.79); length of the antennomeres (in mm) as follows: 0.073; 0.033; 0.035; 0.013; 0.013; 0.013; 0.038; 0.030; 0.063. Eyes with greatest width 1.0X the basal width of scutellum. Pronotum with shallow, coarse, sparse punctation; punctures separate by a distance of two to three puncture widths, interstice microreticulate; anterolateral margins slighted arched inwards; posterolateral angles broadly rounded; posterior margin without rugose border. Scutellum impunctate, microreticulate; basal width 0.19X the EW. Elytra with subseriate punctation; punctures coarser and shallower than those of pronotum, border indistinct from elytral surface (at least when seen from above); interstice between punctures rugose, but without microreticulation; elytral apex subacute, declivity without conspicuous concavity but bearing some small, inconspicuous cuticular globules. Each hindwing (Fig. 61) with apical area bearing one vague, incomplete pigmented line near the anterior margin. Prosternum concave, without longitudinal carina at midline; surface shiny, slightly rugose. Metaventrite slightly microreticulate; disc delimited by a circular row of obsolescent punctures; discrimen one-fourth the length of the metaventrite at midline; either side bearing small and sparse setae, each arising from a large obsolescent punctures. Abdominal ventrites bearing small and sparse setae, best seen in lateral view. Each metatibia (Fig. 68B) just slightly expanded near apex, around 4X as long as broad; outer edge broadly rounded, bearing spines (around 20) regularly distributed at apical two thirds and then getting sparser. Male genitalia (in paratypes). (Figs 77–78) Tegmen and median lobe barely sclerotized; tegmen with apex (apical three-fourths) subtriangular; median lobe extremely elongate, more than 10X longer than broad.   
Type series  
 Holotype. (ANIC) Costa Rica: /C. RICA: Heredia Finca la Selva 1974 [printed] July [handwritten]/ J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 3643 [handwritten]/ S. Klein-Feldt [handwritten]/ Rigidoporus sp. / 636 [handwritten]/ Scolytocis lawrencei Lopes-Andrade HOLOTYPUS [printed on red paper]/. Paratypes. Costa Rica: 7 specimens (4 ANIC, 3 LAPC), same data as holotype; 1 specimen (ANIC) /Puerto Viejo Costa Rica VIII-4-65 / A. Raske Collector / ex Polyporus zonalis / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 1613 [handwritten]/; 1 specimen (ANIC) /Turrialba Costa Rica VIII-31-66/ Robin Andrews Collector / Fomes (Rigidoporus) auberianus? / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 1848 [handwritten]/; 1 specimen (CMNC) " COSTA RICA: Punt.[arenas] S. Vito, Las Cruces July 1982 B. Gill 1200m /. Panama: (Total of 51 paratypes: 19 ANIC, 16 FMNH, 15 LAPC, 1 SMTD) 1 specimen / PANAMA: Almirante Bocas del Toro Prov. March 27, 1959 [handwritten] / H. Dybas # [printed] 59-138 [handwritten] / Rigidoporus lignosus /; 5 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. CANAL ZONE [printed] 1.26.59 [handwritten] / H. Dybas [printed] #59-82 [handwritten] / ex Polyporus lignosus /; 17 specimens / Barro Colorado Is. CANAL ZONE [printed] 1.26.59 [handwritten] / H. Dybas [printed] #59-83 [handwritten] / ex Polyporus lignosus /; 11 specimens labeled /Canal Zone: Is. Barro Colorado II.19-III.9-75 Lawrence, Erwin / Rigidoporus sp. /, 5 distinguished labeled /J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 3777 [handwritten]/ and 6 /J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 3811 [handwritten]/; 4 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. Canal Zone Feb. 15,196 8 / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 2419 [handwritten]/, 3 specimens distinguished labeled / Polyporus lignosus / and 1 / Trametes corrugata /; 3 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. Canal Zone Panama, IV-3-67 / ex Polyporus lignosus / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 2100 [handwritten]/; 2 specimens / Panama: Canal Zone Barro Colorado Is. February 6 1976 A. Newton / litter under rotting logs /; 4 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. Canal Zone July 11 1969 / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 2847 [handwritten]/; 2 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. Canal Zone July 11 1969 / Rigidoporus sp. / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 2838 [handwritten]/; 2 specimens /Barro Colorado Is. Canal Zone Aug. 13 1969 / Rigidoporus sp. / J. F. Lawrence Lot [printed] 3042 [handwritten]/. Mexico: 1 specimen (CNCI) / MEX. Chis., Palenque 2-30.VII.1983, rain forest, S&J Peck & R. Anderson, 100m /; 16 specimens (10 FMNH, 6 LAPC) /Palenque, MEX. Chiapas VII-49 C.J. Goodnight/. All the paratypes with an additional label / Scolytocis lawrencei Lopes-Andrade PARATYPUS [printed on yellow paper]/.   
Variation  
Measurements in mm (n = 28, including the holotype): TL 1.00–1.37 (1.19 ± 0.09); PL 0.37–0.47 (0.41 ± 0.03); PW 0.42–0.58 (0.50 ± 0.04); EL 0.58–0.89 (0.75 ± 0.08); EW 0.47–0.63 (0.55 ± 0.05); GD 0.42–0.63 (0.51 ± 0.05). Ratios: PL/PW 0.73–0.90 (0.82 ± 0.05); EL/EW 1.10–1.67 (1.35 ± 0.10); EL/PL 1.38–2.14 (1.83 ± 0.18); GD/EW 0.82–1.00 (0.92 ± 0.05); TL/EW 2.00–2.44 (2.15 ± 0.09).  
Distribution Known from Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama (Fig. 80).  
Host fungi  
 Rigidoporus sp., Rigidoporus lineatus (Pers.) Ryvarden and Rigidoporus microsporus (Sw.) Overeem (Meripilaceae); Earliella scabrosa (Pers.) Gilb. & Ryvarden (Polyporaceae).   
Comments  
 A common and widespread continental Mesoamerican Scolytocis. It co-occurs with Scol. panamensis sp. nov. in Panama, and large specimens of Scol. lawrencei sp. nov. may be confused with it in dorsal view. However, Scol. panamensis sp. nov. belongs to the danielssoni species-group, and is unique among the Scolytocis in the fused antennomeres of the club.
description: Published as part of Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano, 2008, An essay on the tribe Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae), pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 1832 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5126979