Gomezzuritus Kazantsev Michal Motyka & Bocak 2023, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Kazantsev, Sergey V.
name: Motyka, Michal
name: Bocak, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Gomezzuritus

description: Gomezzuritus gen. nov.
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Type species
Dictyopterus alternatus Fairmaire, 1856.
Diagnosis
The adults of Benibotarus, Greenarus, and Gomezzuritus gen. nov. share three primary costae in each elytron and developed secondary costae. The new genus may be distinguished from Benibotarus and Greenarus by the general appearance (the elytra of Gomezzuritus are apparently more slender), erect pubescence on male antennomeres 3–11 (distinctly decumbent in Benibotarus and Greenarus), and noticeably more oval median pronotal areola (Figs 1B, 2G). More diamond-shaped/rhomboidal areolae are known in Benibotarus and Greenarus. Pyropterus has similarly wide roundish areola, but four primary costae in elytra. Additionally, Gomezzuritus differs from the other two genera in the preapically toothed median lobe of the aedeagus (Fig. 2I–K; Bocak & Bocakova 1987; Kazantsev 1995, 2004).
The larva of Gomezzuritus gen. nov., being quite similar to Pyropterus, can be distinguished by the noticeably less transverse tergite 9 (only ca 1.3 × as wide as long), the location of abdominal spiracles at a distance from the dorsal edge of the epipleurite, and the larger size of the spiracle of abdominal segment 1 compared to the spiracles of segments 2–7. In contrast, Pyropterus has the tergite 9 conspicuously transverse (ca. twice wider than long), its abdominal spiracles are located at the dorsal edge of the epipleurite, and the spiracle of the abdominal segment 1 does not noticeably surpass in size those on segments 2–7 (Bocak & Matsuda 2003; Kazantsev & Nikitsky 2011). The larvae are known for two species of Gomezzuritus as G. longicornis comb. nov. whose larva was recently reported (Kazantsev & Zaitsev 2021) is transferred to this genus. As a result, the larva of Benibotarus remains unknown.
Larvae of several more distant Dictyopterini genera have been described. The larva of Gomezzuritus is easily distinguishable from that of Dictyoptera by the divided tergite 9 (Kazantsev & Nikitsky 2011; Motyka et al. 2022). The other known larva of Dictyopterini is Punicealis medvedevi Kazantsev, 1990. The larva was earlier reported as unidentified Dictyopterini by Levkanicova & Bocak (2009). Now, with a much denser sampling of Dictyopterini, the adult was associated with earlier sequenced larva (Fig. 1A; vouchers ZL2013 and MK1061). The larva of P. medvedevi differs from Gomezzuritus and Pyropterus in a relatively slender and simply rounded pygidium, entire tergites with an incomplete fracture in the middle of the longitudinal midline, and almost straight posterior margin of the ventral cranial plate (see Levkanicova & Bocak 2009).
Etymology
The new genus is named in honour of the Spanish entomologist Jesus Gomez-Zurita Frau (Barcelona, Spain), who is a well-known molecular ecologist and specialist in leaf beetles. Gender masculine.
Description of adult and larva
See Description of Gomezzuritus alternatus.
Included species
Gomezzuritus alternatus comb. nov., G. longicornis comb. nov., and G. rubripennis comb. nov.
description: Published as part of Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2023, European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae), pp. 159-174 in European Journal of Taxonomy 888 on pages 162-163, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, http://zenodo.org/record/8269556