Noteucinetus ornatus Lawrence 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lawrence, John F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Eucinetidae
Noteucinetus
Noteucinetus ornatus

description: Noteucinetus ornatus sp. nov.
(Figs 30–31, 60, 68, 89, 120, 126, 142, 148)
Diagnosis. This species differs from N. victoriae in its smaller size (length less than 1.4 mm), shorter, broader body (less than 1.4 times combined elytral width), yellow colouration, with or without black elytral markings, and free portion of each paramere broad at base and narrowing towards subacute apex. It also differs from the two Chilean species, N. chilensis Bullians & Leschen and N. latipennis Bullians & Leschen, and the New Zealand N. nunni Bullians & Leschen in that the elytra are primarily yellow, with black markings, if present, not occupying the entire width. Males of N. ornatus differ from those of N. victoriae and the three exotic species in having a single unmodified mesotibial spur (as opposed to two with one modified).
Description. Length 1.20–1.40 (1.30 ± 0.05) mm; body 1.25–1.40 (1.33) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.67–0.79 (0.72) times elytral width. Colour of dorsal surfaces highly variable; elytra always at least partly yellow, but sometimes with varying amounts of black (a small black spot on each side of suture near middle, a larger black macula crossing both elytra at same point, a large triangular black macula extending from anterior end to about middle, narrowing posteriorly); entirely yellow elytra may appear striped due to longitudinal puncture rows; pronotum varying from yellow to yellowish-brown, reddish-brown or dark brown, but often lighter at the sides; head usually yellow but varying to red or reddish-brown; undersides dark brown or black but with abdominal apex yellow; legs yellowish-brown to reddish-brown or dark brown; antennae and palps yellow. Head 0.88 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.30 times as great as distance between them; inner eye margin without notch. Labrum 0.70 times as long as wide, broadly more or less evenly rounded apically, but with a median prominence cleft at middle. Antenna about 1.44 times as long as head width; 3rd antennomere 0.90 times as long as 4th; 11th antennomere 1.33 times as long as 10th, 1.74 times as long as wide and broadly rounded at apex. Galea slightly wider than lacinia at midpoint, widest at basal third with sides irregularly converging to narrowly rounded apex. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.0 times as long as wide, widest at middle, apex broadly, obliquely truncate with small, rounded apicolateral projection. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.0 times as long as wide, widest near base, with broad and slightly asymmetrical tip. Pronotum 0.24–0.34 (0.30) times as long as wide; prosternal process expanded and truncate at apex. Scutellar shield 0.2 times as wide as pronotum, 0.75 times as long as wide at base with narrowly acute apex. Elytra together 1.05–1.22 (1.12) times as long as wide and 4.55–7.10 (5.43) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 89. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.71 times as long as mesepimeron and 1.52 times as long as wide, roughly pentagonal, with anterior, inner and out edges more or less straight, and posterior portion irregularly triangular, with posteromesal edge longer than posterolateral one. Mesotibia in male with one acute spur and no modified spur. Metatibia with one acute spur 0.87 times as long as first metatarsomere. Parameres about 0.70 times as wide as wide at about middle as penis at same point, sides weakly curved to subacute apex bearing several setae and connected to one another by subapical membrane. Penis slightly, gradually narrowed to subapex, then more strongly narrowed to subacute apex with median cleft, extending well beyond parameral apices.
Types: Holotype, ♁: “ Mt. Glorious, 630m, QLD 14 Nov. 1986 - 30 Jan. 1987 T. Hiller, flight intercept, trough trap, rainforest” (ANIC type #25-067882).
Paratypes. QLD: Binna Burra, 900m, 23.vi.1978, ex leaf log litter, S. & J. Peck (3, ANIC); Binna Burra, 900m, 23.vi.1978, ex rotten bark litter, S. & J. Peck (3, ANIC, CMN); Binna Burra, Lamington Nat. Park, 25.iii–4.iv.1985, ANIC Winkler Extract 1043, leaf & log litter, J. & N. Lawrence (2, ANIC); Boombana Nat. Park, Site 1 (27°24.1’S, 152°47.4’E), 440m, 16.ii.2004, 51834, pyrethrum, QM party (2, QMB); Boombana Nat. Park, Site 1 (27°24.1’S, 152°47.4’E), 440m, 1–30.x.2003, 51644, pitfall trap, QM party (2, QMB); Bulburrin barracks (24°42’S, 151°28’E), 580m, rainforest, 8.x.1999, 7816, Pyrethrum trees, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); Lamington Nat. Park (O’Reilly’s) (28°14’S, 153°08’E), rainforest, 22–27.x.1978, ANIC Berlesate 655, litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Lamington Nat. Park, 4 km NW O’Reillys, Duck Creek Rd. (28°13’S, 153°06’E), 820m, subtropical closed forest, 12.iv.1993, ANIC Berlesate 1504, bark litter, D. S. Chandler (4, ANIC); Manorina N. P. (D’Aguilar N. P.), 500m, nr. Brisbane, 4.vii.1978, under bark, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Mary Cairn Cross Park, 7 km SE Maleny, 900m, rainforest, 18.vi–15.viii.1982, SBP 40, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (4, ANIC, CNM); Mt. Chinghee, 12 km SE Rathdowney, 720m, rainforest, 17,xii,1982, Pyrethrum, Monteith, Yeates, Thompson (1, QMB); Mt. Glorious, 630m, rainforest, 14.xi.1986 – 30.i.1987, flight intercept trough trap, T. Hiller (7. ANIC); Mt. Glorious, 800m, 28.vi.1978, ex leaf log litter, S. & J. Peck (1, CMN); Mt. Glorious (27°20’S, 152°46’E), 21.xii.1990, ANIC Berlesate 1136, leaf & log litter with fungi, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Mt. Glorious, Miala N. P., 600m, 4.vii.1978, under bark, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Mt. Superbus summit, 8–9.ii.1990, pyrethrum trees & logs, Monteith, Thompson, Janetski (2, QMB); Mt. Tenison Woods (27°19’S, 152°44’E), 750m, rainforest, QM Berlesate 934, Stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); O’Reilly’s, Lamington N. P. (26°16’S, 153°10’E), 900m, rainforest, 25.iii.1998, QM Berlesate 967, stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28°15’S, 153°16’E), 1000m, 9.i–19.ii.1995, intercept trap, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28°15’S, 153°16’E), 21.xii.1996, pyrethrum dead trees, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28°15’S, 153°16’E), 1000, rainforest, 21.v.1997, QM Berlesate 936, Stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); Upper Tallebudgera Creek, below Springbrook, 550m, rainforest, 8.i.1984, pyrethrum, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB). NSW: Brindle Creek, nr. Kyogle, Wiangaree S. F. 800m, 20vi.1978, ex litter, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Nightcap Nat. Park, Mt. Nardi, Newton Dr. (28°33’S, 153°17’E), 700m, 791, 4.i.1987, FMHD #87-178, berlese leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Sheepstation Ck., 16 km NE Wiangaree, 600m, rainforest, 13.vi–24.viii.1982, SBP 36, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Wiangaree, 33km NE, Tweed Valley Lookout, c 1000m, rainforest, 13.vi–24.viii.1982, SBP 37, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (2, ANIC).
Distribution. Northern NSW and southern QLD.
Biology. Collected in flight intercept window/trough traps and berlese samples of sifted leaf and log litter and by pyrethrin fogging and stick brushing.
Etymology. Derived from the Latin ornatus, handsome, splendid.
description: Published as part of Lawrence, John F., 2019, New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae), pp. 151-182 in Zootaxa 4668 (2) on pages 168-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3415013