Ancyropilus monteithi Bartlett & Lambkin 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bartlett, Justin S.
name: Lambkin, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Ancyropilus
Ancyropilus monteithi

description: Ancyropilus monteithi sp. nov.
ZooBank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 827B290A-91D3-4C2F-8089-0C260E6AA1EE
(Figs 14, 30, 69, 105, 143; Map 1)
HOLOTYPE ♁: Queensland: Qld: 16°58′ Sx 145°26′E Emerald Hill, Mareeba. 6-7 Nov 2004. G.B. Monteith. open forest. 11680 (QM, type reg. T258547). PARATYPES (12): Queensland: same data as holotype (8, QM); Dimbulah, 11.11.43 (1, QDPC); 12.39S 142.42E, QLD, 4km NE Batavia Downs, 11 Dec 1992 – 17 Jan 1993, Malaise Trap, P.Zborowski (1, ANIC); Mutchilba, N.Q., Dec. 1933, A. D. Selby // F. E. Wilson Collection // COL-65676 (1, NMV); same data as previous except COL-65678 (1, NMV).
Diagnosis. Pronotum rounded laterally, disc dense with setae and fine punctation; elytra notably broader than pronotum, dark with orange fasciate and apical maculations (humeral maculae absent), the transverse fascia large and curved at the suture, punctation without nodules, 8 th stria beginning between 7 th and 12 th punctation of 7 th stria, at least striae 2–9 terminating at apical macula, interstriae densely setose (Fig. 14); femora predominantly yellow, terminally brown, tarsi with three ventral tarsal pads.
Description. Habitus: Fig. 143. Total length: 11.1–13.2 mm (holotype, 12.1 mm). Head: Cranium black, clypeus, supra-antennal elevations and submentum black, gula, anteclypeus and labrum orange, antennae and palpi brown to orange-brown; eyes separated by about 0.72–0.8 eye widths (holotype, 0.8); vertex and frons with dense network of punctation, most punctures circular though interstical surface irregularly-shaped, vertex finely rugulose at base, frons with a short impunctate strip near vertex, slightly raised at narrowest point, transversely rugulose below narrowest point; clypeus with circular punctation, smooth before anteclypeus; genae and submentum wrinkled; exterior margins of terminal palpomeres about 1–1.5 times (maxillae) and 1.9–2.2 times (labium) the length of inside edges; antennae reaching base of pronotum or almost; eyes and most of cranium vested with long erect orange setae, frons and vertex densely distributed with shorter setae. Prothorax: Black; pronotum 1.17–1.3 times longer than wide (holotype, 1.2), sides rounded, middle about as wide as anterior part; subapical depression deeply v-shaped, central impression slight, lateral sulci indistinct, surface rough in appearance, densely covered in network of tightly-packed punctations; well-distributed with very fine short setae (sometimes in tuft-like clusters on disc near subapical depression) and fewer long erect setae. Pterothorax: Sternites dark brown, dense with fine posteriorly-directed setae; elytra blackish with orange markings (each elytron with a large apical macula and a broad fascia which curves at the suture), length to width ratio 2.44–2.54:1 (holotype, 2.45:1), notably wider than pronotum; 8 th stria beginning between 7 th and 12 th punctation of 7 th stria, at least striae 2–9 reaching apical macula with most punctation well-marked (striae 1 and 10 sometimes ending before apical macula); punctation circular, without nodules; epipleurae extending half way into apical maculae; interstriae dense with short, fine, setae (>3 per puncture, often several setae across interstrial width), plus longer thicker erect setae (<1 per puncture); hindwing with CuA 3+4 and CuA 1 cross-veins complete, MP 3+4 basad of CuA 1 crossvein small (but not completely absent). Legs: Femora predominantly yellow, black just before tibia, tibia entirely black, tarsi dark brown, ventral tarsal pads orange; femora slender (profemora slightly thicker but not particularly swollen). Abdomen: Ventrites orange. Male genitalia: Tegmen (Fig. 30) slightly narrowing toward parameroid lobes, dorsal sinus about one-quarter tegmen length, open apically, internally tapering inward with a semi-circular excavation on each side at half its length, terminally curved, ventral sinus of similar length, tegminal arms tapering gently to meet apodeme, apodeme about one-quarter tegmen length; median lobe as in Fig. 69; pygidium as in Fig. 105.
Etymology. We name this species after Dr Geoff Monteith, former Senior Curator of Queensland Museum Entomology, in acknowledgement of his lifelong commitment to entomology and species discovery in Queensland.
Biology. Adults have been collected during November and December. Mareeba specimens were collected in open forest. The Balavia Downs specimen was collected in a Malaise trap.
Distribution (Map 1). Ancyropilus monteithi sp. nov. is known from the Atherton Tableland and near Batavia Downs, Cape York Peninsula.
description: Published as part of Bartlett, Justin S. & Lambkin, Christine L., 2022, Australian Opilonini (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) part I: A revised taxonomy for Australian Opilo Latreille including descriptions of new genera and species, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 5220 (1) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7441294