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

description: <i>Pinodytes delnorte</i> Peck &amp; Cook, new species (Figs. 36, 310, 327–334) Type material. <b>Holotype:</b> male (SBPC). <b>UNITED STATES. California:</b> Del Norte Co., Jed Smith Redw. St. Pk., 10 km E Crescent City, N41°46’ W124°05’, mixed forest litter Ber., 40m, 30.V.03, S. Peck, 03-87. <b>Paratypes</b> (76). <b>UNITED STATES. California,</b> same data as holotype, 5 (SBPC); Del Norte Co., Jed Smith Redw. St. Pk., N41°48’ W124°07’, 4.Vi.2003, 65m, S. Peck, 03-92, redwood for. litter Ber., 1 (SBPC); Del Norte Co., Myrtle Ck. Botanical Res., 18kmNE Crescent City, N41°48’ W124°03’, 31.V.2003, 30m, S. Peck, 03-88, mixed for. litter, 9 (SBPC); Del Norte Co., Del Norte Redw. St. Pk., 10kmS Crescent City, N41°42’ W124°08’, 2.VI. 2003, 300m, S. Peck, 03-91, redwood for. litter Ber., 2 (SBPC); Del Norte Co., nr. Fort Dick, 21.V.1957, redwood floor, 1 (SBPC); Del Norte Co., Crescent City, 19.IX.1978, T.R. Haig, Ber. redwood duff, 25 (CSCA); Del Norte Co., Jeddiah Smith State Pk., 25.XI.1981, F. W. Merickel, <i>Sequoia</i> leaf litter Ber., 25 (WFBM); Del Norte Co., 2miN Fort Dick, 21.XI.1953, V.D. Roth, 4 (EMEC); Del Norte Co., Fort Dick, 2.XII.1966, C.W. O’Brien, Ber. shore debris, 4 (FSCA). <b>Additional material examined.</b> We examined an additional 137 specimens (see Appendix) for a total of 214 specimens. <b>Distribution.</b> Specimens (Fig. 310) are known only from Del Norte and Humboldt counties, in northwestern California. <b>Diagnostic description</b>. Total length 1.58–1.84 mm; total width 0.80–0.90 mm. Dark reddish brown; elongateoval in shape (Fig. 36). <b>Head</b>. Finely punctate, shining, with reticulate microsculpture. Eyes absent. Antenna (Fig. 327) with antennomere 2 slightly longer than 3; antennomere 5 larger than 4 and 6; antennomere 7 clearly larger than 8; antennomeres 9 and 10 lack visible sensory vesicles. <b>Pronotum</b>. Finely punctate, punctures separated by 2– 4 diameters; with a few larger punctures bearing short setae; with reticulate microsculpture. Widest at posterior one-third; slightly narrower than elytra; sides weakly rounded, narrowing in apical two-thirds; apical margin weakly emarginate, basal margin nearly straight; anterior angles broadly rounded, basal angles weakly obtuse, narrowly rounded. <b>Elytra</b>. Moderately densely, coarsely punctate; punctures finer near apex; punctures joined by fine strioles forming an imbricate pattern; subbasally with impressed transverse striole joining a row of punctures. Slightly wider than pronotum; sides about parallel in basal one-third, then narrowing to apex. <b>Legs</b>. Protibia (Fig. 328) narrow at base, broad apically in both sexes; 2 curved spines near apex of outer margin; apical one-half of inner margin with fine, dense spines. Mesotibia (Fig. 329) narrower than protibia in both sexes; with strong spines on outer margin, apical two-fifths of inner margin, and apically. Metatibia (Fig. 330) slender, with swollen apex in male, unmodified in female; with slender spines in apical one-half, spinose apically. Metafemur (Fig. 330) slender. Male protarsomeres (Fig. 328) not or weakly expanded; protarsomere 1 as long as 2 and 3 combined; bearing elongate setae laterally and thin, broad, colorless phanerae ventrally. Mesotarsomeres without phanerae. <b>Venter</b>. Mesoventrite (Fig. 334) carinate; longitudinal carina with median tooth; broad and smooth anterior to tooth; excavated behind transverse carina; patches of dense, white setae lateral to longitudinal carina. <b>Male genitalia</b>. Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 331, 332) elongate, moderately slender, dorsoventrally curved, with elongate, narrow apex. Inverted internal sac (Fig. 332) with a small sclerotized structure and numerous short, broad spines. Parameres (Figs. 331, 332) slender, shorter than median lobe, each with two apical setae. <b>Spermatheca</b>. Elongate (Fig. 333), curved, tubular. <b>Etymology.</b> The name <i>delnorte</i>, a noun in apposition, refers to the occurrence of this species in Del Norte Co., California.
description: Published as part of <i>Peck, Stewart B. &amp; 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)</i> on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243536