Omissophagus tsoodzilianus Esser &amp; R &amp; Usa &amp; M 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Esser, Jens
name: R, Nearctic
name: Usa
name: M, New
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cryptophagidae
Omissophagus
Omissophagus tsoodzilianus

description: <i>Omissophagus tsoodzilianus</i> nov.sp. (fig. 1) T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype &amp;male;: " USA: NM Cibola Co., 35°17.71N, 107°36.04W, Mt. Taylor oak-detr, 29-IX-2007 elev 8827’" [cES]. Paratypes: 1&amp;female; " USA: NM Cibola Co., 35°15.32N, 107°35.24W, Mt. Taylor Dead Spruce, 8-X-2005 " [cES]; 1&amp;female; " 25-AUG-1995, Mt. Taylor, New Mexico / pitfall trap " [cBU]; 1&amp;male; " 20-VIII-1999, Mt. Taylor, NM rjb" [cBU]; 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; " summer-1997, Mt. Taylor, NM, pitfall, RJB " [cBU]; 1&amp;male;, 2&amp;female;&amp;female; " 26-AUG-1997, Mt. Taylor, NM, pitfall, RJB " [cBU]; 4&amp;female;&amp;female; " 25-JUL-1996, Mt. Taylor, NM, pitfall, RJB [cBU]; 1&amp;male; " 06-SEP-1997, Mt. Taylor, NM, RJB " [cBU]; 3&amp;male;&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; " USA, NM, Cibola Co., 35°15.25N, 107°35.32W, Cibola NF-Mt. Taylor, 16-IX-2006 " [cBU]; 3&amp;female;&amp;female; " USA, NM, Cibola Co., 35°15.32N, 107°35.24W, Mt. Taylor, dead spruce, 06-X-2005 [cBU]; 4&amp;male;&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; " USA, NM, Cibola Co., 35°17.71N, 107°36.04W, Mt. Taylor, oak detr., 29-IX-2007, elev. 8827'" [cBU]; 141 ex " USA: NM: Cibola Co., Mt. Taylor, pitfall trap, N 35°15.21 W 107°34.17, leg. R. J. Buss, 04.08.2017 " [cBU, cES]. E t y m o l o g y: Named after the Navajo word for the Mount Taylor in New Mexico – Tsoodzil – where the types were collected. D e s c r i p t i o n: Male, 2.2 mm, reddish-brown, membranous wings absent, extremities stout. Surface with fine punctation, on head and pronotum somewhat finer and denser than on elytra (basal third). Pubescence sparse and fine, yellowish and decumbent. Eyes small, slightly rounded, with just a few ommatidia. Antennae 11- segmented with a 3-segmented club. Segment I short and drop-shaped, segment II smaller and also drop-shaped. Segment III longer that wide, segment IV to VIII rounded and more or less equal. Segment IX short and transverse, segment X wider than IX, moderately transverse. Segment XI drop-shaped but asymmetric, tip acute. Pronotum convex with sides moderately rounded, with one small tooth-like anterior callosity and two small teeth on each side. Sides at the second tooth slightly angled. Glandular porus only at the anterior callosity visible. Rim of the sides of pronotum indistinct. Pronotum moderately transverse, 1,5 x wider than long. Elytra elongated, nearly straight in the medium third, humeral callus absent. Tarsal formula 5-5-4 (females with 5-5-5). C o m m e n t: Similar to <i>Omissophagus sandianus</i> nov.sp. but differs in more transverse pronotum, rounded eyes and different antennae. So far known restricted to the Mount Taylor range in New Mexico.
description: Published as part of <i>Esser, Jens, R, Nearctic, Usa &amp; M, New, 2018, New genera and new species of Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera) from USA and Mexico, pp. 1079-1083 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2)</i> on pages 1080-1081, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174073