Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) pecki , Tauber and Tauber 2010
Creators: name: Tauber, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Chrysopidae
Chrysopodes
Chrysopodes pecki

description: <i>Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) pecki,</i> Tauber and Tauber, 2010 Figs 40e, 41e, 57d, 59c, 63, 64d, 65 <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) <i>pecki</i> Tauber and Tauber, 2010: 67 [USNM, Holotype (by original designation): “ Ecuador, Galápagos Archipelago, Isla Isabela, Volcan Wolf, 4 km NE Puerto Bravo”]. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) <i>pecki</i>, the third endemic species of <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) from the Galápagos, is known only from two extinct volcanoes on Isabela <b>Figure 6 &amp;lcedil;.</b> <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) <i>nigripilosus</i>: Male genitalia, <b>(a)</b> gonarcus (frontal view – beak forward, gonarcal apodeme behind) <b>(b)</b> gonarcus (dorsal view – rods forward, gonarcal apodemes behind <b>(c)</b> terminus of abdomen with eversible pouches everted (dorsal, with gonarcus rotated to lateral position). <b>ab.t.</b> abdominal terminus; beak, sclerotized beak at tip of mediuncus <b>ev.p.</b> eversible pouch <b>g.ap.</b> gonarcal apodeme (arm) <b>g.b.</b> gonarcal bridge <b>gon</b> gonarcus <b>rod</b> internal rod of mediuncus. Island (Volcán Wolf and Volcán Alcedo), where it is sympatric with <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigripilosus</i>. The adults share many features with <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigripilosus</i> and <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigricubitus</i>, but they differ in having a pair of brown spots on the dorsum of the head, posterolateral to the vertex, elongate pronota (Fig. 40e). This species is the only one of the three Galápagos species that has forewings exceeding 13 mm in length. Like <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigripilosus</i>, the wings do not show dark suffusion around the crossveins. But like <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigricubitus</i> <i>,</i> the second cubital crossvein is very dark and it bears a dark brown swelling mesally; however, the swelling is smaller than that on most <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigricubitus</i> wings (Fig. 63; Tauber and Tauber 2010, Table 2). Although the males of <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>pecki</i> closely resemble those of <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigripilosus</i> and <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigricubitus</i>, there are some distinguishing features (Fig. 65). For example, the gonarcus (length of arms, bridge width) is larger than that of either <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigripilosus</i> or <i>nigricubitus</i> (Tauber and Tauber 2010, Table 5). Second, as in <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>nigricubitus</i> <i>,</i> the horizonal apodeme along the ventral margin of T9+ectoproct is relatively straight, and it has a well sclerotized, unforked, pointed tip with a small ventral knob (Fig. 64d). Other differences were noted in the original description (Tauber and Tauber 2010). Female <i>C</i>. (<i>N</i>.) <i>pecki</i> are distinguished by their very dark brown coloration on the fifth abdominal sternite, light brown pigmentation basally on S6, and cream coloration on the distal portion of S6 and all of S7 (Fig. 57d). <b>Description.</b> Available in Tauber and Tauber (2010). <i>Larvae, Eggs, Biology</i>. Unknown. Adult specimens were collected in April and May. <b>Type material</b> . <b> <i>Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) pecki</i> Tauber &amp; Tauber.</b> The holotype (a male, pinned) is in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (USNM). Its labels read: (1) “ECU: Galáp: Isabela / V. Wolf, 4 kmNE. P. Bravo / humid for, 17.V.96 / uv light / S. Peck, 96–192”; (2) “ HOLOTYPE / <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) <i>pecki</i> Tauber &amp; Tauber, des. 2010” [red]. There are two paratypes (females, in alcohol) in the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium (IRSN). Their labels read: (1) “ Ecuador, Galápagos Arch., Isla Isabela, Volcán Alcedo, SE crater rim at “Geyser”, 1000 m, 3/IV/1996, L. Baert, K. Desender &amp; J.-P. Maelfait, B96/0074”; (2) “ PARATYPE / <i>Chrysopodes</i> (<i>Neosuarius</i>) <i>pecki</i> Tauber &amp; Tauber, des. 2010” [yellow]. <b>Specimens examined.</b> Type material only. <b>Known distribution.</b> Two extinct volcanoes (Volcán Wolf and Volcán Alcedo) on Isabela Island (Galapagos). <b>Variation.</b> Sample size very small.
description: Published as part of <i>Tauber, Catherine, 2010, Revision of Neosuarius, a subgenus of Chrysopodes (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), pp. 1-104 in ZooKeys 44 (44)</i> on pages 84-86, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.44.387, http://zenodo.org/record/576660
description: {"references": ["Tauber CA, Tauber MJ (2010) Two new endemic species of Chrysopodes (Neosuarius) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the Galapagos Islands. ZooKeys 42: 47 - 78."]}