Anticyphon peruvianus Ruta, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ruta, Rafał
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scirtidae
Anticyphon
Anticyphon peruvianus

description: Anticyphon peruvianus sp. nov.
(Figs 1 G, 12)
Type material. Holotype, male (NMPC): “ PERU, LIMA. \ Soukup leg.”.
Diagnosis. Body shape, size and granulate punctation of pronotal disc make this species similar to A. ecuadorensis sp. nov. and A. oyonensis sp. nov. Identifiable on the basis of male genitalia morphology: trigonium with very short median process, distinctly shorter than parameroids, tegmen with paired lateral outgrowths.
Description. Male. Body oval, medium sized (TL 5.75 mm), slightly flattened, clothed with brownish procumbent setae. Colouration of dorsum brown, head a bit darker than pronotum and elytra, antennae and legs dark brown. Head small, 1.7× wider than interocular space, covered with strong granulate punctures; eyes relatively big, protuberant; frons with depression in central portion. Mandibles without denticles on inner margins. Antennae as in genus description. Pronotum small, transversely rectangular, sides slightly curved, widest at posterior angles, anterolateral angles broadly rounded, not produced; disc moderately convex. Punctation of pronotum granulate both on disc and lateral portions. Pronotum with a pair of shallow pits along basal margin. Each elytron with 3 well marked longitudinal carinae. Elytral punctation irregular, relatively sparse; punctures shallow, separated by ca. 1.0 diameter. Penis (Fig. 12 A) large (L 2.08 mm, W 0.60 mm), parameroids long, with subtly serrate outer margins, rounded at apices; trigonium trifid, with long lateral processes and short apical one, pala as long as parameroids, narrow; tegmen (Fig. 12 B) large (L 1.74 mm, W 0.80 mm), with narrow, pointed parameres and long, narrow, paired lateral outgrowths; sternite VIII (Fig. 12 C) small (L 0.58 mm, W 0.63 mm), Vshaped, with sparse setae in apical portions; sternite IX (Fig. 12 D) relatively small (L 0.62 mm, W 0.64 mm), consisting of two subtriangular hemisternites, lightly sclerotized, with setose apical portion; tergite VIII (Fig. 12 E) (L 0.98 mm, W 0.85 mm) with transversely rectangular apical plate, apical half darker, covered with microsetae, apical margin with row of dense, relatively short setae, basal portion of apical plate with transverse rod, apodemes shorter than apical portion; tergite IX (Fig. 12 F) (L 0.92 mm, W 0.73 mm) distinctly narrower than tergite VIII, mesal and outer portions lightly sclerotized, lateral portions membranous, not pigmented.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements and ratios. Male (n=1): TL 5.75 mm, PL 0.95 mm, PW 1.90 mm, EL 4.90 mm, EW 3.35 mm, TL/EW 1.7, PW/PL 2.0, EL/EW 1.5, EL/PL 5.2.
Distribution. Known from Peru, precise locality unknown (see note below) (Fig. 14).
Etymology. Name refers to Peru, where the species was collected.
Note. The holotype was collected by Jaroslav Soukup (1902–1989), a Czech salesian priest, who spent almost his entire life in Peru. He was a botanist collecting plants and occasionally also other specimens in various areas of Peru. During 1967–1980 he worked at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. Specimens deposited in NMPC were labelled “ Lima ” but it rather refers to the domicile of J. Soukup than to a real collecting site (J. Jelínek, personal communication).
description: Published as part of Ruta, Rafał, 2016, Anticyphon gen. nov., a new genus of Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea) inhabiting high altitude Andean cloud forests and páramo formation, pp. 301-318 in Zootaxa 4175 (4) on pages 314-315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256776