Biolus brunoi Lumen & Kamdńskd, 2024, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Lumen, Ryan
name: Kamdńskd, Marcdn J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Biolus
Biolus brunoi

description: 3. Biolus brunoi sp.nov.
(Figs 1B, 2C, 6J, 7C, 8C)
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Diagnosis: This taxon is most similar to some specimens of Biolus asperipennis. In addition to characteristics provided above, B. brunoi can be separated from other Biolus species via: tarsal setae dark/black rather than golden; tubercles absent on elytral disc; abdominal ventrite V with large setigerous punctures; head
punctation coarse and closely spaced (separated by ≤1 puncture diameter). Additionally, B. brunoi aedeagal parameres are dis - tinctly pointed (truncate or apically blunted or rounded in all other species of Biolus and Eurynotus).
Description: Length 15–18 mm; width 7.5–10 mm. Head: Coarsely punctate, punctures closely spaced, separated by ≤1 puncture diameter. Mentum without apical notch. Eye with impressed sulcus situated around perimeter of dorsal lobe. Prothorax: Pronotum coarsely punctate, punctures separated by ≤1 puncture diameter. Hypomeron shallowly and coarsely punctate and lightly sculptured/wrinkled. Pterothorax: Elytron not costate, without tubercles on disc. Elytral interval X terminates between hind coxae and elytra base. Epipleuron narrower than width of elytral intervals 9 + 10. Elytral inter - vals not obscured by epipleuron in ventral view. Abdomen: Punctate. Abdominal ventrite V coarsely punctate, punctures separated by ~1 puncture diameter with larger, setigerous punctures intermixed. Females without median apical notch. Legs: Male hind tibiae very slightly flattened/twisted, ap - pearing bent. Female legs unmodified. Tarsi with black or dark setae. Males: pro/meso tarsi enlarged, with ventral, tomen - tose pads. Male terminalia: Parameres strongly tapered and pointed apically. Female terminalia: Bursa copulatrix sac -like and without sclerites, spermatheca thick and coiled, accessory pouch absent.
Material examined: Holotype (TMNH): S. Afr.; E Cape; 1070m 30km NE Somerset East 32.31 S — 25.34 E / 30.11.2007; E -Y:3767 general collecting leg. Ruth Müller. Paratypes (N = 17): TMNH: ‘ S. Afr., Cape - Karroo Woodcliff farm 31.57 S - 24.38 E; 13.9.1983; E -Y:2004 singled day leg. Penrith (2 specimens)’, ‘ S.Afr.; E Cape 1450m 50km NE Graaf Reinet 32.09 S - 24.51 E; 27.11.2007.E -Y: 3766 under stones leg. Ruth Müller (5 specimens)’, ‘ S. Afr.; E Cape; 1070m 30km NE Somerset East 32.31 S - 25.34 E / 30.11.2007; E -Y:3767 general collecting leg. Ruth Müller (4 specimens)’, ‘ S.Afr., E. Cape Prov. Swaershoek Pass 32.17 S - 25.32 E, 10.10.1984; E -Y: 2142 ground and vegetation leg. R. Müller’, ‘ S.Afr.; E Cape; 1070m 30km N Bedford 32.24 S - 26.05 E, 12.12.2007; E -Y 3768 general collecting leg. Ruth Müller (3 specimens)’. MNHN: ‘ Cap. B. Esp. ’.
Etymology: Named after Bruno, dear friend of Ruth Müller (Pretoria, South Africa).
Distribution: South Africa (Fig. 9).
description: Published as part of Lumen, Ryan & Kamdńskd, Marcdn J., 2024, evdsdon of the darkldng beetle genus Eurynotus (Blaptdnae: Platynotdnd % and new records of ovovdvdpary dn ºenebrdonddae, pp. 358-386 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201 (201) on pages 376-377, DOI: 10.1093/zooldnnean/zlad146, http://zenodo.org/record/13315269