Tropicis cuccodoroi Lopes-Andrade 2008, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ciidae
Tropicis
Tropicis cuccodoroi

description: Tropicis cuccodoroi Lopes-Andrade sp. nov. (Figs. 146–148, 152, 154A, 155A, 156, 158)   
Etymology  
 This species is named after Giulio Cuccodoro, who kindly authorized the loan of the Tropicis from the collection of MHNG.   
Diagnosis  
 The species close resembles Trop. brevicarinatus Scott, and it differs from it and the other described Tropicis by the indistinct elytral keels.   
Description  
 Holotype. (Figs 146–148) Measurements in mm: TL 1.32; PL 0.42; PW 0.53; EL 0.79; EW 0.58; GD 0.53. Ratios: PL/PW 0.80; EL/EW 1.36; EL/PL 1.88; GD/EW 0.91; TL/EW 2.27. Body dark brown; head and pronotum darker than elytra; basal antennomeres, mouthparts and legs yellowish brown; abdominal ventrite brown. Head with conspicuous and coarse punctation; interstice between punctures smooth, shiny. Each antenna (Fig. 154A) with ten antennomeres (FL 0.103mm; CL 0.135mm; CL/FL 1.32); length of the antennomeres (in mm) as follows: 0.07; 0.038; 0.035; 0.025; 0.013; 0.015; 0.015; 0.035; 0.038; 0.063. Eyes with greatest width 1.67X the basal width of scutellum. Pronotum deeply and coarsely punctate; punctures separated by a distance of one puncture width or less; interstice between punctures smooth, shiny; anterolateral margins straight; posterolateral angles broadly rounded; posterior margin without rugose border. Scutellum very small, impunctate, glabrous, shiny; basal width 0.075X the EW. Elytral punctation and interstice similar to that of pronotum; elytral apex rounded, without longitudinal keels; apical declivity with very weak concavity, cuticular globules inconspicuous; elytral suture margined at apical third. Each hindwing (Fig.152) with apical area bearing two distinct pigmented lines, one near the anterior margin and the other almost reaching the posterior margin. Prosternum with fine, regular, circular microreticulation in high relief. Metaventrite and abdominal ventrites glabrous, bearing microreticulation similar to that of prosternum. Each metatibia (Fig. 155A) slender, subtriangular, just slightly expanded to apex; outer lateral edge straight, bearing around 5 sparse spines; outer apical edge bearing around 10 spines, close to each other. Male genitalia (in paratypes). (Fig. 156) Genitalia elongate, subcylindrical, sclerotized; median lobe nearly 1.3X longer than tegmen, around 15X as long as wide.   
Type series  
 Holotype. (MHNG) Réunion: / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Pl. des Chicots 21.4. 73 - 1860m Tamisage [handwritten]/ Tropicis cuccodoroi Lopes-Andrade HOLOTYPUS [printed on red paper]. Paratypes. Réunion: Total of 26 specimens (7 LAPC; 19 MHNG). 7 specimens / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Cilaos Grand Matarum 1.xi.69 tamisage [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion J. David [printed] Foret Bebour Aout 1973 [handwritten] /; 3 specimens / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Brûlé de Mare Longue 23.2.72 tamisage tronc [handwritten] ”; 3 specimens / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Takamaka 26.i.72 chemin du barrage Tamisage souche très humide [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Plaine des Makes 1500m-19.xi.70 s/ ecorces tamarin [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Piste Forestier de la Pl. des Affouches 19.11. 67 P. K5 [sic] [handwritten]/; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Pl. des Makes 14km - 15.xi.70 tamisage troncset humus [handwritten] /; 4 specimens / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Pl. d’Affouches 1200m-1.xi.71 tamisage souche et humus Gite [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] ND de la Paix 31.xii. 70-1500m tamisage [handwritten] /; 2 specimens / La Réunion P. Schauenberg [printed] Forêt endémique Ravine Grand Chaloupe - 590m 11.i.75 [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Plaine des Cafres ND de la Paix 9.i.72 tamisage [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / La Réunion Y. Gomy [printed] Gite Forestiere de Bebour 22.4.72 tamisage humus [handwritten] /. Mauritius: Total of 76 specimens (2 ANIC, 19 LAPC, 55 MHNG). 11 specimens labeled / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Macabe Forest 13.i.70 tronc mort [handwritten] /; 5 specimens / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Macabe 11.4.70 [handwritten] /; 6 specimens / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Magenta 11.4.70 [handwritten] /; 50 specimens / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Mont Cocotte 600m 28.i.71 tamisage [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Mare Longue 19.i.71 tamisage tronc [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Mont Cocotte 19.i.1970 tronc mort [handwritten] /; 1 specimen / Ile Maurice Y. Gomy [printed] Riviere Patate 19.i.71 tamisage tronc [handwritten]/. All paratypes with an additional label / Tropicis cuccodoroi Lopes-Andrade PARATYPUS [printed on yellow paper]/.   
Variation  
Measurements in mm (n = 20, including the holotype): TL 0.95–1.58 (1.19 ± 0.15); PL 0.32–0.53 (0.39 ± 0.05); PW 0.42–0.68 (0.51 ± 0.06); EL 0.63–0.95 (0.74 ± 0.08); EW 0.47–0.74 (0.55 ± 0.07); GD 0.42–0.58 (0.50 ± 0.04). Ratios: PL/PW 0.70–0.89 (0.77 ± 0.04); EL/EW 1.18–1.50 (1.35 ± 0.09); EL/PL 1.63–2.14 (1.90 ± 0.14); GD/EW 0.77–1.00 (0.90 ± 0.06); TL/EW 1.91–2.30 (2.15 ± 0.10).  
Distribution  
Mascarene Islands (La Reunion, Mauritius; Fig. 158).  
Host-fungi  
Unknown.  
Comments  
 This species resembles Trop. brevicarinatus Scott from Seychelles, but differs in lacking longitudinal keels at the elytral apex.
description: Published as part of Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano, 2008, An essay on the tribe Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae), pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 1832 (1) on pages 42-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1832.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5126979