Afrocerophytum vix Costa, Vanin & Rosa, 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Costa, Cleide
name: Vanin, Sergio A.
name: Rosa, Simone P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerophytidae
Afrocerophytum
Afrocerophytum vix

description: Afrocerophytum vix sp. nov.
(Figs. 1–23)
Type material. Holotype ♂. IVORY COAST, ‘‘Region de Tai, environs du village de Gouleako’’, V. von Zeijst & Robert cols., 16.II.1987 (MNHN). Paratypes ♀. EQUATORIAL GUINEA (ex˗" Guinea Española "), Evinayong 1 female, Dr L. Báguena col. (MNCN ˗ CSIC); Nkolentangan, 1 female collection of Ivo Jenis from Prague, Czech Republic. GABON. Ogové River (= Ogooué River Valley), 1 female A. C. Good col, ex˗ Holland Coll. (CMNH).
Length: male (Figs 1, 2) 6.2 mm; females (Figs 5, 6) 8.1–8.4 mm. General coloration: head, elytra, legs and ventral region yellowish brown; pronotum reddish brown, antennae velvet black with two first segments yellowish brown (Figs. 3, 4). Interocular distance to head width = 0.39. Frons convex; frontal punctures shallow (Fig. 3); anterior and posterior carinae absent (Fig.3). Antenna of male: antennomere III–X serrate (Fig. 4) (III = 1.1X, IV–IX= 1.3X, X=1.2X as long as wide); antennomere XI elongate oval, 2.0 times as long as wide. Antenna of female: antennomere III–X serrate (Fig. 5) (III–IV= 1.1 times, V–X = 1.3–1.4 times as long as wide); antennomere XI elongate oval, 1.7 times as long as wide. Apical maxillary palpomere (Fig.8) similar in male and female, securiform, about 0.5 as long as wide.
Pronotum (Fig.1, 3) convex; subrectangular; about 0.60X as long as wide (male), and 0.65X (female); sides rounded, widest about middle; sides gradually converging anteriorly and posteriorly, anterior margin gently sinuous; posterior angles not produced laterally; disc with homogeneous coalescent punctures, median depression evident, median carina absent. Prosternum (Fig.7): Chin piece truncate (Fig.7). Elytra (Figs.1, 5) 0.7–0.8X as long as body length, each 3.7–4.1X as long as wide, without additional row, interstria IX weakly convex. Scutellum subtriangular, transverse, apex rounded. Profemur without longitudinal carina (posterior surface), upper distal angle acute and produced. Bases of tergite IX and sternite IX free, not fused (Fig.10. Aedeagus (Figs.11–19): Penis about 4.4X as long as broad, apex acuminate, phallobase 1.2X as long as wide, anterior margin not emarginated, borders sclerotized, posterior process about 2.8X as long as base length of phallobase; parameres: basal region with hook˗like structure, distal region unilobate, and partially membranous, each apex slightly turned outwards. Female reproductive system: ovipositor (Figs. 20–23) long and narrow, baculi 5.9X as long as length of coxites; coxites completely divided in ventral view and partially in dorsal view; stylus 0.18X as long as coxites, apex with three setae; tenth sternite reduced, slender, apex lanceolate and located between coxites; bursa copulatrix well developed, without sclerites; two globular and not very sclerotized spermathecae.
Type locality. Ivory Coast, Tai Region, neighborhood of Gouleako Village
Geographic Distribution. Tropical rainforests of western Africa.
Etymology. vix from Latin, meaning with difficulty, barely.
description: Published as part of Costa, Cleide, Vanin, Sergio A. & Rosa, Simone P., 2014, Description of a new genus and species of Cerophytidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Africa with a cladistic analysis of the family, pp. 248-260 in Zootaxa 3878 (3) on pages 252-253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/228856