Guatemalteca virgen
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae
Genus: Guatemalteca
Name
Guatemalteca virgen Erwin – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Guatemalteca virgen Erwin, Terry L., 2004, Zootaxa 537: 12-14.
Materials Examined
Holotype. Male. COSTA RICA: Heredia, 16.0 km SSE La Virgen, 1050–1150 m, 10 ° 16 ' N, 084° 05' W, LN527381,257085, April (Proyecto Alas Transect) (INBioOET: INB0003214696). Derivation of specific name. The specific epithet, virgen in Spanish, is used as a noun in apposition based on the type locality which is near La Virgen, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Description
Common name. Virgin cloud forest carabid. Description. (Fig. 7). Size moderately small: ABL = 4.6 to 5.6 mm, SBL = 4.4 to 5.1 mm, TW = 1.8 to 2.3 mm. Color: Brown; appendages testaceous. Luster: Very shiny with iridescent reflections. Microsculpture: Very fine transverse lines. Head: Narrow, narrower than pronotum and highly convex; eyes medium, not produced; antennae with gradually expanded terminal antennomeres. Prothorax: Pronotum markedly cordiform, hind angles rounded with a very small setiform dent. Pterothorax: Flight wings fully developed. Legs: Normal for lachnophorines. Abdomen: Normal for lachnophories, except vestiture of female restricted to sterna 3–6. Male genitalia: Phallus remarkably small, flat and broad with no internal sclerites; left paramere markedly large (Fig. 8).
Dispersal potential. These beetles have been collected by the Parataxonomists associated with the ALAS Project in malaise traps, flight intercept traps, and at black lights, thus they are active dispersers. Way of life. A related species in Guatemala occurs along small streams under stones. In Ecuador, species are very active at night on wet open ground with mosses in cloud forests at 2200–2400 m.
Materials Examined
Other specimens examined.Paratypes: 59, COSTA RICA: Heredia, 16.0 km SSE La Virgen, 1050 – 1150 m, 10 ° 16 ' N, 0 84 °05' W, LN527381,257085, February, March, April (Proyecto Alas Transect)(INBioOET: 33 females, INB0003203405, INB0003205365, INB0003205366, INB0003209404, INB0003209509, INB0003209510, INB0003209587, INB0003210165, INB0003210288, INB0003210542, INB0003210543, INB0003210627, INB0003210836, INB0003210934, INB0003211576, INB0003211606, INB0003211607, INB0003211608, INB0003214516, INB0003214540, INB0003214713, INB0003214908, INB0003214968, INB0003214979, INB0003215010, INB0003215145, INB0003215208, INB0003215237, INB0003210482, INB0003214872, INB0003214917, INB0003209737, INB0003211335); 26 males, INB0003209508, INB0003205205, INB0003205312, INB0003209115, INB0003209562, INB0003209642, INB0003209737, INB0003210482, INB0003210483, INB0003210572, INB0003211335, INB0003214557, INB0003214612, INB0003214613, INB0003214794, INB0003214805, INB0003214834, INB0003214872, INB0003214917, INB0003214938, INB0003215050, INB0003215062, INB0003215126, INB0003215162, INB0003215256, INB0003215278, INB0003215383. Geographic distribution. (Fig. 13). Known only from one Costa Rica site at lower middle altitudes, but undoubtedly more widespread in Costa Rican cloud forests.
Description
Notes. See notes under genus description above. Members of this species are quite varied in size.
Taxon Treatment
- Erwin, Terry L.; 2004: The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panamá: Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 537: 12-14. doi
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