Mecistostethus loretoensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Histeridae
Genus: Mecistostethus
Name
Mecistostethus loretoensis (Bruch, 1932) comb. n. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Tarsilister loretoensis Bruch, 1932: 279.
Type material
Holotype, of undetermined sex: «Tarsilister loretoensis Bruch (written by Bruch) C. BRUCH DETERM. (printed)» (label white with black frame) / «Nido de Pachycondyla striata F Sm» (handwritten) / «Typus» (handwritten) / «Est. Exp. Loreto (Misiones - Arg.) [27.32°S, 55.53°W] Dr. A.A. Oglobin» (printed) ; reverse: «20.ix.1931» (handwritten), MACN. Other material: 1 male, locality as for type, 15.VIII.1932, with Pachycondyla striata, MACN; 1 female: BRAZIL: Sta. Catarina: Nova Teutonia, 27°11'S, 52°23'W, Fritz Plaumann (no date), FMNH-INS0000069073.
Diagnosis
Length 2.4-2.6mm, width 2.0–2.1mm (n=3); body completely lacking microsculpture; frontal stria/carina complete; frons and epistoma without microsculpture; anterior submarginal pronotal stria long, ends strongly recurved (Fig. 3A); pronotum with >10 discal setae, scattered on disk without well-defined submarginal row (Fig. 3A); lateral pronotal punctures numerous and conspicuous; prosternal striae present (Fig. 4A); metaventral stria complete at middle (Fig. 4A); elytral stria 1 not continuous, effaced at middle (despite presence of setae); elytral stria 2 barely abbreviated at base; male not examined.
Distribution
Known from Atlantic forest areas of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and subtropical forests near the Rio Paraná in Misiones province, Argentina.
Remarks
The type collection from the nest of Pachycondyla striata (Ponerinae) provides the only known host record for this genus.
Taxon Treatment
- Caterino, M; Tishechkin, A; Dégallier, N; 2012: A revision of the genus Mecistostethus Marseul (Histeridae, Histerinae, Exosternini) ZooKeys, 213: 63-78. doi
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