Eucurtiopsis corbarai Tishechkin 2009, n. sp.

• Main Author: Tishechkin, Alexey K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Histeridae; Eucurtiopsis; Eucurtiopsis corbarai; Cumberland Peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5474965; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC521B62DC49FFC4FC85FBA0193A0647

Eucurtiopsis corbarai n. sp. (Fig. 5) HOLOTYPE. — “ VANUATU: Santo I., Cumberland Peninsula, Saratsi Range at 14.9626°S 166.6485°E. 600 m Flight intercept FL6B-5. 9-10 Nov 2006. A. K.Tishechkin AT648 / HOLOTYPE Eucurtiopsis corbarai sp. n. A. Tishechkin des. 2008”, ♀ point-mounted (MNHN). PARATYPES (3). — Same locality and date as the holotype, flight intercept trap, A. K. Tishechkin coll., 1 ♀ (coll. AKT). — Saratsi Range, 14.9657°S, 166.6521°E, 700 m, flight intercept trap, 30.XI-1.XII.2006, A. K.Tishechkin coll., 1 ♀ (MNHN). — Saratsi Range, 14.9667°S, 166.6560°E, 900 m, flight intercept trap, 16.XI.2006, A. K. Tishechkin coll., also bears the following label “DNA Extraction TAK-0003. May 2009 Baton Rouge”, 1 ♀ (MNHN). ETYMOLOGY. — Th e species honours Bruno Corbara of Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, a true leader of the IBISCA Team, in appreciation of his inspiring enthusiasm for bringing people together to study poorly known tropical insect communities and great moments of joint fieldwork across the globe. DESCRIPTION L: 1.36; W: 0.90; E/Pn L: 1.93; E/Pn W: 1.56; Pn W/L: 1.18; E L/W: 1.05; Pr/Py: 0.89; Sterna: 0.42, 0.08, 0.37; Tibiae: 0.36, 0.42, 0.46. Body (Fig. 5A) elongate, rufescent brown, with antennae and legs somewhat paler, prothorax substantially narrower than elytra. Frons (Fig. 5D) 1.5 times longer than wide, sides weakly arcuate, incised at antennal bases, narrowed anteriorly, covered with deep, dense, mostly elongate punctures, with two parallel, longitudinal rows consisting of four irregular blunt tubercles arranged into indistinct ridges, each tubercle with a cluster of long branched setae; labrum weakly convex, semicircular, with few setae, punctation similar to that on frons; mandibles strongly bent, with long narrow tips, with few setae and small punctures on smooth outer edges; maxillar palpi with three palpomeres, labial palpi with two palpomeres, mentum apparently present as separate sclerite, separating suture present at least in laterobasal areas; antennal scape elongate ...