Austrocyphon stylifer Zwick, 2013, sp. n

Autor: Zwick, Peter
Rok vydání: 2013
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5670482
Popis: Austrocyphon stylifer, sp. n. (Figs. 98���101) Type material. Holotype: ♂, Island Bend Kosciusko N.S.W. J.Armstrong Nov. 52 (ANIC). Paratypes: NSW: 1 ♂, Jenolan N.S.W. / Cyphon 8806 N.S. Wales (SAMA). TAS: 2 ♂, Launceston TAS. JAN. [year not given] C.Watts (SAMA; in 1959 J. Armstrong labelled these two specimens with an unpublished manuscript name). VIC: 1 ♂, Eltham, Vic. Wilson 6.9. 19 (MV; received as C. adelaidae). 3 ♂, VIC, Acheron R. at Narbethong, 27.9. 1972, P.Zwick (PZ) Habitus. BL 2.5���3.1mm, BL/BW 1.9. Almost as slender as A. stylatus, elongate, elytra largely parallel-sided. Brown, sides of pronotum more or less yellowish. Male. T 9 with postero-lateral slender claws deeply separated from median portion which resembles a fish tail. S 9 well sclerotized, three-lobed. Lateral lobes short, ovoid, with long apical setae, median lobe very long, medially a little widened, ending in a sharp narrow point. Penis slender, widest just before midlength. Trigonium slender, not nearly filling the foramen, centema a slender claw. The tegmen forms an oval base embracing the pala of the penis. The slender parameres are rolled like the spatha of an Arum -flower, medially with some microtrichia. Female. Not known. Etymology. From the Latin stylifer, somebody who carries a stylus.
Published as part of Zwick, Peter, 2013, Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) 4. Two new genera, Austrocyphon and Tasmanocyphon, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 3706 (1) on pages 34-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3706.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/284605
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