Pseudomops guerinianus ( Saussure, 1862 )

Pseudomops guerinianus ( Saussure, 1862) View in CoL

( Figs. 2 a-2c; 6a-6J; 10a-10x; 14a-14e; 19)

Thyrsocera gueriniana Saussure 1862: 168 (D? head lost) [sp. n.] [ Mexico (LT)]. Brunner von Wattenwy 1865: 126, 412. Scudder 1868: 81. Saussure 1870: 50 (Male?). Saussure and Zehntner 1893: 32. Finot 1897: 187. Scudder 1901: 325.

Thyrsocera guerinianus Saussure. In : Saussure 1864: 124 (?) Le Mexique.

Pseudomops Gueriniana Saussure. In View in CoL : Walker 1868: 78 [comb. n.] [ Mexico]. Scudder 1901: 276. Kirby 1904: 76. Shelford 1906: 259 (?) [ Mexico]. Shelford 1908 4.

Pseudomops guerinianus Saussure. In View in CoL : Princis 1969: 952. Estrada-Álvarez 2013: 276.

Pseudomops nigrimacullis Fisk 1977: 272 ; Fig. 8 (D female) [sp. n.] [ Mexico, Chiapas, Ocozocoautla, Cueva del Aguacero (LT), 530 m] (new synonymy). Reddell 1981: 206. Roth 2003: 71. Hoffmann et al. 2004: 275. Estrada-Álvarez 2013: 277. Palacios-Vargas et al. 2015: 58.

Pseudomops cinctus View in CoL [ID err.] not P. cinctus (Burmeister) View in CoL . Sormani 2007: 20, 33.

Brief diagnosis. Males with two lateral patches in T-4 ( Figs. 6a, 10b). Females, shape of the paraprocts ( Figs. 6J, 10w); separates this species from P. cinctus .

Variations. It presents a general coloration from honey to brown tones, the pronotum has at least seven more or less typified forms, with an internal gradient; the tone of the abdomen and legs is widely variable from amber tones to ash tones; at least four color forms were found in the reviewed material.

Form saussurei ( Fig. 14b): The holotype female agrees with this form, the body tone is almost amber, legs almost black, the pronotum yellowish with a black macula near the posterior border.

Form aberrante ( Fig. 14c): Body and leg tones similar to the form saussurei, the pronotum with distinctive disc macules.

Form confusa ( Fig. 14d): Similar to the form saussurei, but with darker tones.

Form pyriformis ( Fig. 14e): Shades similar to a form confusa, but the pronotum with a flame-shaped pronotal macula.

Type material. 1 holotype female Thyrsocera gueriniana Saussure, 1862 . Mexique, col. Guerin[=Guérin-Méneville] [ MHNG], revised. (not in MNHN sensu Shelford 1906: 259 [The type is in the Paris Museum]). Pseudomops nigrimacullis Fisk, 1977 . 1 holotype female Mexico, Chiapas, Ocozocoautla, Cueva del Aguacero (LT), 530 m; not found.

Allotype male: México, Veracruz, Mpty. Xalapa, Santuario del Bosque de Niebla (96°55’24.92”W, 19°32’16.25”N, 1460 msnm, bosque mesófilo de montaña); Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. Col., colecta manual; V/2005 [ IEXA]. GoogleMaps

Examined material (n=36: 14 males, 17 females, 5 not sexed). MÉXICO, Chiapas. 1 female, Tuxtla Gutierrez , Chiapas; 24-V-66 69401 ; col. Anonymous [ CNIN]. Veracruz. 3 males, México, Veracruz , Mpty. Xalapa, Santuario del Bosque de Niebla (96°55’24.92”W, 19°32’16.25”N, 1460 msnm, mesophyll forest of mountain), manual; -/ V/2005 GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [ IEXA]. 2 males same locality; mayo 2004 GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [ IEXA]. 1 male, 1 female same locality; mayo 2004 GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [ IEXA]. 3 males, 8 females same locality; mayo 2004 GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [ IEXA]. 3 males, 4 females same locality; mayo 2005 GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [ IEXA]. 2 females same locality GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. [ IEXA]. 3 males, 1 male same locality GoogleMaps ; col. Sormani, H.C.G. and Ángeles, V.J.A. [ IEXA]. Not sexed [not abdomen or antennas] México, Veracruz, Est. Biol. Los Tuxtlas Alt. 132 m, 18.5°86’17’’N, 95°72’17’’O ; col. A. Zaldivar et al. [ CNIN]. GUATEMALA. 1 female, Cunnen , Guate., 6000 ft.; Aug. 11. 47 ; col. C & P Vaurie [F. Johnson Donor] [ AMNH _IZC_00398287] .

Note. RBINS material determined as Pseudomops guerinianus by Saussure in Vanschuytbroeck 1970: 21 [2 exemplaires: Thereopolis: Coll. C. Van Volxem (photos supplied by Camille Locatelli, RBINS)], it does not belong to P. guerinianus , it really belongs to Pseudomops magnifica Rocha e Silva, 1973 (Sonia M. Lopes F. (†), MNRJ determination), thereby establishing new record for this Brazilian species.

Distribution. MÉXICO, Chiapas, Mpty. Ocozocoautla (Cueva del del Aguacero); Mpty. Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Tuxtla Gutiérrez). Veracruz, Mpty. Xalapa (Santuario del Bosque de Niebla) and Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas. GUATEMALA, Quiché, Cunén ( Fig. 19).

Biogeography. Neotropical, endemic in Mexican Gulf province (mg); with penetration into Chiapas (chi), at an altitude of 513-1,827 m ( Fig. 19).

Bionomics. This species was collected in the vicinity of streams, on the ground.

Interceptus Group

Small species (12.0- 19.75 mm), sexual dimorphism in the antennas absent, both sexes with slightly hirsute antenna and annulli posterior to the hirsute third; males with T-3 and T-4 tergites with two central tufts, T-8 with two whisker-shaped piliform strand structures, conspicuously smaller than in the Cinctus group, right paraproctum with posterior finger-like projection; R2 with a simple or bifid spine.

Composition ( USA and Central America). Pseudomops interceptus ( Burmeister, 1838) , Pseudomops septentrionalis Hebard, 1917 , Pseudomops gratus Rehn, 1903 .