Colombocricus fundipudens ( Karsch, 1881 ), 2025

Colombocricus fundipudens ( Karsch, 1881) gen. et comb. nov

Figs 1–3 View Fig View Fig View Fig , 8 View Fig

Spirobolus ( Rhinocricus) fundipudens Karsch, 1881: 78 .

Rhinocricus fundipudens View in CoL – Carl 1914: 879, fig. 106. — Marek et al. 2003: 56.

Type material

Holotype

COLOMBIA • ♂; Santa Marta; only gonopods and legs found; ZMB 711 View Materials ; ZMB.

Other material examined

COLOMBIA • 1 ♂; Santa Marta, Hacienda La Victoria ; [ 11°07'12.0" N, 74°04'55.2" W]; 1300 m a.s.l.; 10 Jul. 2015; CarBio Team leg.; ICN 1719 View Materials ; ICN GoogleMaps • 2 ♂♂; Bolívar, San Jacinto, Finca El Amanecer Gaitano ; [ 9°51'09.7" N, 75°10'32.3" W]; 314 m a.s.l; 12 Mar. 2017; L. Martínez leg.; ICN 3134 View Materials ; ICN. GoogleMaps

Redescription

Male (ICN 1719)

MEASUREMENTS. With 43 body rings plus telson. Total length 153 mm, maximum width of midbody body ring 13 mm.

COLORATION (in 70% alcohol) ( Fig. 1 View Fig ). General coloration greenish brown. Head light brown with labrum yellowish. Antennae and legs light brown. Median part of collum greenish brown, margins light brown. Meso- and metazonites greenish, posterior margins brown. Anterior portion of prozonites light. Telson greenish brown.

HEAD. Clypeus with two setiferous foveolae on each side. Eyes in rounded cluster in five rows of ommatidia, 6-6-5-4-3 (= 24), with excavated below eyes. Antennae short and slender, reaching back to body ring 3. Length of antennomeres: 1<2>3=4=5>6. Terminal antennomere very rounded with numerous sensory cones covered by bristles. Mandibular stipes (ms) excavated. Incisura lateralis open.

BODY RINGS. Collum (c) smooth. Ozopores starting at body ring 6. Scobinae concave, decreasing in size in posterior portion of body, disappearing in last rings.

LEGS. Legs with tarsal pads (tp) from third pair, decreasing in size posteriorly. Coxae of leg pairs 3–5 of male expanded into large process. Coxae of leg pairs 3–5 with pointed conic lobe; in leg pairs 6 and 7 the process similar but decreasing in size ( Fig. 1C View Fig ).

TELSON. Epiproct (ep) very short, not extended over paraprocts (pr). Hypoproct subtriangular ( Fig. 1E View Fig ).

GONOPODS. Anterior gonopod wider than long, with sternite (st) tongue-shaped; coxite (cx) short and wide, with terminal edge almost transverse, the median corner elongated to sharp point shorter than sternite. Telopodite (tl) longer than coxite and sternite, with well-developed pointed lobe (lb) projected laterally ( Figs 2A–B View Fig , 3A View Fig ). Posterior gonopod with telopodite broad at base, distally narrowing with excavation on femoral base. External branch (eb) spoon-shaped, dorsally covered the solenomere (sl) as cupula. Solenomere (sl) bifurcated into two short lanceolate processes, but with one (in) shorter almost invisible ( Figs 2C–D View Fig , 3B–C View Fig ).

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

Know from Santa Marta and Bolivar, Colombia ( Fig. 8 View Fig ).