Mycetocylapus, POPPIUS, 1914

MYCETOCYLAPUS POPPIUS View in CoL View at ENA

Mycetocylapus Poppius, 1914: 125 View in CoL (type species Mycetocylapus major Poppius, 1914 View in CoL by original designation); Carvalho, 1957: 32 (catalogue); Schuh,

1995: 31 (catalogue); Gorczyca, 2006: 52 (catalogue); Wolski, 2010: 7 (redescription).

Diagnosis

Mycetocylapus is recognized by the following characters: small evaporative area of the metathoracic scent glands, not reaching base of hind coxa ( Figs 6R, 9G); labial segment I without subdivision ( Figs 6H, 9I); labial segment II subdivided apically by fold ( Fig. 6I); labial segment I shorter than pronotal length; antenna longer than body; labrum without spines; antennal fossa almost adjacent to eye margin ( Figs 9A, D); calli impunctate or with shallow punctures ( Figs 6A, B, 9B, E); calli covering more than half of pronotum ( Figs 6A, B, 9B, E); pronotum without pit between calli ( Figs 6A, B, 9B, E); head in male distinctly declivous ( Figs 6F, 9A).

Remarks

Po p p i u s (1 9 1 4) d e s c r i b e d M y c e t o c y l a p u s t o accommodate two new species, Mycetocylapus major and Mycetocylapus minor from the same locality in Los Baños, the Philippines. Carvalho (1956) described a third species, Mycetocylapus pacificus Carvalho, 1956 , from Micronesia. Wolski (2010) placed this genus in the Rhinocylapus complex. Our phylogenetic analyses confirm this position.

We have examined Mycetocylapus major and Mycetocylapus minor and consider them conspecific and synonymize them herein (see discussion for Mycetocylapus minor ). Our new species, Mycetocylapus alexeyi , is similar to Mycetocylapus major , and our phylogenetic analysis established these latter two species as sister with high support. Although we did not examine Mycetocylapus pacificus , it is similar to other Mycetocylapus species based on the observations of Wolski (2010).

MYCETOCYLAPUS ALEXEYI NAMYATOVA &