Gonaphodioides newtoni, Dellacasa & Dellacasa & Gordon, 2012

Gonaphodioides newtoni new species

( Fig. 84-88 View Figure 78-88 )

Type locality. 43 Km SW Huejutla, m 1500, Tlanchinol, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Type repository. Canadian National Collection, Ottawa, Canada.

Description. Length 4.0-4.5 mm; moderately elongate, rather convex, shiny, glabrous. Dark brown; clypeal margin, anterior angles of pronotum and elytral apex paler; legs dark reddish-brown; antennal club dirty testaceous. Head with epistome gibbous medially, evenly, not closely, distinctly punctured; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, subangulose at sides, rather thickly bordered, edge glabrous, anteriorly moderately reflexed; genae obtuse, not ciliate, protruding from the eyes; frontal suture obsolete; front somewhat more sparsely punctured than epistome. Pronotum transverse, convex, simply, almost evenly, rather closely punctured; punctation somewhat denser on sides; lateral margins straight, faintly sinuate inwardly before hind angles, rather thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obliquely truncate, truncation slightly sinuate inwardly; base feebly bisinuate. Scutellum somewhat elongate, superficially alutaceous and sparsely punctured on basal half. Elytra elongate, subparallelsided, minutely denticulate at shoulder; striae fine, superficially, not closely punctured, not crenulate; interstriae almost flat, irregularly, sparsely finely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur shorter than first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment as long as following four segments combined. Male: head and pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex and less densely punctured; metasternal plate with median longitudinal groove deeper; aedeagus Fig. 87-88 View Figure 78-88 . Female: head and pronotum relatively less transverse, more convex and more densely punctured; metasternal plate with median longitudinal groove superficial.

Type material. MEXICO: Hidalgo: 43 Km SW Huejutla, Tlanchinol , m 1500, 14.VI-04.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., cloud forest FIT ( male holotype , allotype and 7 paratypes, CNCI , 2 paratypes, DCGI) ; 3 mi. N Tlanchinol , 5200’, 11.VII.1973, leg. Newton A. ( 4 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; 10 mi. NE Rancho Viejo , 5100’, 29.VII.1971, leg. Newton A. ( 4 paratypes, CNCI) ; Puebla: 4 mi. E Tezuitlán , 5000’, 14.VII.1971. leg. Newton A. ( 4 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; San Luis Potosí: 13 mi. W Xilitla , 4800’, 28.VI.1971, leg. Newton A. ( 9 paratypes, DCGI, CNCI) ; 20 Km W Xilitla , m 1600, 12.VI-06.VIII.1983, leg. Peck S. & J., cloud forest ( 1 paratype, CNCI) .

Distribution. Mexico ( Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosí).

Etymology. Named in honor of Alfred Newton, curator of entomology, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois.

Bionomics. All specimens of the type series were collected in late spring; some of them in cloud forest by flight interception trap.