Macroscytus aquilus FROESCHNER

Macroscytus aquilus FROESCHNER

(Figs 36­37)

Macroscytus aquilus FROESCHNER, 1967: 17 ; LIS, 1995b: 144, 1996: 220.

DESCRIPTION

Body 7.78­8.01 mm in length, 4.46­4.65 mm in width, from piceous to black.

Head with dorsal surface impunctate; clypeus subapically without a pair of setigerous punctures; each paraclypeus submarginally with a single preocular setigerous puncture; ocular index 2.20­2.21; length of antennal segments (in mm): 0.36: 0.44: 0.45: 0.56, 5 th missing.

Anterior half of pronotal disc impunctate except for few scattered small punctures laterally and behind head; transverse discal impression behind calli absent; posterior half of disc with scattered small punctures; lateral margins of pronotum with 6 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing long hair­like setae. Anterior convexity of propleuron impunctate, except for a patch of small punctures; posterior convexity virtually impunctate; propleural depression with a few punctures.

Puncturation of scutellar disc sparse, especially well visible in apical third; punctures a little larger than those of pronotum.

Mesocorium almost evenly punctate; exocorium with punctures finer than those of scutellum; costa somewhat flattened, with a single setigerous puncture bearing long hair­like seta.

Legs unicolorous; male tibiae with weak basal emargination followed by 5­7 very small denticles; female hind tibiae simple.

Abdominal sterna almost impunctate, weakly and irregularly wrinkled laterally; each segment with a row of punctures along segmental suture, and a patch of small punctures anterior and posterior to spiracle.

Male genitalia as in Figs 36­37.

TYPE DATA

Holotype male: Bismarck Islands, New Ireland, Lemkanin ( ZMUC) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED

Holotype, and 1 paratype: Bismarck Archipelago: New Ireland, Lemkanin, 1 paratype ( ZMUC) .

DISTRIBUTION

Bismarck Archipelago (New Ireland).