Geotomus gracilipes SIGNORET, 1883

Geotomus gracilipes SIGNORET

Figs. 11 -14

Geotomus gracilipes SiGNORET, 1883 b: 213.

Moonta alexandria DISTANT, 1911 : 338, new synonym.

Geotomus alexandria: LIS 1996 : 216.

Diagnosis

Body shining, elongated, almost parallel-sided ( Fig. 11), its length 5.5-6.2 mm; head strongly narrowed anteriorly ( Fig. 12), its dorsal surface impunctate or almost impunctate, except for setigerous punctures; clypeus without subapical setigerous punctures; each paraclypeus with two primary setigerous punctures bearing long hair-like setae and one (sporadically two) submarginal short hair-like seta ( Fig. I 2); eyes small, ocular index about 3.6-4.4; pronotum weakly punctured, anterior half of a disc almost impunctate, the posterior with a broad band of scattered punctures, pronotal margins with a row of 5-7 submarginal setigerous punctures bearing long hair-like setae; scutellum punctured with punctures larger than those on pronotum and corium, puncturation of scutellar disc sparser than that of corium; costal margin with a single setigerous puncture bearing hair-like seta; propleuron almost impunctate, except for a medial row of coarse punctures in propleural depression; mesopleural evaporatorium with more or less visible polished wedge-shaped band posteriorly ( Fig. 13); paramere as in Fig. 14.

Type material examined

South Australia: lectotype female (designated by LIS, 1996: 217) of Geotomus gracilipes SIGNORET : Tielder, Adelaide , gracilipes ; Geotomus? gracilipes SIGN., Adelaide; Museum Leiden, Geotomus gracilipes SIGN. ; 66; holotypus ( NNML). Northern Territory: lectotype male (designated by LIS, 1996: 216) of Moonta alexandria DISTANT : Alexandria , N. Australia, W. Stalker, 1907-261; type; Moonta alexandria dist. type; Brit. Mus. Type No. Hem. 308 ( BMNH) . Paralectotype male of Moonta alexandria DISTANT : Alexandria, N. Australia, W. Stalker, 13-20.III.06, 1907-261; Moonta alexandria DISTANT (paratype) ( BMNH) .

Other material examined

New South Wales: 1 female, Moree. N.S.W., 29.XIl.1971, B. Cantrell (UQlC) ; Queensland: 1 male, Mt Moffatt NP., S.C. Qld., Dargonelly Rockhole , 20-27 Sept. 1986, Monteith, Yeates & Thompson ( QMB) ; I female, 20 km E ofThylungra , SW Qld., 22 Sept. 1983, G.B. Monteith ( QMB) ; 1 female, 2 ml W of Windorah , SW Qld., 10.IV.1971, G.B. Monteith ( QMB) ; 1 female, Birdsville, Qld ., 9.9.1979, G.R. Brown, collected at primus lamp ( ASCT) ; South Australia: 3 males 2 females, NE Corner, S. Australia, F. Parsons, Moonta alexandria, c/type R.C. Froeschner ( SAM) ; I female, S. Aust., Coward Springs , 9 Nov. 1966, at light, G.F. Gross ( SAM) ; 1 female, S. Aust., Farina , in creek bed, 27 Oct. 1970, G.F. Gross and E.G. Matthews, at light ( SAM) ; I male 2 females, Callabonna , A. Zietz ( SAM, UO) ; I female, Minnie Downs, N.E. corner of S. Aust. , L. Reese ( SAM) ; 2 males, S. Aust. , 32 km N. lnnaminka, 11 October 1987, at light, J.A. Forrest ( SAM, UO) ; Western Australia: I female, 8 m., SE Twins Stn., W.A., 26 Oct. 1953, N.B. Tindale ( SAM) .

Distribution

New South Wales (first record), Northern Territory, Queensland (first record), South Australia, Western Australia (first record).