taxonID	type	description	language	source
E52C87D73D3FFF9DFF744A51290AFA7C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Species of Eucinetus differ from those of Noteucinetus in the more elongate body with a somewhat less convex upper surface, elytra with transverse strigulae (Figs 77 – 88), slightly incrassate to subserrate antennae (Figs 4, 10, 14, 18, 22, 25, 36), lateral arms of metendosternite forming an angle of less than 45 degrees with apical muscle discs not circular (Fig. 94), prosternal process not widened apically, mesoventrite with slender cavity and notched posterior edge (Fig. 101), hind wings either fully developed or absent, sternite IX in male elongate with rounded apex and slender basal strut (Figs 114 – 116) and parameres as long as or slightly longer than penis (Figs 128 – 139). The Holarctic genus Nycteus may be distinguished from both Eucinetus and Noteucinetus by the elongate head with antennal insertions and antennal grooves completely exposed, the U-shaped frontoclypeal suture and the anterolateral angle of the mesepimeron acute. In both Eucinetus and Noteucinetus, the head is much shorter and broader with antennal insertions and antennal grooves more or less concealed (Figs 34 – 35), the frontoclypeal suture is straight and transverse with a distinct angle at each end and the anterolateral angle of the mesepimeron is never sharply acute. Note. Eucinetus is a widely distributed genus with 21 described species from North to South America, Eurasia, Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and New Zealand; it is likely, however, that numerous other species remain to be described from various regions. The Australian fauna is diverse and only partially described in the present treatment. Four winged species are described here, although Eucinetus lorien and Eucinetus similis may represent geographic variants, and specimens of Eucinetus lorien from the type locality in NSW (Figs 46, 58, 133) differ slightly from those from northern QLD (Figs 48, 57, 132). There are almost certainly more wingless species to be described, especially from southern coastal and montane NSW, but these will have to await a more thorough study.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 2, 35, 40, 52, 74, 77, 95, 104, 128)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking hind wings and a notched inner eye margin. The species differs from E. brindabellae, E. dorrigo, E. minutus and E. tasmaniae in having a red pronotum and black elytra, from E. bicolorellus in being longer than 2.00 mm with a black head and darker undersurface, from E. protibialis in the much darker undersurface, shorter, broader terminal antennomere and unmodified fore legs in the male and from E. limitaris in the broadly rounded terminal antennomere, slightly smaller size (usually less than 2.4 mm) and broader body (less than 1.80 times as combined elytral width).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	description	Description. Length 2.00 – 2.50 (2.30 ± 0.15) mm; body 1.66 – 1.83 (1.78) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.61 – 0.68 (0.64) times elytral width. Colour of pronotum red; head, scutellar shield and elytra black; undersurfaces and legs dark brown to black, antennae usually brown and palps yellow. Head 0.92 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.17 times distance between them; inner edges of eyes not notched. Labrum 0.41 times as long as wide; sides straight, converging to subtruncate and minutely crenulate apex. Antenna about 1.7 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere 0.80 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.57 times as long as 10 th, 1.38 times as long as wide and broadly rounded at apex. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea slightly wider than lacinia, not widened apically. Apical maxillary palpomere subulate, 2.00 times as long as wide, with short aciculate tip. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.00 times as long as wide with moderately long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.386 – 0.52 (0.45) times as long as wide. Scutellar shield 0.19 times as wide as pronotum, 0.54 times as long as wide and apically acute. Elytra 1.34 – 1.52 (1.44) times as long as combined width and 3.53 – 5.50 (4.29) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 77. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.58 times as long as mesepimeron, subtriangular, with straight anterior edge, slightly curved inner and outer edges and narrowly rounded posterior angle. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.6 times as long as posterior edge, which is weakly triemarginate. Protibia in male slender and basal protarsomeres not expanded. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.45 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner spur very slightly longer, parallel-sided with a blunt, cleft apex. Sternite VII in male 0.75 times as long as wide with weakly emarginate apex; sternite IX 2.18 times as long as wide with basal strut 0.46 times as long as body of sternite. Parameres at about middle about as wide as penis at same point, the apex of each weakly curved mesally; penis gradually narrowed to subacute apex, ending well before parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 37.43 S 145.41 E VIC Mt. Donna Buang, 1200 m N of Warburton 810 26 Jan. – 11 Feb. 1987 A. Newton & M. Thayer / wet scler. – Noth. cunn. FMND # 87 - 216 flight interc. (window) trap ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067870). Paratypes. VIC: BawBaw Alpine Res., 1.2 km NE Neulynes Mill (37 ° 51 ’ S, 146 ° 15 ’ E), 1145 m, 816, 29. i – 10. ii. 1987, wet scler. Noth. cunn., FMHD # 87 - 238, flight intercept trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Cement Creek, 5 km N Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 42 ’ E), 17. i. 1978, berl. log & leaf litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Erinunda Plateau, Gap Rd., 2.5 km E Bonang Hwy. (37 ° 15 S, 148 ° 47 ’ E), 820 m, 924, 11 – 24. ii. 1993, E. nitens / E. regnans forest, FMHD # 93 - 79, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC, FMNH); Kallista, Sherbrooke For. Park, 400 – 500 m, wet scler. for., 15. i. 1980, berl. forest leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC); Lake Mt. Alpine Res., E Marysville, Gerraty’s (37 ° 31 S, 145 ° 52 E), 1330 m, 823, 5. ii. 1987, wet scler. for. FMHD # 87 - 256, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Lind N. P., Eucre Valley at Olive Branch Crk. (37 ° 34 ’ S, 148 ° 57 E), 140 m, 923, riparian forest, 25. ii. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 118, berlese leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Lind N. P., Eucre Valley at Olive Branch Crk. (37 ° 34 ’ S, 148 ° 57 E), 140 m, 923, riparian forest, 25. ii. 1993, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Buffalo N. P., Eurobin Creek (36 ° 43 ’ S, 146 ° 50 ’ E), 450 m, 806, wet scler. forest, 23. i – 12. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 203, flight interc. (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Donna Buang, 1200 m, 11 – 17. i. 1980, Eucalyptus - Nothofagus forest, lichens & moss on live Nothofagus cunnnghami, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, FMNH); Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m, 910, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, wet scler. Noth. cunn. FMHD # 87 - 216, flight interc. (window) trap. A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m, 910, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, wet scler. Noth. cunn. FMHD # 87 - 219, flight interc. (window) trap. A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m, 810, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, wet scler. Noth. cunn. FMHD # 87 - 218, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Worth N. P., Trevorrow’s Mill (38 ° 17 ’ S, 146 ° 00 ’ E), 300 m, 815, 28. i – 10. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 35, flight interc. trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Myrtle Gully Res., NW Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 38 ’ E), 1000 m, 819, 30. i – 9. ii. 1987, Noth cunn. & Euc. regnans, FMHD # 87 - 247, flight interc. trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Myrtle Gully Res., NW Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 38 ’ E), 1000 m, 819, 30. i – 9. ii. 1987, Noth cunn. & Euc. regnans, FMHD # 87 - 249, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC); Tanjil Bren, 6.1 km ESE (37 ° 50 S, 146 ° 12 ’ E), 590 m, 818, 29. i – 10. ii. 1987, wet scler. Forest, FMHD # 87 - 246, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Tarra-Bulga N. P., Tarra Valley, nr. picnic area (38 ° 27 ’ S, 146 ° 32 ’ E), 340 m, 928, cool temperate rainf., FMHD # 93 - 87, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Warburton, 2.2 km NE on Acheron Way (37 ° 44 S, 145 ° 43 ’ E), 320 m, 931, 15 – 27. ii. 1993, Eucalyptus regnans forest w / Acacia, FMHD # 93 - 99, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (2, ANIC); Warburton, 2.2 km NE on Acheron Way (37 ° 44 ’ S, 145 ° 43 ’ E), 320 m, 931, 15. ii. 1993, Eucalyptus regnans forest w / Acacia, FMHD # 93 - 101, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Eastern VIC.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Collected by pyrethrin knockdown, in flight-intercept / trough traps and in berlesates of sifted leaf and log litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3FFF9CFF744DBE2F77F830.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin bi, two, and color, color.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	description	(Figs 3 – 4, 39, 53, 78, 105, 121, 129)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It differs from E. minutus, E. dorrigo, E. brindabellae and E. tasmaniae in having a red pronotum and black elytra. It differs from E. bicolor and E. limitaris in having a red head, somewhat smaller body (usually less than 2.00 mm) and from the latter in having a broadly rounded terminal antennomere. It differs from E. protibialis, another small red and black species, in lacking the modified male fore legs and the distinctive aedeagus.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	description	Description. Length 1.80 – 2.10 (1.89 ± 0.11) mm; body 1.72 – 1.91 (1.82) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.58 – 0.64 (0.61) times elytral width. Colour of pronotum and scutellar shield red; elytra black; undersides usually reddish anteriorly and black posteriorly; legs yellowish-brown to reddish-brown. Head 0.85 times as long as wide. Distance across eyes 1.45 times distance between them; inner edge of eye not notched. Labrum 0.63 times as long as wide; apex weakly emarginate. Antenna about 1.92 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere equal in length to 4 th; 11 th antenomere 1.40 times as long as 10 th, 1.90 times as long as wide and broadly rounded at apex (Fig. 39). Mandibular mola reduced. Galea slightly wider than lacinia, barely widened subapically; apical maxillary palpomere subulate, 3.0 times as long as wide, with short aciculate tip. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.0 times as long as wide with long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.43 – 0.49 (0.46) times as long as wide. Scutellar shield 0.22 times as wide as pronotum, 0.65 times as long as wide and apically acute. Elytra 1.37 – 1.50 (1.45) times as long as wide and 3.64 – 4.17 (3.92) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 78. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.60 times as long as mesepimeron, about as long as wide, irregularly quadrate with posterior edge distinctly shorter than anterior edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 1.85 times as long as posterior edge, which is shallowly biemarginate. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.5 times as long as basal mesotarsomere; inner spur slightly longer, parallel-sided with blunt, cleft apex. Parameres at about middle 1.33 times as wide as penis at same point, the apex of each slightly curved mesally near broadly rounded apex; penis gradually narrowed to subacute apex, ending well before parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 41.11 S 148.00 E TAS, Mt. Michael, 740 m, 27 Nov. 1989, pyrethrin knockdown, tree 2, Tube 182, R. Coy coll. ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067871). Paratypes. TAS: Celery Top Islands, Bathurst Harbour (43 ° 22 ’ S, 146 ° 09 ’ E), 7. xii. 1990 – 15. i. 1991, ANIC FIT 1148, closed forest, E. Nielsen, T. Edwards (1, ANIC); Celery Top Islands, Bathurst Harbour (43 ° 22 ’ S, 146 ° 09 ’ E), 28. viii – 28. xi. 1991, ANIC FIT 1203, closed forest, E. Nielsen, T. Edwards (1, ANIC); Claytons, Bathurst Harbour (43 ° 22 ’ S, 146 ° 08 ’ E), 7. xii. 1990 – 15. i. 1991, ANIC FIT 1149, closed forest (1, ANIC); Florentine Valley, 29 km WNW Maydena on Eleven Rd., 460 m, 1.6. ii. 1980, berlese, leaf litter. A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, FMNH); Hartz Mts. N. P., Hartz Rd. 740 m, 8 – 10. ii. 1980, berlesed from leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, FMNH); Hellyer Gorge, 15 mi. N of Waratah, 2 – 4. ii. 1967, G. Monteith (3, QMB); Mt. Barrow via Launceston, 9 – 10. ii. 1967, G. Monteith (1, QMB); Mt. Field N. P. (42 ° 41 ’ S, 146 ° 43 ’ E), 160 – 240 m, 30.1 – 4. ii. 1980, ANIC Berlesate 671, moss on logs & trunks, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Mt. Mangana, Bruny I. (43 ° 21 ’ S, 147 ° 13 ’ E), 4. iv. 1989, J. Diggle, P. Greenslade (3, ANIC); Mt. Michael (41 ° 11 ’ S, 148 ° 00 ’ E), 740 m, 22 – 29. xi. 1989, yellow pans, H. Mitchell, R. Coy (1, ANIC); Mt. Michael (41 ° 11 ’ S, 148 ° 00 ’ E), 740 m, 26 – 27. xi. 1989, pyrethrum knockdown, R. Coy (6, ANIC, MVM); Mt. Michael (41 ° 11 ’ S, 148 ° 00 ’ E), 740 m, 28. xi. 1989, suction, Tube 245, R. Coy (1, ANIC); Mt. Michael (41 ° 11 ’ S, 148 ° 00 ’ E), 740 m, 29. xi. 1989, litter, Tune 203, H. Mitchell (1, ANIC); Mt. Victoria (41 ° 20 ’ S, 147 ° 50 ’ E), 900 m, 23 – 25. xi. 1989, pyrethrum knockdown, R. Coy, H. Mitchell (6, ANIC, MVM); Mt. Wedge, 7 km NebyE (42 ° 49 ’ S, 146 ° 22 ’ E), 550 m, 3. ii. 1980, ANIC Berlesate 670, litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Mt. Wellington, Fern Tree, 1. x. 1981, ANIC Berlesate 907, G. Bornemissza (2, ANIC); Peters Link Rd. (41 ° 08 ’ S, 148 ° 07 ’ E), 20 – 25. ii. 1993, pit, J. Trueman etc. (1, ANIC); Willie’s Saddle, 9 km W of Geeveston, 310 m, 8 – 10. ii. 1980, berlesate leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, FMNH).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from TAS.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens collected by pyrethrin knockdown, in berlesates from sifted leaf litter, logs and moss, in yellow pans and flight intercept / trough traps.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3DFF9FFF7448C228A5F877.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin bi, two, color, color and the diminutive suffix ellus.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	description	(Figs 5 – 8, 41, 54, 67, 76, 79, 94, 97 – 98, 123, 130)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It differs from E. minutus in its larger size (greater than 2.0 mm), more elongate body and lighter colour, from E. dorrigo in having the apical antennomere less than twice as long as wide, the apical maxillary palpomere gradually narrowed apically with aciculate tip in center and parameres not outwardly bowed. From E. tasmaniae, it differs in having the apical antennomere more than 1.6 times as long as wide, the third antennomere distinctly shorter than the fourth, the sides of the elytra more strongly curved, the upper surfaces more distinctly curved in lateral view and the colour somewhat darker.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	description	Description Length: 2.00 – 2.20 (2.10 ± 0.07) mm; body 1.71 – 1.84 (1.76) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.62 – 0.68 (0.65) times combined elytral width. Colour of pronotum reddish-brown, scutellar shield and elytra yellowish-brown, head and pterothorax dark brown, abdomen usually somewhat lighter, legs dark brown, antennae and palps yellow. Head 0.79 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.39 times distance between them; inner margin of eye not notched. Labrum 0.67 times as long as wide; sides moderately curved, apex slightly emarginate. Antenna about 1.86 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere 1.04 times as long as 4 th; antenomere 11 1.45 times as long as 10, 1.67 times as long as wide and irregularly, broadly rounded at apex. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea and lacinia about equal in width; galea widest at middle, narrowed apically. Apical maxillary palpomere subulate, 2.63 times as long as wide, with aciculate tip short and off centre. Apical labial palpomere subulate, with long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.39 – 0.47 (0.42) times as long as wide; prosternal process narrowly rounded at apex. Scutellar shield 0.20 times as wide as pronotum, and 0.73 times as long as wide and apically acute. Elytra 1.40 – 1.50 (1.43) times as long as combined width and 3.87 – 475 (4.38) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 79. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.73 times as long as mesepimeron, roughly triangular with curved, asymmetrical mesal and lateral edges and apex with distinct notch. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.0 times as long as posterior edge, which is shallowly emarginate. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.58 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner one about equal in length, parallelsided with a blunt, cleft apex. Parameres at about middle slightly wide than penis at same point, each one barely curved mesally and broadly rounded at apex; penis with sides gradually converging to subacute apex, extending to a point well before parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 35.22 S 148.50 E Blundells Ck. 3 km E of Piccadilly Circus, 850 m, ACT Oct. 1985, Weir, Lawrence, Johnson ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067872). Paratypes. ACT: Blundell’s Creek (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 50 ’ E), 21. xii. 1988, ex rotten log, J. Lawrence, W. Dressler, M. Hansen (1, ANIC); Blundell’s Creek, 3 km E of Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 50 ’ E), 850 m, i – x. 1985, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (22, ANIC, QMB); Blundell’s Creek, 3 km E of Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 50 ’ E), ii – ix. 1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (7, ANIC); Blundell’s Creek, 3 km E of Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 50 ’ E), vi. 1984, ANIC Berlesate 1000, open forest, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (2, ANIC); Blundell’s Creek Rd., Brindabella Ra., 1. ix. 1984, ANIC Berl. 1009, leaf litter, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Mt. Aggie, 3 km N, 1 – 21. ii. 1979, gutter trap, D. Rentz (4, ANIC); Mt. Gingera, 1 km N (35 ° 33 ’ S, 148 ° 47 ’ E), 18. ii. 1981, ANIC Berlesate 699, moss, A. A. Calder (2, ANIC); Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 48 ’ E), 1240 m, i – xii. 1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (34, ANIC, QMB, MVM. FMNH); Wombat Creek, 6 km NE of Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 19 ’ S, 148 ° 51 ’ E), 750 m, i – ix. 1985, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (16, ANIC); Wombat Creek, 6 km NE of Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 19 ’ S, 148 ° 51 ’ E), 750 m, I, xii. 1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (2, ANIC); Wood’s Res., 19. viii. 1984, ANIC Berlesate 1008, fungi and pine litter, J. F. Lawrence (2, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	distribution	Distribution. holotype and paratype specimens were all found in the ACT, but the species is likely to occur in adjacent portions of NSW and VIC.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens collected primarily in flight intercept window / trough traps, but also in rotten wood, moss and forest litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D3CFF9EFF7448C22806F854.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the name of the Brindabella Range in the ACT.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	description	(Figs 9 – 12, 42, 55, 70, 80, 91, 103, 115 – 116, 143 – 147)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It differs from E. minutus, E. bicolorellus, E. bicolor, E. limitaris and E. protibialis in having the pronotum reddishbrown and the elytra yellowish-brown and from E. brindabellae and E. tasmaniae in the somewhat smaller size (less than 2.0 mm), apical antennomere more than twice as long as wide, apical maxillary palpomere obliquely truncate apically with aciculate tip at one edge and parameres distinctly bowed outwardly.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	description	Description. Length: 1.70 – 1.90 (1.81 ± 0.08) mm; body 1.78 – 1.88 (1.83) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.61 – 0.69 (0.66) times combined elytral width. Colour of head, pronotum and scutellar shield reddish-brown, elytra yellowish-brown, undersurfaces reddish-brown anteriorly, lighter posteriorly; legs brown; antennae reddish-brown basally, yellow apically. Head 0.79 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.45 times as great as distance between them; inner edges of eyes not notched. Labrum 0.52 times as long as wide; sides weakly curved and converging to slightly emarginate apex. Antenna about 1.9 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere barely longer than 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.14 times as long as 10, 2.22 times as long as wide and irregularly, broadly rounded at apex. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea about as wide as lacinia, not widened apically. Apical maxillary palpomere about 2.6 times as long as wide, widest at middle, evenly slightly curved laterally and barely narrowed to apical sixth, then obliquely truncate, and giving rise near outer edge to a short, slender, aciculate process. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.07 times as long as wide, with long aciculate apical process. Pronotum 0.39 – 0.45 (0.41) times as long as wide; apex of prosternal process angulate. Scutellar shield 0.27 times as wide as pronotum, 0.81 times as long as wide at base and apically acute. Elytra 1.45 – 1.55 (1.50) times as long as combined width and 4.21 – 5.17 (4.60) times as long as pronotum; punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 80. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.48 times as long as mesepimeron and about as long as wide, asymmetrically triangular with straight anterior edge, strongly rounded inner edge and barely rounded outer edge, with apical notch at posterolateral corner. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 4.0 times as long as posterior edge, which is moderately deeply biemarginate. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.42 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner one about equal in length, slightly sinuate with a blunt, cleft apex. Parameres at about middle as wide as penis at same point, distinctly curved outwardly at about middle, with subtruncate apex. Penis with sides gradually converging to subacute apex. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 30.23 S, 152.44 E Dorrigo Nat. Pk. NSW 600 m 14 June 1982, L. Hill / Berlesate ANIC 838 closed forest litter ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067873). Paratypes. NSW: Beaury S. F. (28 ° 29 ’ S, 152 ° 28 ’ E), c 700 m, closed forest, 15 – 17. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 778, T. Weir, A. Calder (2, ANIC); Bruxner Floral Res., Sealy Lookout Rd., 5 km NW Coffs Harbour (30 ° 15 S, 143 ° 07 ’ E), 760 m, 19. vi. 1993, ANIC Berlesate 1660, cut wet sclerophyll Euc. grandis litter, D. S. Chandler (4, ANIC); Bruxner Park, Coffs Harbour, 200 m, 9. vii. 1978, leaf & log litter, S. & J. Peck (1, CNC); Dorrigo Nat. Park (30 ° 23 ’ S, 152 ° 44 ’ E), 600 m, 14. vi. 1982, ANIC Berlesate 838, forest litter, L. Hill (3, ANIC); Bruxner Park, Coffs Harbour, 25. vi. 1967, ANIC Berlesate 29, leafmould, R. W. Taylor (1, ANIC); Dorrigo Nat. Park, west end Blackbutt Track, 790 m, subtropical rainforest, 5. iii. 1980, berlesed from log & leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC); Dorrigo Nat. Park, east end Blackbutt Track, 710 m, subtropical rainforest, 28. ii – 5. iii. 1980, berlesed from log & leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Dorrigo Nat. Park, Dorrigo Mtn., 7 km SE Dorrigo (30 ° 23 ’ S, 152 ° 44 ’ E), 600 m, 23. v. 1993, ANIC Berlesate 1619, cut wet sclerophyll leaves & log litter, D. H. Candler (1, ANIC); Richmond Range S. F. (28 ° 48 ’ S, 152 ° 59 ’ E), c 600 m, closed forest, 13 – 14. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 774, T. Weir, A. Calder (5, ANIC); Roseberry St. For., Mt. Glennie, 30 km NNW Kyogle, 21. viii. 1982, SBP 109, log fungi & leaf litter, S. & J. Peck (2, ANIC, CNC); Sugarloaf Ck., 4 km W Currawan Ck., 26. ii. 1987, ANIC Berlesate 1071, leaf & log litter, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Toonumbar S. F., nr. Grevillia, Murray Scrub (28 ° 29 ’ S, 152 ° 46 ’ E), 770 m, 794, subtropical rainf., 6. i. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 182, berlesate, leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (5, ANIC, FMNH); Unumgar S. F., Grevillia, Coxs Rd. (28 ° 27 ’ S, 152 ° 45 ’ E), 589 m, 789, subtropical rainf., 2 – 11. i. 1987, FMHD # 175, flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Unumgar S. F., nr. Woodenbong Pole Bridge Rd. (28 ° 24 ’ S, 152 ° 40 ’ E), 430 m, 788, dry rainforest, Arauc., Euc., 2 – 11. i. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 172, flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (5. ANIC, FMNH); Unumgar S. F., nr. Woodenbong Pole Bridge Rd. (28 ° 24 ’ S, 152 ° 40 ’ E), 430 m, 788, dry rainforest, Arauc., Euc., 2 – 11. i. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 174, berlesate leaf & log litter ,, A. Newton, M. Thayer (2. ANIC); Wiangaree, 33 km NE, nr. Tweed Valley Lookout, c 1000 m, rainforest, 13. vi – 23. viii. 1982, SBP 37, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (1, CNM); Wiangaree S. F. (28 ° 22 ’ S, 153 ° 05 ’ E), 1050 m, 10 – 12. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 770, litter under Nothofagus moorei, T. Weir, A. Calder (4, ANIC); Wiangaree S. F., 33 km NE Wiangaree, c 1000 m, 24. viii. 1982, SBP 112, Nothofagus litter, S. & J. Peck (1, CMN); Wiangaree S. F., Brindle Ck., 740 m, subtropical rainforest, 29. ii – 3. iii. 1980, berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Wiangaree S. F., Sheepstation Ck., 600 m, subtropical rainforest, 29. ii – 3. iii. 1980, berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); QLD: Binna Burra, Lamington Nat. Park, 25. iii – 4. iv. 1985, ANIC 1043 Winkler extract, leaf & log litter, J. & N. Lawrence (2, ANIC); O’Reilly; s, Lamington Nat. Park (28 ° 14 ’ S, 153 ° 08 ’ E), 22 – 27. xi. 1978. berlese leaf & log litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northern NSW and southern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens have been collected primarily from berlesates of sifted leaf and log litter, but also from flight intercept window / trough traps,	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D33FF90FF7448C22F24FD8C.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named for Dorrigo National Park, NSW.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	description	(Figs 13 – 14, 43, 56, 81, 106, 122, 131)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It differs from E. minutus in its larger size (length greater than 1.85 mm), from E. minutus, E. dorrigo, E. brindabellae and E. tasmaniae in the red pronotum and black elytra. It differs from E. bicolorellus in its larger size (greater than 2.0 mm), black head, and longer, narrower apical antennomere (more than 1.50 times as long as wide) with truncate apex. From E. bicolor it differs in having the pronotum, scutellar shield and sides of elytra red, the apical antennomere widened and subtruncate apically. This is the largest of the wingless species, usually more than 2.3 mm long, with the body more than 1.8 times as long as combined elytral width.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	description	Description. Length: 2.20 – 2.80 (2.63 ± 0.15) mm; body 1.80 – 1.95 (1.88) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.60 – 0.66 (0.63) times combined elytral width. Colour of head black; pronotum and sides of elytra red; main portion of elytra black, scutellar shield black or red; undersurfaces reddish anteriorly, brownish posteriorly; legs and antennae yellowish-brown. Head 0.97 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.45 times as great as distance between them; inner eye margin without notch. Labrum 0.56 times as long as wide; sides weakly curved and converging to slightly emarginate apex. Antenna about 1.82 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere equal in length to 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.18 times as long as 10, 1.86 times as long as wide, with subtruncate apex. Galea about 1.33 times as wide as lacinia, not widened apically. Apical maxillary palpomere subulate, about 2.53 times as long as wide, with short mesal aciculate papilla. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 1.67 times as long as wide, with long aciculate papilla. Pronotum 0.38 – 0.49 (0.42) times as long as wide; prosternal process abruptly narrowed preapically with subacute apex. Scutellar shield 0.21 times as wide as pronotum and 0.65 times as long as wide at base and apex acute. Elytra 1.47 – 1.63 (1.54) times as long as combined width and 4.17 – 5.00 (4.55) times as long as pronotum; punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 81. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.52 times as long as mesepimeron and 1.08 times as long as wide, very asymmetrically triangular with straight anterior edge, strongly rounded outer edge and weakly rounded outer edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 4.4 times as long as posterior edge, which is moderately deeply biemarginate. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.50 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner one about equal in length with a blunt, cleft apex. Parameres at about middle 1.5 times as wide as penis at same point, very slightly curved mesally with broadly rounded apex. Penis with sides gradually converging to subapex, then very slightly diverging before subacute apex. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 28.14 S 123.08 E, QLD, Lamington NP, near O’Reilly’s 25 Oct. 1993, S. A. Slipinski & J. F. Lawrence colls / WINKLER ANIC 1687, leaf & log litter ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067874). Paratypes. NSW: Beaury S. F. (28 ° 29 ’ S, 152 ° 28 ’ E), c 700 m, closed forest, 15 – 17. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 778, T. Weir, A. Calder (4, ANIC); Richmond Range S. F. (28 ° 48 ’ S, 152 ° 59 ’ E), c 600 m, closed forest, 13 – 14. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 774, T. Weir, A. Calder (1, ANIC); Styx River S. F., W end Thru Road, 24 km SE Wollomombi (30 ° 36 ’ S, 152 ° 10 ’ E), 980 m, wet sclerophyll forest, 25. ii – 15. iii 1993, ANIC FIT 1410, D. Chandler (1, ANIC); Unumgar S F., Grevillia, Coxs Rd. (28 ° 27 ’ S, 152 ° 45 ’ E), 589 m, 789, subtropical rainf., 2 – 11. i. 1987, FMHD # 175, flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Unumgar S. F., nr. Woodenbong Pole Bridge Rd. (28 ° 24 ’ S, 152 ° 40 ’ E), 430 m, 788, dry rainforest, Arauc., Euc., 2 – 11. i. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 172, flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC, FMNH); Wiangaree S. F. (28 ° 22 ’ S, 153 ° 05 ’ E), 1050 m, 10 – 12. ii. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 770, litter under Nothofagus moorei, T. Weir, A. Calder (1, ANIC); Wiangaree S. F., Brindle Ck., 740 m, subtropical rainforest, 29. ii – 3. iii. 1980, berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Wiangaree S. F., via Kyogle, 28. xi. 1970, G. Monteith (1, QMB); QLD: Binna Burra, Lamington Nat. Park, 25. iii – 4. iv. 1985, ANIC 1043 Winkler extract, leaf & log litter, J. & N. Lawrence (2, ANIC); Lamington Nat. Park, 9 – 10. viii. 1978, Berl., leaf litter, R. Raven (1, QMB / UQ); Lamington Nat. Park, O’Reilly’s (28 ° 14 ’ S, 153 ° 08 ’ E), 22 – 27. xi. 1978, berlesed leaf & log litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Lamington Nat. Park, O’Reilly’s (28 ° 14 ’ S, 153 ° 08 ’ E), 2 – 4. iii. 1980, ANIC Berlesate 673, leaf litter, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Lamington Nat. Park, O’Reilly’s (28 ° 16 ’ S, 153 ° 10 ’ E), 900 m, rainforest, 25. iii. 1998, QM Berlesate 967, stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Lamington Nat. Park, near O’Reilly’s (28 °. 14 ’ S 153 ° 08 ’ E), 25. x. 1993, ANIC Winkler 1687, leaf & log litter, S. A. Ślipiński, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Springbrook Repeater (28 ° 15 ’ S, 153 ° 16 ’ E), 1000 m, 9. i – 19. ii 1995, intercept traps, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Tullawallal, Binna Burra (28 ° 12 ’ S, 153 ° 12 ’ E), 950 m, 3. xii. 1994 – 9. i. 1995, pitfall trap, G. Monteith, H. Janetzki (1, QMB).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northeastern NSW and southeastern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens have been collected mainly in flight intercept window / trough traps and in berlesates from sifted leaf and log litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D32FF93FF744AF12CE3FCD4.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin limitaris, on the border, referring to its distribution along the NSW-QLD border.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	description	(Figs 15 – 16, 36, 47 – 48, 57 – 58, 73, 82, 96, 109, 117, 132 – 133)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. bicolor, E. bicolorellus, E. brindabellae, E. dorrigo, E. limitaris, E. minutus, E. protibialis and E. tasmaniae in having a longer and narrower metanepisternum, less sharply acute scutellar shield, an internal eye notch and fully developed hind wings. It differs from E. nebulosus and E. tropicus in having a more elongate and narrow body (more than 1.9 times as long as wide; elytra more than 1.57 times as long as wide) and the apical maxillary palpomere widened and obliquely truncate apically and from E. similis in having the head at least partly black, the apical maxillary palpomere less strongly expanded, the third antennomere only slightly shorter than the fourth and the terminal antennomere less elongate.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	description	Description. Length: 2.40 – 2.60 (2.48 ± 0.07) mm; body 1.95 – 1.96 (1.95) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.70 – 0.71 (0.70) times combined elytral width. Colour of head dark brown but reddish posteriorly; pronotum red; scutellar shield and elytra black; undersurfaces mainly dark brown; legs yellowish-brown. Head 0.89 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.45 times as great as distance between them; inner edge of eye with distinct notch. Labrum 0.52 times as long as wide; sides weakly curved and converging to slightly emarginate apex. Antenna about 1.8 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere 0.88 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.25 times as long as 10, 1.87 times as long as wide and truncate at apex. Mandibular mola well-developed. Galea about 2.0 times as wide at middle as lacinia, distinctly widened and broadly rounded at apex. Apical maxillary palpomere about 1.75 times as long as wide, widest subapically, obliquely truncate at apex. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.00 times as long as wide, with aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.41 – 0.42 (0.41) times as long as wide; prosternal process narrowly rounded apically. Scutellar shield 0.19 times as wide as pronotum, 0.83 times as long as wide with subacute apex rounded at tip. Elytra 1.66 – 1.67 (1.66) times as long as combined width and 5.66 – 5.90 (5.79) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 82. Hind wings fully developed. Metanepisternum 1.32 times as long as mesepimeron, about 2.64 times as long as wide, asymmetrically quadrate with evenly curved inner edge, slightly sinuate outer edge and oblique apical edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.2 times as long as posterior edge, which is minutely emarginate at mesal end. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.35 times as long as first mesotarsomere; inner spur 1.24 times as long as outer one, parallel-sided with blunt, cleft apex. Parameres at about middle 1.12 times as wide as penis at same point, not at all curved, apex asymmetrically acute with rounded outer side and straight inner side. Penis gradually narrowed to acute apex extending to parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♀: “ LORIEN ” W. R. 3 km N Lansdowne / Taree, NSW, 15 - 22 Nov. 1987, G. Williams, ex r / f margin, Malaise trap / ANIC Image ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067875). Paratypes. NSW: Allyn River, Chichester S. F. (32 ° 08 ’ S, 151 ° 27 ’ E), rainforest, 10 – 11. xi. 1981, ANIC Berlesate 747, log & leaf ltter, T. A. Weir (1, ANIC); “ Lorien ” W. R., 3 km N Lansdowne / Taree, 11 – 14. x. 1987, rainforest margin, Malaise trap, G. Williams (1, ANIC); “ Lorien ” W. R., 3 km N Lansdowne / Taree, 7 – 14. ii. 1988, rainforest margin, Malaise trap, G. Williams (2, ANIC); “ Lorien ” W. R., 3 km N Lansdowne / Taree, 14 – 2. ii. 1988, rainforest margin, Malaise trap, G. Williams (1, ANIC). QLD: Cainbable Quarry (28.145 ° S, 153.113 ° E), OF, 6. xii. 2008 – 6. i. 2009, Malaise, G. Monteith (1, QMB); Lamington Nat. Park (28.210 ° S, 153.127 ° E), IBISCA 900, OF, 16. xii. 2008 – 6. i. 2009, Malaise G. Monteith (1, QMB); Longlands Gap GS 1 (17 ° 28 ’ S, 145 ° 29 E), 1150 m, Malaise trap, L. Umback (2, ANIC); Mt. Edith GS 2 (17 ° 06 ’ S, 145 ° 37 ’ E), 1050 m, 1. xii. 1994 – 3. i. 1995, Malaise trap, P. Zborowski (1, ANIC); Mt. Edith GS 2 (17 ° 06 ’ S, 145 ° 37 ’ E), 1050 m, 29. ix – 31. x. 1995, Malaise trap, L. Umback (2, ANIC); Mt. Edith GS 2 (17 ° 06 ’ S, 145 ° 37 ’ E), 1050 m, 29. x – 31. xi. 1995, Malaise trap, L. Umback (2, ANIC); Mt. Spec, S 1 (19 ° 00 ’ S, 146 ° 11 ’ E), 875 m 6. xii. 1994 – 10. i. 1995, FIT Trap, JCU, M. Cermak (2, ANIC); Mt. Spec, S 2 (18 ° 55 ’ S, 146 ° 10 ’ E), 880 m, 4. ix – 1. x. 1995, Malaise trap, M. Cermak (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northeastern NSW to northern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens have been collected in Malaise traps and in berlesates of sifted log and leaf litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D31FF92FF744BD92962FD45.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the name Lorien, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, but also the name of a wildlife refuge near Taree, NSW, where the holotype and some of the paratype specimens were collected.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	description	(Figs 17 – 19, 46, 59, 83, 138)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It is further separated from all wingless species in it small size (less than 1.85 mm), short, broad body (less than 1.44 times as long as combined elytral width) and more or less uniform dark brown or black colour.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	description	Description. Length 1.65 – 1.85 (1.74 ± 0.05) mm; body 1.68 – 1.80 (1.72) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.57 – 0.63 (0.59) times elytral width. Colour of dorsal and ventral surfaces primarily black; antennae yellowish-brown. Head 0.84 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.47 times distance between them; inner eye margin without notch. Antenna about 1.65 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere equal in length to 4 th; antennomere 11 1.30 times as long as 10, 1.44 times as long as wide and broadly rounded at apex. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea about as wide at middle as lacinia, not widened apically, slightly curved. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.5 times as long as wide, widest at middle, evenly slightly curved laterally and barely narrowed to apical sixth, then strongly obliquely truncate, giving rise near outer edge to slender process, narrowly rounded at apex. Apical labial palpomere distinctly subulate. Pronotum 0.40 – 0.52 (0.45) times as long as wide; prosternal process abruptly narrowed subapically, with subacute apex. Scutellar shield 0.28 times as wide at base as pronotum, 0.5 times as long as wide, with acute apex. Elytra 1.33 – 1.43 (1.37) times as long as combined width and 3.68 – 4.29 (3.91) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 83. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.54 times as long as mesepimeron, irregularly triangular with slightly rounded outer edge, strongly rounded inner edge and distinct apical notch. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.1 times as long as posterior edge, which is deeply emarginate near mesal end and shallowly emarginate near middle. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.53 times as long as first mesotarsomere and inner one slightly shorter, sinuate, with a blunt, cleft apex. Parameres 1.14 times as wide at about middle as penis at same point, slightly curved mesally just before apex, which is narrowly rounded. Penis gradually narrowing to subacute apex. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 36.57 S 147.21 E VIC Bogong N. P. 5.5 km E Strawberry Saddle, 1450 m, 803, 22 Jan. - 13 Feb. 1987, A. Newton & M. Thayer / wetr scler. forest FMHD 87 - 196 Berl. leaf & log litter ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067876). Paratypes. VIC: Bogong N. P., 5.5 km E of Strawberry Saddle (36 ° 57 ’ S, 147 ° 21 ’ E), 1450 m, 803, wet sclerophyll forest, 22. i – 13. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 96, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (15, ANIC, FMNH, MVM).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from the Victorian Alps.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Only known specimens collected in leaf litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D30FF92FF744AA92F4FF85F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin minutus, little, small.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	description	(Figs 24 – 25, 34, 45, 62, 84, 110, 113, 118, 124, 127, 139)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. bicolor, E. bicolorellus, E. brindabellae, E. dorrigo, E. limitaris, E. minutus, E. protibialis and E. tasmaniae in having a longer and narrower metanepisternum, less sharply acute scutellar shield, internal eye notch and hind wings. It differs from E. lorien and E. similis in having a shorter and broader body (less than 1.9 times as long as wide; elytra together less than 1.57 times as long as wide) and the apical maxillary palpomere widest at the middle with an acute apex. It differs from E. tropicus in having the body entirely black and the apical antennomere less than 1.8 times as long as wide.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	description	Description. Length: 2.10 – 2.40 (2.21 ± 0.09) mm; body 1.69 – 1.86 (1.70) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.68 – 0.76 (0.71) times elytral width. Colour of most surfaces black; legs and antennae reddishbrown to yellowish-brown. Head 0.96 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.41 times distance between them; mesal eye margin with distinct notch. Labrum 0.71 times as long as wide, with sides almost straight and converging to subtruncate apex. Antenna about 1.95 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere 0.77 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.19 times as long as 10 th, 1.58 times as long as wide and subtruncate at apex. Mandibular mola well-developed. Galea slightly wider than lacinia, expanded at apex. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.75 times as long as wide, with narrowly, obliquely truncate apex. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.5 times as long as wide with moderately long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.34 – 0.45 (0.38) times as long as wide; prosternal process subacute at apex. Scutellar shield 0.17 times as wide as base of pronotum, 0.82 times as long as wide at base, with subacute apex rounded at tip. Elytra 1.40 – 1.55 (1.48) times as long as combined width and 5.91 – 4.92 (5.21) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 84. Hind wings fully developed. Metanepisternum 1.26 times as long as mesepimeron, 1.94 times as long as wide, asymmetrically quadrate with strongly rounded inner edge, straight outer edge, and obliquely truncate posterior edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 2.7 times as long as posterior edge, which is minutely emarginate near its mesal end. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.46 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner spur equal in length to outer one, parallel-sided with a blunt, cleft apex. Meso- and metapretarsal claws each with a slender, acute accessory lobe almost as long as the claw. Parameres 1.22 times as wide at about middle as penis at same point, distinctly curved mesally before apex, which is narrowly rounded. Penis gradually narrowing to subapex, then slightly expanded before acute apex, ending well before parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 11.51 S 142.38 E QLD, 12 km SSE Heathlands, 26 Jan. - 1 Mar. 1992, P. Feehney, closed forest MALAISE # 3 # 4 ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067877). Paratypes. QLD: Batavia Downs, 3 km W (12 ° 40 ’ S, 142 ° 39 ’ E), 11. xii. 1982 – 16. i. 1993, Malaise trap, P. Zborowski (1, ANIC); Batavia Downs, 3 km W (12 ° 40 ’ S, 142 ° 39 ’ E), 16. ii. 1982 – 8. iii. 1993, Malaise trap, I. Cunningham (1, ANIC); Batavia Downs, 7 km S (12 ° 43 ’ S, 142 ° 42 ’ E), 23. xi – 11. xii. 1982, Malaise trap, P. Zborowski, W. Dessler (1, ANIC); Cape Tribulation, 2 km WSW, CT 3 (16 ° 05 ’ S, 145 ° 27 ’ E), 30 m, 1 – 28. ii. 1996, Malaise trap, L. Umback (2, ANIC); Cape Tribulation, 2 km WSW, CT 3 (16 ° 05 ’ S, 145 ° 27 ’ E), 30 m, 1 – 28. ii. 1996, FI Trap, JCU, L. Umback (2, ANIC); Cape Tribulation, 2 km WSW, CT 3 (16 ° 05 ’ S, 145 ° 27 ’ E), 30 m, 28. ii – 27. iii. 1996, Malaise trap, P. Zborowski (3, ANIC); Cape Tribulation, 2 km WSW, CT 3 (16 ° 05 ’ S, 145 ° 27 ’ E), 30 m, 28. ii – 27. iii. 1996, FI trap, P. Zborowski (1, ANIC); Cockatoo Ck. Xing, 17 km NW Heathlands (11 ° 39 ’ S, 142 ° 27 ’ E), open forest, 22. iii – 25. iv. 1992, Malaise # 5, T. McLeod (1, ANIC); Davies Creek, 19 km WSW of Mareeba, 2. xii. 1984 – 7. i. 1985, Malaise trap, Storey & Titmarsh (1, QMB); Heathlands (11 ° 45 ’ S, 142 ° 35 ’ E), 26. i – 29. ii. 1992, open forest, Malaise # 2, P. Feehney (1, ANIC); Heathlands (11 ° 45 ’ S, 142 ° 35 ’ E), 22. iii – 25. iv. 1992, open forest, Malaise # 2, T. McLeod (1, ANIC); Heathlands, 12 km SSE (11 ° 51 ’ S, 142 ° 38 ’ E), closed forest, 26. i – 29. ii. 1992, Malaise # 3, # 4, J. Feehney (2, ANIC); Heathlands, 12 km SSE (11 ° 51 ’ S, 142 ° 38 ’ E), closed forest, 26. i – 1. iii. 1992, Malaise # 3, # 4, J. Feehney (2, ANIC); Heathlands, 12 km SSE (11 ° 51 ’ S, 142 ° 38 ’ E), closed forest, 22. iii – 25. iv. 1992, Malaise # 3, # 4, T. McLeod (2, ANIC); Julatten, 21 – 30. xi. 1987, edge of rainforest along creek, ex intercept trap, A. Walford-Huggins (2, ANIC); Mareeba, 6 km SE, 20. i – 12. ii. 1990, MDPI FIT Site 36, M. DeFaveri (1, QMB); Mareeba, 19.3 km ESE, 13. i – 3. ii. 1987, MDPI Intercept Trap Site No. 9 A, R. I. Storey (1, QMB); Tolga, 7 km NE, 2 – 22. ii. 1987, MDPI Intercept Trap 28, Storey & De Faveri (1, QMB); Mt. Webb Nat. Pk. (15 ° 04 ’ S, 145 ° 07 ’ E), 27 – 30. iv. 1981, ANIC Berlesate 715, rainforest litter, A. Calder, J. Feehan (1, ANIC); Walkamin (DPI), 9 – 16. iv. 2002, Macadamia orchard, (55 K) X 0332507, Y 8104754, Malaise trap, R. Blanche, R. Bower (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens have been collected primarily in Malaise traps, but also in flight intercept window / trough traps.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D37FF94FF7448C22F6AFF15.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin nebulosus, cloudy, dark.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	description	(Figs 23, 44, 61, 72, 75, 86, 92, 99, 107, 137)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. The male differs from all other Australian eucinetids in having a relatively short and broad, densely setose protibia and expanded protarsomeres, but the female is unknown. The species differs from E. brindabellae, E. tasmaniae, E. dorrigo and E. minutus in the contrasting red pronotum and black elytra. The few known specimens are distinctly smaller than most E. bicolor or E. limitaris and differ from E. bicolorellus in having the head reddish-brown, instead of red, and the abdomen red, instead of black. The four known specimens are all males and three were collected at localities where specimens of E. bicolor were also collected (Mt. Donna Buang and Myrtle Gully).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	description	Description. Length 1.90 – 2.00 (1.97) mm; body 1.80 – 1.87 (1.85) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.61 – 0.82 (0.68) times elytral width. Colour of pronotum and scutellar shield red; elytra black, with some red near scutellar shield, at sides and on epipleura; head reddish-brown; undersurface mostly red, with darker metacoxal plates; legs, antennae and palps yellow to yellowish-brown. Head about 0.95 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.36 times distance between them; inner edges of eyes not notched. Labrum 0.50 times as long as wide; sides evenly converging to truncate apex. Antenna about 1.78 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere 0.89 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.22 times as long as 10 th, 1.57 times as long as wide and truncate at apex. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea and lacinia both very narrow and not apically widened. Apical maxillary palpomere subulate, 2.5 times as long as wide, with short aciculate tip. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.36 times as long as wide with moderately long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.46 – 0.52 (0.49) times as long as wide. Scutellar shield 0.20 times as wide as pronotum, 0.65 times as long as wide and apically acute. Elytra 1.41 – 1.49 (1.47) times as long as combined width and 3.60 – 4.04 (3.83) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 86; epipleura very narrow, gradually ending near metacoxal bases. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.48 times as long as mesepimeron, irregularly quadrangular, with anterior edge transverse and posterior edge strongly oblique. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.5 times as long as posterior edge, which is more or less truncate. Protibia in male relatively short, broad and densely setose and basal protarsomeres expanded. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.45 times as long as first mesotarsomere, inner spur almost twice as long, parallel-sided with a blunt, cleft apex. Sternite VIII in male 0.65 times as long as wide with weakly emarginate apex and basal strut 0.46 times as long as body of sternite; sternite IX 1.96 times as long as wide with basal strut 0.40 times as long as body of sternite. Parameres at about middle 0.50 times as wide as penis at same point, the apex of each strongly curved mesally and slightly expanded; penis slightly widened subapically, then narrowed to acute apex, extending almost to level of parameres. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 37.43 S 145.38 E VIC Myrtle Gully Res. NW Warburton, 1000 m, 819, 30 Jan - 9 Feb. 1987 A. Newton, M. Thayer / Noth. cunn. & Euc. regnans FMHD # 87 - 247 flight interc. trap ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067878). Paratypes. VIC: Cumberland Ck., 13 km ESE of Marysville (37 ° 34 ’ S, 145 ° 53 ’ E), 18. i. 1978, berlesed from log & leaf litter, Lawrence, Weir (1, ANIC); Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m, 810, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, wet scler. Noth. cunn. FMHD # 87 - 218, berl. leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (2, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Eastern VIC.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Collected in flight-intercept / trough traps and in berlesates of leaf and log litter.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF94FF7449192D37F8DB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin term protibia and the suffix alis, pertaining to, referring to the modified male protibia.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	description	(Figs 20 – 22, 49, 63, 87, 111, 134)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. bicolor, E. bicolorellus, E. brindabellae, E. dorrigo, E. limitaris, E. minutus, E. protibialis, and E. tasmaniae in having a longer and narrower metanepisternum, less sharply acute scutellar shield, an internal eye notch and hind wings. It differs from E. nebulosus and E. tropicus in having a more elongate and narrow body (more than 1.9 times as long as wide; elytra together more than 1.57 times as long as wide) and the apical maxillary palpomere widened and obliquely truncate apically, and from E. lorien in having the head red, the apical maxillary palpomere less than 1.6 times as long as wide and less strongly, obliquely expanded apically, and the third antennomere much shorter than the fourth.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	description	Description. Length 2.70 – 3.10 (2.93 ± 0.16) mm; body 1.91 – 1.98 (1.95) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.69 – 0.75 (0.70) times elytral width. Colour of head, pronotum and scutellar shield red; elytra black; undersurfaces mostly dark brown or black; legs and antennae yellowish-brown. Head 0.97 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.44 times distance between them; inner edge of eye with distinct notch. Labrum 0.63 times as long as wide; sides weakly curved, converging beyond middle and slightly emarginate apically. Antenna about 1.6 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere 0.65 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.39 times as long as 10 th, 2.0 times as long as wide, with subtruncate apex. Mandibular mola well developed. Galea about 2.0 times as wide as lacinia at middle, distinctly widened and broadly rounded at apex. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.05 times as long as wide, widest subapically and obliquely truncate at apex. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 1.87 times as long as wide, with aciculate tip relatively short. Pronotum 0.34 – 0.50 (0.42) times as long as wide; prosternal process narrowly rounded at apex. Scutellar shield 0.21 times as wide as pronotum, 0.88 times as long as wide, with subacute apex rounded at tip. Elytra 1.62 – 1.73 (1.65) times as long as combined width and 4.45 – 7.08 (5.62) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 87. Hind wings fully developed. Metanepisternum 1.46 times as long as mesepimeron, 2.7 times as long as wide, asymmetrically quadrate with moderately straight inner edge curved at each end, straight outer edge, and oblique apical edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 2.75 times as long as posterior edge, which is minutely, emarginate near its mesal end. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.39 times as long as first mesotarsomere; inner spur of equal length, parallel-sided with a blunt, cleft apex. Meso- and metapretarsal claws each with about 3 very weak teeth and with a slender, pubescent accessory lobe almost as long as claw. Parameres at about middle 1.43 times as wide as penis at same point, straight, not at all curved, with apex asymmetrically acute, with rounded outer side and straight inner side. Penis with sides gradually converging to subacute apex. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 35.22 S 148.48 E, Piccadilly Circus 1240 m, ACT Feb. 84, J. Lawrence, T. Weir, M. - L. Johnson, coll. / flight intercept window / trough trap ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067879). Paratypes. ACT: Blundell’s Creek, 3 km S Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 50 ’ E), 850 m, 11.1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (1, ANIC); Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 22 ’ S, 148 ° 48 ’ E), 1240 m, ii. 1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (1, ANIC); Wombat Creek, 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus (35 ° 19 ’ S, 148 ° 51 ’ E), 750 m, ii. 1984, flight intercept window / trough trap, T. Weir, J. Lawrence, M. Johnson (2, ANIC); NSW: Kosciusko N. P., 4.1 km W Dead Horse Gap (36 ° 32 ’ S, 148 ° 13 ’ E), 1500 m, Euc. pauciflora woodland, 9. xii. 1986 – 14. ii. 1987, flght intercept (window) trap, FMHD # 86 - 645, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); VIC: Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m 810, Noth. cunn. Wet sclerophyll, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 216, flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); TAS: Sandpit For. Reserve, S of Orford (42 ° 43 ’ S, 147 ° 50 ’ E), 200 m, 915, Euc. globulus w / rainf. understorey, 17. i – 2. ii. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 45, ex window trap (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Montane regions of the ACT, southeastern NSW, eastern VIC and TAS.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. All specimens were collected in flight intercept window / trough traps.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D36FF97FF744F272E4AF90C.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin similis, like or resembling, referring to the similarities to E. lorien. Note. The differences between this species and E. lorien are relatively minor ones, and it is possible that the two forms represent northern and southern populations of a single widely distributed species, comparable, perhaps, to E. stewarti (Broun) in New Zealand.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	description	(Figs 26 – 27, 50, 64, 88, 136)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. lorien, E. nebulosus, E. similis and E. tropicus in having a short, broad metanepisternum and sharply acute scutellar shield and in lacking a notched inner eye margin and hind wings. It differs from E. bicolor, E. bicolorellus, E. limitaris and E. protibialis in that all surfaces are yellowish-brown to red- dish-brown, without the contrasting red pronotum and black elytra. It differs from E. dorrigo in having the apical antennomere much shorter and broader, less than 1.4 times as long as wide, the apical maxillary palpomere gradually narrowed apically with its aciculate tip centrally located, parameres not outwardly bowed and length usually greater than 2.00 mm, and from E. brindabellae in having the apical antennomere less than 1.5 times as long as wide, the third antennomere equal in length to the fourth, the sides of the elytra less strongly curved, the upper surfaces very slightly curved in lateral view and the colour mainly yellowish-brown with legs and antennae yellow.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	description	Description Length 1.80 – 2.30 (2.06 ± 0.18, n = 10) mm; body 1.79 – 1.97 (1.85) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.59 – 0.69 (0.64) times elytral width. Colour of dorsal and ventral surfaces primarily yellowish-brown; legs and antennae yellow. Head 0.96 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.49 times distance between them; inner edge of eye without notch. Labrum 0.50 times as long as wide; sides weakly converging; apex slightly emarginate. Antenna about 1.7 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere equal in length to 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.33 times as long as 10 th, 1.90 times as long as wide, with apex broadly rounded. Mandibular mola reduced. Galea about as wide as lacinia and not widened at apex. Apical maxillary palpomere subulate, 2.00 times as long as wide, with very short aciculate tip. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.25 times as long as wide, widest at middle, with long aciculate tip. Pronotum 0.40 – 0.48 (0.45) times as long as wide; prosternal process narrowly rounded at apex. Scutellar shield 0.23 times as wide as pronotum, 0.8 times as long as wide, acute at apex. Elytra 1.43 – 1.58 (1.49) times as long as combined width and 3.78 – 4.45 (4.11) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 88. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.73 times as long as mesepimeron, about 1.22 times as long as wide, subtriangular with moderately straight anterior and inner edges and curved outer edge. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 3.5 times as long as posterior edge, which is weakly biemarginate. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.57 times as long as first mesotarsomere; inner spur 0.83 times as long as outer spur, parallel-sided with a blunt, cleft apex. Meso- and metapretarsal claws simple and without accessory lobes. Parameres at about middle 1.5 times as wide as penis at same point; inner edge of each straight almost to apex, outer edge straight to subapex, then distinctly curved to narrowly rounded apex. Penis gradually narrowing to subapex, then abruptly narrowed to subacute apex. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 41.11 S 140.00 E TAS, Mt. Michael, 740 m, 26 Nov. 1989, pyrethrin knockdown, tree 1, Tube 187, R. Coy coll. / ANIC Image ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067880). Paratypes. TAS: Cranbrook, 15 km ENE (41 ° 57 ’ S, 148 ° 14 ’ E), 28. i. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 796, leaf litter, I. D. Naumann, J. C. Cardale (2, ANIC); Florentine Vy., 29.2 km WNW Maydena on Eleven Rd., 460 m, 1, 6. ii. 2980, berlesed from leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Lake Chisholm For. Reserve (41 ° 08 ’ S, 145 ° 04 ’ E), 180 m, Euc. obliqua forest, 909, 12 – 29. i. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 28, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Low- er Gordon River, Southwest Tasmania, 1977 – 1978, H. E. C. Survey, Howard, Hill (8, ANIC); Mt. Field (42 ° 41 ’ S, 146 ° 37 ’ E), 980 m, suction, R. Coy (1, ANIC); Mt. Field N. P., nr. SE end Lake Fenton, 1000 m, Nothofagus gunnii, Richea spp., Arthrotaxis asplen. forest, 30. i – 5. ii. 1980, carrion trap (fish), A. Newton, M. Thayer (2, ANIC, FMNH); Mt. Field N. P., nr. Lake Fenton, 100 m, Nothofagus gunnii, Arthrotaxis selaginoides, 31. i. 1980, ANIC Berlesate 667, litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Mt. Field N. P., Lake Dobson Rd., 710 m, Nothof. - Euc. for., 30. i – 5. ii. 1980, Berlese forest litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Michael (41 ° 11 S, 148 ° 00 ’ E), 740 m, 26. xi. 199, pyrethrin knockdown, tree 1, Tube 187, R. Coy (1, ANIC); Mt. Ossa, 2 km NebyN (41 ° 52 ’ S, 146 ° 03 ’ E), 1000 m, closed forest, 30. xi. 1990 – 8. i. 1991, ANIC Berlesate 1146, litter E. Nielsen, T. Edwards (6, ANIC); Mt. Victoria (41 ° 20 ’ S, 147 ° 50 ’ E), 900 m, 23, 25. xi. 1989, pyrethrum knockdown, R. Coy, H. Mitchell (4, ANIC); Mt. Victoria (41 ° 20 ’ S, 147 ° 50 ’ E), 900 m, 22 – 28. xi. 1989, yellow pans, R. Coy, H. Mitchell (1, ANIC); Mt. Wellington, above chalet, 1000 m, 31. xii. 1978, L. Hill (1, ANIC); Rufus Canal 13.5 km WNW Derwent Bridge, 800 m, Nothofagus rainforest, 26 – 28. i. 1980, pitfall trap 563, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Savage R. Pipeline Rd. (41 ° 30 ’ S, 145 ° 20 ’ E), 21. iv. 1989, leaf litter, J. Diggle, H. Mitchell (1, ANIC); Saxon’s Rd. (41 ° 18 ’ S, 145 ° 36 ’ E), 17. i. 1983, ANIC Berlesate 786, rainforest litter, I. D. Naumann, J. C. Cardale (1, ANIC); Schulhofs Road, 8.7 km NE Upper Blessington (41 ° 26 ’ S, 147 ° 36 ’ E), 870 m, 914, Euc. delacatensis, Euc. obliqua forest, 16. i – 1. ii. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 43, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); St. Columba Falls, 315 m, 12 – 14. ii. 1980, berlesed from leaf litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (2, ANIC, FMNH); Truchanas Huon Pine Res. (42 ° 39.5 ’ S, 145 ° 58 ’ E), 19. iii. 1976, Dacrydium litter, C. Howard (1, ANIC); Waldheim, Cradle Mtn., 12 – 14. ii. 1967, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Weldborough, near (41 ° 09 ’ 50 ” S, 147 ° 53 ’ 51 ” E), Nothofagus forest, 22 – 27. v. 1993, J. Trueman et al. (1, ANIC); Weldborough, 4.4 km SE, 460 m, 12 – 14. ii. 1980, Nothofagus forest, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from TAS.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Specimens collected primarily in Berlese samples from leaf litter, but some were taken in flight intercept window / trough traps, pitfall traps, yellow pans and by pyrethrin fogging.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D35FF89FF744F712F86FF15.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the name of the island of Tasmania.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	description	(Figs 28 – 29, 51, 65, 85, 112, 114, 135)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from E. bicolor, E. bicolorellus, E. brindabellae, E. dorrigo, E. limitaris, E. minutus, E. protibialis and E. tasmaniae in having a longer and narrower metanepisternum and less sharply acute scutellar shield and in having an internal eye notch and well-developed hind wings. It differs from E. lorien and E. similis in having a shorter and broader body (less than 1.9 times as long as wide; elytra together less than 1.57 times as long as wide) and the apical maxillary palpomere widest at the middle with an acute apex, and from E. nebulosus in having the head, pronotum and scutellar shield red and elytra black and the terminal antennomere more than twice as long as wide.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	description	Description. Length 2.10 – 2.40 (2.21 ± 0.08, n = 10) mm; body 1.72 – 1.87 (1.78) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.68 – 0.73 (0.71) times elytral width. Colour of head, pronotum and scutellar shield red; elytra black; undersurfaces mainly black with antennae and legs reddish-brown. Head 0.96 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.38 times distance between them; inner edge of eye with distinct notch. Labrum 0.33 times as long as wide; sides weakly curved and converging; apex broadly rounded. Antenna about 1.74 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere 0.77 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.36 times as long as 10 th, 2.14 times as long as wide, with obliquely truncate apex. Mandibular mola well developed. Galea about 1.2 times as wide as lacinia at middle, distinctly widened apically. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.92 times as long as wide, widest at middle, asymmetrically narrowed to obliquely truncate apex. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.42 times as long as wide, with short, broad, subtruncate tip. Pronotum 0.36 – 0.47 (0.41) times as long as wide; prosternal process narrowly rounded at apex. Scutellar shield 0.18 times as wide as pronotum, 0.76 times as long as wide, narrowly rounded at apex. Elytra 1.41 – 1.54 (1.46) times as long as combined width and 4.32 – 5.39 (4.70) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 85. Hind wings fully developed. Metanepisternum 0.96 times as long as mesepimeron, 1.88 times as long as wide, asymmetrically quadrate, widest at anterior end and narrowing posteriorly; anterior edge obliquely truncate with small anteromesal notch, posterior edge subtruncate; outer edge slightly sinuate and inner edge broadly curved. Metacoxal plate with outer edge about 2.45 times as long as posterior edge, which is minutely emarginate near its mesal end. Outer (acute) mesotibial spur in male 0.43 times as long as first mesotarsomere; inner spur of equal length, parallel-sided with a blunt apex. Meso- and metapretarsal claws without teeth but each with slender accessory lobe. Parameres as wide at about middle as penis at same point, very slightly curved mesally almost to apex, then more strongly curved and narrowly rounded. Penis gradually narrowed to subapex, then more abruptly narrowed acute apex, extending almost to parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ Julatten, N. QLD, 21 Nov- 30 Nov 1987, A. Walford-Huggins, edge of rainforest along creek, ex intercept trap ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067881). Paratypes. QLD: 40 Mile Scrub N. P., via Mt. Garnet, 23. x. 1985 – 25. ii. 1986, intercept trap, Malaise trap, Storey, Heinar (5, QMB); Clacherty Rd., Julatten, 26. xii. 1986 – 8. i. 1987, intercept trap, Storey, Howden (2, QMB); Davies Creek, 19 km WSW Mareeba, 21. xii. 1984 – 7. i. 1985, Malaise trap, Storey, Titmarsh (1, QMB); Julatten, edge of rainforest along creek, 29. x – 21. xi, 30. xi – 13. xii. 1987, ex intercept trap, A. Walford-Huggins (9, ANIC); Kuranda, 5 km NNW, 20. iii. v. 1987, intercept trap, Storey, Titmarsh (1, QMB); Lake Eacham, 750 m, 9. xii. 1989, Pyrethrum logs & trees, Monteith, Thompson, Janetski (1, QMB); Mareeba, 6 km SE, 20. i – 12. ii. 1990, 12. ii – 12. iii. 1991, flight intercept traps, S. DeFaveri (2, QMB); Mareeba, 19.3 km ESE, 13. i – 3. ii. 1987, intercept traps, R. I. Storey (1, QMB); Tully Falls S. F., 9.5 km SSW Ravenshoe, 1000 m, 5. xi – 7. xii. 1987, intercept trap, Storey, Dickinson (1, QMB); Windsor Tableland. 5.7 km past barracks (16 ° 14 ’ S, 145 ° 00 ’ E), 1300 m, 24. xi. 1997, 1653, Pyrethrum trees & logs, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Usually collected in Malaise or flight intercept traps, but also by pyrethrin fogging.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2BFF89FF7449162CDEF831.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin tropicus, pertaining to the solstice, but usually referring to the warmer latitudes.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF88FF7448C22850FD6C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from Eucinetus in the shorter, broader body with strongly convex upper surface, filiform or somewhat moniliform antennae, elytra without transverse strigulae, metendosternite with long lateral arms with a broad muscle disc at the apex of each, prosternal process widened apically, mesoventrite with moderately broad cavity and rounded apex, hind wings either highly reduced or absent, sternite IX with emarginate apex and apically widened basal strut and parameres much shorter than penis. Tibial spurs vary within the genus; metatibiae have a single spur in all except the New Zealand N. nunni and mesotibiae have two spurs, one of which is modified in the male, except in the Australian N. ornatus, which has a single mesotibial spur. Note. Noteucinetus was originally based on one New Zealand species (N. nunni Bullian & Leschen) occurring on both North Island and South Island and two Chilean species (N. chilensis Bullians & Leschen from Cautin, Concepcion and Malleco Provinces and N. latipennis from Quillota and Talca Provinces).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	description	(Figs 30 – 31, 60, 68, 89, 120, 126, 142, 148)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from N. victoriae in its smaller size (length less than 1.4 mm), shorter, broader body (less than 1.4 times combined elytral width), yellow colouration, with or without black elytral markings, and free portion of each paramere broad at base and narrowing towards subacute apex. It also differs from the two Chilean species, N. chilensis Bullians & Leschen and N. latipennis Bullians & Leschen, and the New Zealand N. nunni Bullians & Leschen in that the elytra are primarily yellow, with black markings, if present, not occupying the entire width. Males of N. ornatus differ from those of N. victoriae and the three exotic species in having a single unmodified mesotibial spur (as opposed to two with one modified).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	description	Description. Length 1.20 – 1.40 (1.30 ± 0.05) mm; body 1.25 – 1.40 (1.33) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.67 – 0.79 (0.72) times elytral width. Colour of dorsal surfaces highly variable; elytra always at least partly yellow, but sometimes with varying amounts of black (a small black spot on each side of suture near middle, a larger black macula crossing both elytra at same point, a large triangular black macula extending from anterior end to about middle, narrowing posteriorly); entirely yellow elytra may appear striped due to longitudinal puncture rows; pronotum varying from yellow to yellowish-brown, reddish-brown or dark brown, but often lighter at the sides; head usually yellow but varying to red or reddish-brown; undersides dark brown or black but with abdominal apex yellow; legs yellowish-brown to reddish-brown or dark brown; antennae and palps yellow. Head 0.88 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.30 times as great as distance between them; inner eye margin without notch. Labrum 0.70 times as long as wide, broadly more or less evenly rounded apically, but with a median prominence cleft at middle. Antenna about 1.44 times as long as head width; 3 rd antennomere 0.90 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.33 times as long as 10 th, 1.74 times as long as wide and broadly rounded at apex. Galea slightly wider than lacinia at midpoint, widest at basal third with sides irregularly converging to narrowly rounded apex. Apical maxillary palpomere 2.0 times as long as wide, widest at middle, apex broadly, obliquely truncate with small, rounded apicolateral projection. Apical labial palpomere subulate, 2.0 times as long as wide, widest near base, with broad and slightly asymmetrical tip. Pronotum 0.24 – 0.34 (0.30) times as long as wide; prosternal process expanded and truncate at apex. Scutellar shield 0.2 times as wide as pronotum, 0.75 times as long as wide at base with narrowly acute apex. Elytra together 1.05 – 1.22 (1.12) times as long as wide and 4.55 – 7.10 (5.43) times as long as pronotum; elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 89. Hind wings absent. Metanepisternum 0.71 times as long as mesepimeron and 1.52 times as long as wide, roughly pentagonal, with anterior, inner and out edges more or less straight, and posterior portion irregularly triangular, with posteromesal edge longer than posterolateral one. Mesotibia in male with one acute spur and no modified spur. Metatibia with one acute spur 0.87 times as long as first metatarsomere. Parameres about 0.70 times as wide as wide at about middle as penis at same point, sides weakly curved to subacute apex bearing several setae and connected to one another by subapical membrane. Penis slightly, gradually narrowed to subapex, then more strongly narrowed to subacute apex with median cleft, extending well beyond parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ Mt. Glorious, 630 m, QLD 14 Nov. 1986 - 30 Jan. 1987 T. Hiller, flight intercept, trough trap, rainforest ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067882). Paratypes. QLD: Binna Burra, 900 m, 23. vi. 1978, ex leaf log litter, S. & J. Peck (3, ANIC); Binna Burra, 900 m, 23. vi. 1978, ex rotten bark litter, S. & J. Peck (3, ANIC, CMN); Binna Burra, Lamington Nat. Park, 25. iii – 4. iv. 1985, ANIC Winkler Extract 1043, leaf & log litter, J. & N. Lawrence (2, ANIC); Boombana Nat. Park, Site 1 (27 ° 24.1 ’ S, 152 ° 47.4 ’ E), 440 m, 16. ii. 2004, 51834, pyrethrum, QM party (2, QMB); Boombana Nat. Park, Site 1 (27 ° 24.1 ’ S, 152 ° 47.4 ’ E), 440 m, 1 – 30. x. 2003, 51644, pitfall trap, QM party (2, QMB); Bulburrin barracks (24 ° 42 ’ S, 151 ° 28 ’ E), 580 m, rainforest, 8. x. 1999, 7816, Pyrethrum trees, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); Lamington Nat. Park (O’Reilly’s) (28 ° 14 ’ S, 153 ° 08 ’ E), rainforest, 22 – 27. x. 1978, ANIC Berlesate 655, litter, J. Lawrence, T. Weir (1, ANIC); Lamington Nat. Park, 4 km NW O’Reillys, Duck Creek Rd. (28 ° 13 ’ S, 153 ° 06 ’ E), 820 m, subtropical closed forest, 12. iv. 1993, ANIC Berlesate 1504, bark litter, D. S. Chandler (4, ANIC); Manorina N. P. (D’Aguilar N. P.), 500 m, nr. Brisbane, 4. vii. 1978, under bark, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Mary Cairn Cross Park, 7 km SE Maleny, 900 m, rainforest, 18. vi – 15. viii. 1982, SBP 40, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (4, ANIC, CNM); Mt. Chinghee, 12 km SE Rathdowney, 720 m, rainforest, 17, xii, 1982, Pyrethrum, Monteith, Yeates, Thompson (1, QMB); Mt. Glorious, 630 m, rainforest, 14. xi. 1986 – 30. i. 1987, flight intercept trough trap, T. Hiller (7. ANIC); Mt. Glorious, 800 m, 28. vi. 1978, ex leaf log litter, S. & J. Peck (1, CMN); Mt. Glorious (27 ° 20 ’ S, 152 ° 46 ’ E), 21. xii. 1990, ANIC Berlesate 1136, leaf & log litter with fungi, J. F. Lawrence (1, ANIC); Mt. Glorious, Miala N. P., 600 m, 4. vii. 1978, under bark, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Mt. Superbus summit, 8 – 9. ii. 1990, pyrethrum trees & logs, Monteith, Thompson, Janetski (2, QMB); Mt. Tenison Woods (27 ° 19 ’ S, 152 ° 44 ’ E), 750 m, rainforest, QM Berlesate 934, Stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); O’Reilly’s, Lamington N. P. (26 ° 16 ’ S, 153 ° 10 ’ E), 900 m, rainforest, 25. iii. 1998, QM Berlesate 967, stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28 ° 15 ’ S, 153 ° 16 ’ E), 1000 m, 9. i – 19. ii. 1995, intercept trap, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28 ° 15 ’ S, 153 ° 16 ’ E), 21. xii. 1996, pyrethrum dead trees, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB); Springbrook Repeater (28 ° 15 ’ S, 153 ° 16 ’ E), 1000, rainforest, 21. v. 1997, QM Berlesate 936, Stick brushing, G. B. Monteith (2, QMB); Upper Tallebudgera Creek, below Springbrook, 550 m, rainforest, 8. i. 1984, pyrethrum, G. B. Monteith (1, QMB). NSW: Brindle Creek, nr. Kyogle, Wiangaree S. F. 800 m, 20 vi. 1978, ex litter, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Nightcap Nat. Park, Mt. Nardi, Newton Dr. (28 ° 33 ’ S, 153 ° 17 ’ E), 700 m, 791, 4. i. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 178, berlese leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Sheepstation Ck., 16 km NE Wiangaree, 600 m, rainforest, 13. vi – 24. viii. 1982, SBP 36, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Wiangaree, 33 km NE, Tweed Valley Lookout, c 1000 m, rainforest, 13. vi – 24. viii. 1982, SBP 37, flight intercept trap, S. & J. Peck (2, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Northern NSW and southern QLD.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Collected in flight intercept window / trough traps and berlese samples of sifted leaf and log litter and by pyrethrin fogging and stick brushing.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D2AFF8BFF744A8F2FACFAB9.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Derived from the Latin ornatus, handsome, splendid.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D29FF84FF744DF22ED3F8E2.taxon	description	(Figs 32 – 33, 37 – 38, 66, 69, 90, 102, 108, 119, 125, 140 – 141)	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D29FF84FF744DF22ED3F8E2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. This species differs from N. ornatus in its larger size (length greater than 1.4 mm), more elongate body (more than 1.4 times combined elytral width), darker elytra (mostly dark brown or black), mesotibia in both sexes with two spurs, one of which in male is apically widened and cleft, and free portion of a paramere narrow and parallel-sided. The yellowish-brown head and pronotum and the dark brown or black elytra with a reddish sutural stripe separates this species from all other described Noteucinetus, and the single metatibial spur also separates it from N. nunni Bullians & Leschen.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D29FF84FF744DF22ED3F8E2.taxon	description	Description. Length 1.45 – 1.65 (1.55 ± 0.06) mm; body 1.42 – 1.57 (1.47) times as long as combined elytral width; greatest depth 0.73 – 0.78 (0.75) times elytral width. Colour of head and pronotum yellow to yellowishbrown; elytra primarily dark brown to black, sometimes with red along suture; undersurfaces reddish-brown anteriorly and dark brown posteriorly; legs yellowish-brown; antennae and palps yellow. Head 0.90 times as long as wide; distance across eyes 1.32 times distance between them; inner eye margin without notch. Labrum 0.65 times as long as wide, broadly more or less evenly rounded apically, but with a median prominence cleft at middle. Antenna about 1.4 times as long as head width behind eyes; 3 rd antennomere 0.81 times as long as 4 th; 11 th antennomere 1.32 times as long as 10 th, 1.80 times as long as wide and narrowly rounded at apex. Mandibular mola well developed. Galea subequal in width to lacinia at midpoint, widest at middle with sides irregularly converging to narrowly rounded apex. Apical maxillary palpomere 1.57 times as long as wide, with broadly, obliquely truncate apex. Apical labial palpomere 1.87 times as long as wide, more or less fusiform with moderately broadly rounded apex. Pronotum 0.29 – 0.37 (0.34) times as long as wide; prosternal process expanded and truncate at apex. Scutellar shield 0.3 times as wide as pronotum and 0.55 times as long as wide at base, with narrowly acute apex. Elytra 1.19 – 1.30 (1.24) times as long as wide and 4.71 – 6.50 (5.35) times as long as pronotum. Elytral punctation and vestiture as in Fig. 90. Metanepisternum 0.73 times as long as mesepimeron, 1.91 times as long as wide, asymmetrically quadrate with all edges straight, the anterior one slightly oblique and the posterior one strongly oblique. Hind wing reduced and flap-like. Mesotibia in female with two acute spurs, one about 0.45 times as long as first mesotarsomere and the other slightly shorter; male with acute spur about as long as in female and a modified spur arising at an angle, slightly shorter, thicker and widened at apex, with a small articulated piece arising from within a cleft. Metatibia with one acute spur 0.75 times as long as first metatarsome. Parameres with apical free sections very narrow with narrowly rounded apex bearing several setae; connecting membrane located well away from apices. Penis slightly, gradually narrowed to subapex, then more strongly narrowed to subacute apex with median cleft, extending well beyond parameral apices. Types: Holotype, ♁: “ 37.41 S 145.44 E, VIC, Acheron Gap, 750 m, NE of Warburton, 813, 17 Jan. - 9 Feb. 1987, A. Newton & M. Thayer / Noth. cunn. - Euc. regnans, pyrethin fogging fungusy logs / ANIC image ” (ANIC type # 25 - 067883). Paratypes. VIC: Acheron Gap, nr. Warburton, 28 – 30. iv. 1978, Nothofagus lttter, S. & J. Peck (20, ANIC, CMN); Acheron Gap, NE of Warburton (37 ° 41 ’ S, 145 ° 44 ’ E), 750 m, 813, 27. i – 9. ii. 1987, Nothofagus cunninghami - Eucalyptus regnans, pyrethrum fogging fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (33, ANIC, FMNH, MVM, NZAC, QMB); Baw Baw Alpine Res., 0.7 km NE Neulynes Mill (37 ° 51 ’ S, 146 ° 15 ’ E). 1035 m, 930, Eucalyptus delecatensis forest w / Nothofagus cunninghami, 26. ii. 1993, pyrethrum fogging old large Euc. logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (4, ANIC, FMNH); Baw Baw Alpine Res., 1.2 km NE Neulynes Mill (37 ° 51 ’ S, 146 ° 15 ’ E). 1145 m, 816, wet sclerophyll, Nothofagus cunninghami, 29. i – 10. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 240, Berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (4, ANIC); Baw Baw Alpine Res., 1.2 km NE Neulynes Mill (37 ° 51 ’ S, 146 ° 15 ’ E). 1145 m, 816, wet sclerophyll, Nothofagus cunninghami, 29. i – 10. ii. 1987, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, Newton, M. Thayer (4, ANIC); Ben Cairn, northeast slope, NW Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 37 ’ E), 960 m, 820, wet sclerophyll, Nothofagus cunninghami, 30. i – 11. ii. 1987, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (6, ANIC, FMNH); Bulga N. P., 550 m, 17. v. 1978, log litter & fungi, S. & J. Peck (1, ANIC); Cement Creek, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 42 ’ E), 670 m. 812, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, Eucalyptus regnans - Nothofagus cunninghami, pyrethrum fogging fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (11, ANIC, FMNH); Cement Creek, Warburton, 10 – 17. i. 1980, Nothofagus cunninghami etc., flood bebris, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Cumberland Scenic Res., SW Cambarville, Cora Lynn Falls (37 ° 34 ’ S, 145 ° 53 ’ E), 880 m, 824, Eucalyptus regnans, Nothofagus cunninghami, 5. ii. 1987, pyrrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Lake Mt. Alpine Res., E Marysville, Gerraty; s (37 ° 31 ’ S, 145 ° 52 ’ E), 1330 m, 823, wet sclerophyll forest, 5. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 256, berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Mt. Donna Buang, 1200 m, 11 – 17. i. 1980, Eucalyptus - Nothofagus forest, A. Newton, M. Thayer (5, ANIC, FMNH); Mt. Donna Buang, N of Warburton (37 ° 43 ’ S, 145 ° 41 ’ E), 1200 m, 810, wet sclerop [hyll, Nothofagus cunninghami, 26. i – 11. ii. 1987, FMHD # 87 - 216, Berlesate leaf & log litter, A. Newton, M. Thayer (5, ANIC); Tanjil Bren, 6.1 km ESE (37 ° 50 ’ S, 146 ° 12 ’ E), 590 m, 818, wet sclerophyll forest, 29. i – 10. ii. 1987, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (5, ANIC); Tarra-Bulga N. P., Grand Ridge Rd. at Traralgon-Balook Rd. (38 ° 25 ’ S, 146 ° 34 ’ E), 690 m, 928, ridge top open Eucalyptus - Acacia forest, 13 – 25. ii. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 90, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC); Tarra-Bulga N. P., Tarra Valley near picnic area (38 ° 27 ’ S, 146 ° 32 ’ E), 340 m, 928, cool temperate rainforest, 13 – 25. ii. 1993, FMHD # 93 - 87, ex window trap, A. Newton, M. Thayer (1, ANIC); Tarra Valley N. P. 450 m, 17. v. 1978, under bark & in fungi, S. & J. Peck (6, ANIC); Warburton, Acheron Way, 495 m, 11 – 16. i. 1980, 2 nd growth forest, berlesed from leaf litter, A. Newton,. M. Thayer (2, ANIC); Warburton, 2.2 km N on Acheron Way (37 ° 44 ’ S, 145 ° 43 ’ E), 320 m, 931, Eucalyptus regnans forest w / Acacia dealbata, 15. ii. 1993, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (6, ANIC); Warburton, 2.2 km N on Acheron Way (37 ° 44 ’ S, 145 ° 43 ’ E), 320 m, 931, Eucalyptus regnans forest w / Acacia dealbata, 27. ii. 1993, pyrethrum fogging old fungusy logs, A. Newton, M. Thayer (3, ANIC); Wilson’s Promontory N. P., Lilly Pilly Tr., 14. v. 1978, Eugenia litter, S. & J. Peck (6, ANIC).	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
E52C87D73D29FF84FF744DF22ED3F8E2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from eastern VIC but probably occurs in montane regions of NSW or the ACT. Biology. This species was most often collected by pyrethrum fogging, but a number of specimens were collected by hand under bark of logs, in berlesates of sifted log and leaf litter, and in flight intercept / trough traps. Etymology. Derived from the state of Victoria.	en	Lawrence, John F. (2019): New species of Eucinetus and Noteucinetus from Australia (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucinetidae). Zootaxa 4668 (2): 151-182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.1
