Typophorus apicicornis (Jacoby, 1891)

Gómez-Zurita, Jesús & Maes, Jean-Michel, 2022, New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America, Neotropical Entomology 51 (5), pp. 705-721 : 718

Typophorus apicicornis (Jacoby, 1891)

( Figs. 5l , 6d )

New species record: JGZC: female ( JGZC-2591 ), Managua, Montelimar, Reserva Natura , 11.87659 -86.88130, 36 m, 24 January 2012, J. Gómez-Zurita, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena & A. Papadopoulou leg., Typophorus apicicornis Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .

This species of Typophorus Erichson, 1847 , was previously known only from Panama ( Bechyné 1953; Flowers 1996), and it is relatively easy to identify based on chromatic pattern. The individuals are dark reddish brown with four darker spots on elytra, which are faint but visible in the Nicaraguan specimen, and the antennae have antennomeres 6–10 black and the remaining antennomeres pale, including the apical one ( Fig. 6d ). The legs of T. apicicornis are dark reddish brown with apex of tibiae and femora black, a contrast that also occurs in the Nicaraguan specimen although it is difficult to appreciate because of its generalized dark color. Punctation of the Nicaraguan specimen also fits the type. The only specimen available for study is a female and the spermatheca is figured for future reference ( Fig. 5l ). As with most species reported in this work, the presence of the species in Nicaragua greatly expands the range of the species in a significant part of Central America.

Figures

Fig. 5 Spermathecae of Brachypnoea modesta anima- toria (Bechyné) (a), Chrysodi- nopsis cupriceps (Lefèvre) (b), Colaspis jalapae (Bechyné) (c), Megascelis spinipes Jacoby (d), Metachroma panamense Blake (e), Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefèvre) (f), Paria nigritar- sis Jacoby (g), Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) (h), Spintherophyta ignita (Lefèvre) (i), S. minuta (Jacoby) (j), Talurus tortonesei Bechyné (k), Typophorus apicicornis Jacoby (l), T. cyanipennis Lefèvre (m), and T. subbrunneus Jacoby (n). Scale bar=0.2 mm

Fig.6 Dorsal views of the new records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae in the tribe Typo- phorini, including Metachroma panamense Blake (a), Paria nigritarsis Jacoby (b), Tijucana vitticollis (Jacoby) (c), Typopho- rus apicicornis Jacoby (d), T. cyanipennis Lefèvre (e), and T. subbrunneus Jacoby (f). Scale bar=1.0 mm