نبذة مختصرة : Ischyomius escalonai Pollock, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 7DFC5962-B47E-4848-9608-C387CE58049B (Figs. 1-4) Type series . Holotype male, labeled: “ VENEZUELA, Lara, P.N. Yacambú, El Blanquito, 1400 m 26.VI.2005; Hermes Escalona, collector” / “coll. on bird of paradise ( Strelitzia ) dry leaves” / “ HOLOTYPE Ischyomius ♁ escalonai, sp. n. D. A. Pollock 2007 ”. Allotype female, same labels as holotype (with “ ALLOTYPE ” instead of “ HOLOTYPE ” on third label). Two paratypes, one male, one female, with same labels as Holotype (with “ PARATYPE ” instead of “ HOLOTYPE ” on third label). Holotype, allotype and female paratype deposited in Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola “Francisco Fernández Yepez”, UCV, Maracay, Venezuela (Luis J. Joly, curator). Male paratype deposited in collection of author. Derivation of specific epithet . I am very pleased to name this new species after friend and colleague Hermes Escalona, a fellow specialist on the “salpingid group” of tenebrionoid families, and who also collected all known specimens of this species. Diagnosis . This new species of Ischyomius may be separated from the rest of the genus by the following combination of characters: posterior pronotal bead indistinct; lateral pronotal bead not attaining anterior bead; color uniformly light to medium brown; abdominal ventrites with short but obvious setation; elytral apices rounded, without spine (Fig. 3) aedeagus relatively short and stout, accessory lobes very short, inserted midlength on the tegmen (Fig. 4); known only from Venezuela. Description . With generic characteristics of Ischyomius (see Pollock 1998: 246- 250), plus the following: total length (TL) 9.9-11.5 mm; greatest elytral width (GEW) 2.8-3.2 mm; body (Fig. 1) elongate (TL / GEW = 3.5-3.8) color uniformly light to medium brown dorsally, without obvious color contrasts, ventrally, thorax and abdominal ventrites slightly darker than legs and elytral epipleuron; eyes moderately protuberant; antennae relatively long, antennomeres filiform, slightly widened ...
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