Jurasai ypauoca sp. nov., the sixth species of Jurasaidae, with a key to species of the genus (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)

ABSTRACT

Jurasaidae are a small family of elateroid beetles. Jurasai Rosa, et al. 2020 is composed of four species, all occurring in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest and Caatinga biomes. Here, I describe the sixth species of the family, Jurasai ypauoca sp. nov., collected in a sample from a Malaise trap from the continental island of Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. I provide detailed illustrations of the new species morphology, along with a map of Jurasaidae species distribution. A key to the identification of Jurasai species is also presented.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C324AC50-1A8D-408A-B4A5-3394EEB4F202

KEYWORDS:

• Atlantic rainforest
• Malaise trap
• morphology
• taxonomy

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Drs Ricardo and Margarete Monteiro (Laboratorio de Ecologia de Insetos/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) for providing the samples from Ilha Grande; the staff at Ilha Grande State Park for supporting the research in fieldwork (authorization INEA No. 056/2016); the staff at Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos/UFRJ and Laboratório de Entomologia/UFRJ for field assistance and the use of the photographic system acquired by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), through grants Proc. 110.040/2014, 010.001641/2014 and 111.247/2014; Robin Kundrata and an anonymous reviewer for revising and helping to enhance the manuscript.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) under Grant Finance Code 001; CNPq under grant number 06105/2016-0.