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5E538809D5A054AEA5E1699E3DA6C600.text	5E538809D5A054AEA5E1699E3DA6C600.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa Moore 1963	<div><p>Theprisa Moore, 1963</p> <p>Theprisa Moore, 1963b: 285 (type species Phersita convexa Sloane, 1920: 156) by original designation.</p> <p>Diagnosis.</p> <p>This genus is diagnosable within Moriomorphini by: 1, mesosternum broad between mesocoxae; 2, mandibular scrobe present, margined ventrally by a lateral expansion; 3, mesotibia gracile, not expanded apically; 4, apical two maxillary palpomeres and apical labial palpomere apparently glabrous; 5, prosternal process not margined apicoventrally; 6, elytral striation nearly complete, striae 1-7 all developed apically, and striae 6-8 as deep or only slightly shallower than striae 1-5 near elytral midlength (Liebherr 2020). The mandibles are moderately elongate, with the mandibular length measured from the anterior condyle 1.7-1.9 × distance from anterior condyle to apicolateral margin of labrum. The ligula is broadly rounded to truncate apically, bisetose, with the two setae separated by 2-3 diameters of the setal articulatory sockets. The paraglossae are elongate and thin, their overall length 2-3 × the distance from the paraglossal base to the apical ligular margin. The mentum tooth is present, its apex narrowly rounded to subacuminate and its lateral margins upraised. Both lateral and basal pronotal setae are present. The elytra lack dorsal setae except for T. otway sp. nov., which has a single dorsal seta near midlength. The parascutellar seta is present. There are 13 lateral elytral setae associated with the eighth stria, arranged in an anterior series of seven setae and a posterior series of six, and both subapical and apical elytral setae are present. As in many moriomorphines, the apical portion of interval 8 immediately laterad stria 7 is upraised as a distinct carina. Also, the metathoracic flight wings are vestigial in all Theprisa, with the metepisternum foreshortened; its maximum width subequal to greater than the lateral length.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E538809D5A054AEA5E1699E3DA6C600	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
936E7F35464354FDA3AAE17365619711.text	936E7F35464354FDA3AAE17365619711.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa otway Liebherr, Porch & Maddison 2021	<div><p>Theprisa otway Liebherr, Porch &amp; Maddison sp. nov. Figures 1A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A, 9</p> <p>Holotype</p> <p>♂ (ANIC). 38.39S 143.42E VIC / Haines Junct. 525 m 1.9 km / W. on Turton's, Track / 809 26Jan.-8Feb. 1987 / A. Newton &amp; M. Thayer // wet scler. forest / pyrethrin fogging / fungus logs / Euc. regnans // Theprisa otway sp. n. / measured specimen #1 / det. J.K. Liebherr 2020 // HOLOTYPE ♂ / Theprisa otway / J.K. Liebherr, N. Porch / D.R. Maddison 2020 (black-margined red label).</p> <p>Paratypes.</p> <p>Victoria: Otway Ranges [sclerophyll forest approaching rain forest in ravines, some Nothofagus; logs, stones, drowning; ~ 600 m (Darlington 1960)], Darlingtons [12-13]-iv-1957 (MCZ, 11); Otway N. P., Elliot R. 5.5 km W Marengo, wet sclero. forest, FMHD #87-262, Berl. leaf and log litter, 38°47'S, 143°37'E, 80 m, Newton &amp; Thayer, 8-ii-1987 (FMNH, 3), roadside, C119 1 km S Tanybryn, road to Sabine Falls, pyr. fogging mossy logs, 38°37.07'S, 143°43.80'E, Seago &amp; Brandley, 28-xi-2006 (EMEC, 1; OSAC, 1), Triplet Falls track, Eucalyptus forest, raking litter, 38°40.235'S, 143°29.690'E, 300 m, Liebherr, 14-ii-2011 lot 03 (CUIC, 1), Turton's, track, 1 km ENE, Seaview Ridge Road junction, Mountain Ash forest, berlesate of deep litter against tree and under treeferns, 38°38.34'S, 143°37.30'E, 505 m, Porch, 15-iii-2019 (MVM, 1; NPC, 1).</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>(n = 5). This species is diagnosable among Theprisa spp. by the broad body and the presence of a dorsal elytral seta immediately mesad the third stria near elytral midlength (Fig. 1A). The pronotum is broad, MPW/PL = 1.38-1.46. The pronotal median base is sparsely punctate medially, with the marginal bead greatly reduced, evidenced only as a broad, slightly depressed area along the medially expanded base, in contrast to the narrowly upraised, distinct marginal bead posterad the laterobasal depressions. Whereas elytral striae 1-4 are crenulate on the disc (i.e., lined by punctures that expand the strial breadth) striae 5-7 are progressively broader and smoother, 6-7 slightly wavering along length but impunctate. In contrast T. australis, T. darlingtoni, and T. montana have striae 1-7 smooth, and T. convexa has striae 1-7 punctate near midlength. Apical abdominal ventrite of male with a single seta each side along margin, female apical ventrite with two setae each side plus a median pair of subapical setae. Standardized body length is 5.9-6.3 mm.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Head narrow, ocular lobe little projected, juncture with gena very obtuse; eyes small, EyL/OLL = 0.65-0.70, not projected beyond curvature of ocular lobe, 17-20 ommatidia bisected by a horizontal line across eye; antennomeres 2 and 3 glabrous except for one dorsal seta on 2 and an apical ring of setae on 3; antennae moderately elongate, antennomere 9 maximal breadth 2 × length; frontal groove deeply, medially arcuate from anterior supraorbital seta to frontoclypeal suture and continued onto lateral reaches of clypeus, area laterad groove distinctly convex; slightly concave apical labral margin 6-setose, with three smaller setae lining the lateroapical margin; mentum tooth narrowly rounded apically, sides subparallel; maxillary stipes trisetose, the three setae on the base in either a triangle with apex upward, or in an irregular horizontal line; ligula slightly convex apically, narrowed basally, trumpet shaped, its two apical setae separated by three setal diameters; paraglossae elongate, total length 2.5 × distance from paraglossal base to ligular apical margin. Pronotum transverse, lateral margins straight anterad projection defined by articulatory socket of basal seta; basal margin nearly straight, the obsoletely margined median base projected posterad only slightly beyond the lateral beaded margins posterad the laterobasal depressions; median base smooth at middle, ~ 10 small punctures each side mesad deepest point of laterobasal depression; pronotal disc extended to basal marginal bead defining a tubercle that divides laterobasal depression into a median longitudinal groove and a broad lateral marginal depression inside the basal seta; median longitudinal depression deepest just anterad median base, deeply incised to very shallow, broad anterior transverse impression; anterior callosity nearly flat, front margin smooth medially, margined in outer half each side; front angles broadly, slightly protruded, subangulate; lateral marginal depression very narrow from front angle to basal 1/4 of length where it expands to meet laterobasal depression; lateral pronotal seta positioned one setal diameter inside lateral marginal depression. Prosternum medially depressed mesad anterior margins of procoxal cavities, up to 16 punctures present in a transverse band across apical 1/4 of prosternum, ~ 10 punctures each side of prosternum in depressed area anterad coxal cavity; proepisternum smooth, sutural groove with proepimeron smooth and deep. Elytra broadly hemi-ovoid, MEW/EL = 0.81-0.86, convex, sides vertically meeting lateral marginal depression; basal groove arcuate, juncture with lateral marginal depression tightly rounded, a broad, blunt tooth on margin at juncture; lateral marginal depression narrow; stria 8 deep, continuous between anterior and posterior series of lateral setae; apical carina of interval 8 narrowly upraised along stria 7, interval 8 a vertical lateral carina there; subapical sinuation evident, the internal plica visible ventrad deepest part of sinuation. Mesepisternum with ~ 8 shallow punctures in two vertical rows. Metepisternum wider than long, maximum width 1.8 × lateral length; metepimeron fused to metepisternum laterally. Legs gracile, femora narrow, meso- and metatibiae little expanded apically, of consistent diameter throughout apical half of length; metatarsomere 1 elongate, length 0.22 × tibial length, lateral sulci present on mesal and lateral faces just dorsad the ventrolateral setae. Abdominal ventrites 2-6 with 1-2 longitudinal wrinkles laterally; suture between ventrites 1 and 2 slightly curved anteriorly at midlength, ventrite 2 wrinkled within curve; suture between ventrites 2 and 3 complete laterally.</p> <p>Male genitalia (n = 2). Aedeagal median lobe robust, base broadly open on right side, basal margin thickened dorsad basal opening (Fig. 3A); median lobe apex broadly rounded, slightly extended beyond ostium with a large apical divot-like concavity at tip, surface of apex densely covered with pits; internal sac bearing a stout flagellum, with apex concavely scooped (Fig. 4A), a basal articulatory sclerite associated with flagellum; right paramere elongate, parallel sided in apical half with apex narrowly rounded (Fig. 5A), bearing 12-15 short setae along ventral margin in apical half, 2-4 setae on dorsal surface near apex, though with apex glabrous; left paramere broadest near midlength, apex narrower, parallel sided with rounded tip, ventral margin bearing 2-4 setae in apical 1/3, dorsal surface with two or three setae near apex, and apex with none or one seta; antecostal apodeme of abdominal segment IX rounded distally, the apical juncture of lateral arms broad (Fig. 6A).</p> <p>Female reproductive tract (n = 2). Bursa copulatrix columnar, length 1.25 × maximum breadth compressed under microslide cover slip, vagina translucent, broader apical portion of bursa staining more darkly with Chlorazol black (Fig. 7A); helminthoid sclerite present, rounded apically, not extended beyond juncture with spermathecal duct; spermathecal duct stout, sinuously recurved to meet spermatheca, length subequal to length of annulated spermathecal reservoir; spermathecal gland duct very thin, length twice that of spermathecal reservoir which it joins at reservoir base; spermathecal gland comprising sclerotized stem plus membranous reservoir bearing numerous ductules; gonocoxa bipartite, basal gonocoxite 1 with two apical fringe setae in one dissected specimen, two setae on right gonocoxa and one on left in second dissected specimen, median surface glabrous, membranous ramus present (Fig. 8A); apical gonocoxite 2 with base extended laterally, lateral margin arcuate, apex falciform; two lateral ensiform setae and one dorsal ensiform present; two apical nematiform setae set in fossa at apical 1/4 of apical gonocoxite length.</p> <p>Etymology.</p> <p>The species epithet is the mountain range from which this species is described, and based on current knowledge, precinctive. The epithet is to be treated as a noun in apposition.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat.</p> <p>Theprisa otway is restricted to the Otway Ranges (Fig. 9), with specimens collected in wet to mesic sclerophyll forest from 80-525 m elevations. The beetles are terrestrial, being discovered via raking litter, in a Berlese extraction of leaf and log litter, and via application of pyrethrin fog to logs of Eucalyptus regnans F. Mueller covered with fungus. The MCZ specimens were collected by the Darlington family in sclerophyll forest approaching rain forest in ravines, with some Nothofagus (Darlington 1960).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/936E7F35464354FDA3AAE17365619711	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
472CE67146395350A146D7C06A1AB419.text	472CE67146395350A146D7C06A1AB419.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa convexa (Sloane 1920)	<div><p>Theprisa convexa (Sloane) Figures 1B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8B, 9</p> <p>Phersita convexa Sloane, 1920: 158.</p> <p>Theprisa convexa Moore, 1963b: 285.</p> <p>Types.</p> <p>Lectotype male (SAMA) labelled by P. J. Darlington, Jr. hereby designated: card-mounted specimen with right antenna broken off distad pedicel, left mesoleg absent // Type // T. / Zeehan // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane // Lectoholo. / P. convexa / PJD Sl. [red paper label] // Phersita 9.11564 / convexa Sl. / Tasmania / TYPE [red ink vertically at right end of label] // SAMA Database No. 25-035536 // LECTOTYPE ♂ / Phersita / convexa / Sloane / M. Shaw &amp; J. K. Liebherr 2020 [black-margined red label]. By this action Zeehan, Tasmania is designated type locality.</p> <p>Sloane stated that this species was described from specimens inhabiting "Zeehan (Simson, No. 2123); Strahan and Waratah (Carter and Lea). Eleven specimens have been examined. (Sloane 1920: 158)." We account below for the 10 paralectotypes to accompany the lectotype in the type series to ensure that this species did not include a specimen of the Tasmanian T. darlingtoni, sp. nov., described below. Paralectotypes are numbered to correspond with a gallery of images of the specimens and labels (Suppl. material 1). The first three paralectotypes are deposited in the Sloane Collection (ANIC): 1 and 2, male (left) and female (right) mounted on single card] // Strahan / Tas: Lea / &amp; Carter // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane. // Co-type // Paratype [blue label of no significance as specimen is part of syntype series] // red rectangle with three holes // Paralectotype ♀, ♂ / Phersita / convexa Sloane / B. Sinclair &amp; J. K. / Liebherr 2020 [black-bordered red label]; 3, female: Zeehan / 12/91 [on reverse] // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane. // Co-type // Paratype // Paralectotype ♀ [as above]. The other seven paralectotypes that accompany the lectotype (SAMA) include: 4, male card mounted // Zeehan // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane // SAMA Database / No. 25-039812; 5 and 6, two teneral females separately card mounted, on single pin // 3123 [blue paper label] // Tasmania / A. Simson (2 labels) // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane // SAMA Database / No. 25-039813 // SAMA Database / No. 25-039814; 7 and 8, two specimens, gender not determined, separately card mounted, on single pin // Tasmania / A. Simson (2 labels) // 3123 [blue paper label] // Phersita 19594 / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane / Cotype [red ink vertically on right end of label] // SAMA Database / No. 25-039819 // SAMA Database / No. 25-039820; 9 and 10, two specimens mounted on one card, gender not determined // Waratah / Tas: Lea / &amp; Carter (2 labels) // Phersita / convexa Sl. / Id. by T. G. Sloane // Co-type // // SAMA Database / No. 25-039821 // SAMA Database / No. 25-039822. All paralectotypes in SAMA also bear a bottom label, one per pin: Paralectotype (s) / Phersita / convexa Sloane / M. Shaw &amp; J. K. Liebherr 2020 [black margined red label]. The discrepancy in recorded lot numbers 2123 in the published description versus 3123 on the specimen labels is adjudicated in favor of the specimen labels. Looking through registers at SAMA, we have not been able to locate this number, nor several similar missing numbers that also relate to various Tasmanian beetles from Simson.</p> <p>Extended diagnosis</p> <p>(n = 5). This species is aptly named due to the convex, domed elytra with depressed scutellar area (Fig. 1B). The elytra are narrowed basally, with the angulate humeri constricted laterally; HuW/MEW = 0.61. In keeping with the basally constricted elytra, the pronotum is more cordate than in the other species (MPW/BPW = 1.23-1.31) and the lateral margins are sinuate anterad the pronotal basal seta articulatory socket. The pronotal base is also unique in the genus, with the marginal bead continuously marked across its breadth, and the lateral portions of the basal margin posterad the laterobasal depressions angled anteriorly relative to the extended median base. The laterobasal depression is broadly quadrate, with a moderately upraised, punctate tubercle bordered medially by a deep impression laterad the median base, and laterally by a narrow longitudinal depression inside the broadly elevated lateral margin. The body surface is glossy, with the vertex covered with indistinct transverse lines joined into an elongate transverse mesh in parts, the pronotal disc glossy with micropunctures visible across the disc, and the elytral disc and apex subiridescent due to indistinct transverse line microsculpture. Apical abdominal ventrite of male with two setae each side along margin plus two widely spaced medial subapical setae nearly in line with the outer four apical setae, female apical ventrite with two setae each side plus a transverse line of three or four medial subapical setae. Standardized body length is 6.2-7.2 mm.</p> <p>Male genitalia (n = 6). Aedeagal median lobe robust, base broadly open on right side, basal margin extended as a sagittal crest dorsad basal opening (Fig. 3B); median lobe apex broadly and evenly rounded, extended only slightly beyond ostium, lateral surfaces of apex densely covered with large pits; internal sac bearing an apically narrowed lanceolate flagellum (Fig. 4B), its broadly sclerotized base extremely evident in uneverted specimens (Fig. 3B); right paramere elongate, evenly curved along length, gradually narrowed in apical half to tightly rounded tip (Fig. 5B), bearing 19-29 short setae along ventral margin in apical half, 2-9 setae on dorsal surface near apex, and with apex bearing 0-2 setae; left paramere slightly broader near midlength, apex slightly constricted before rounded apex, ventral margin usually glabrous (one individual with a single short ventral seta, a second with nine short setae), dorsal surface with 0-5 setae near apex, and apex with 0-2 setae present; antecostal apodeme of abdominal segment IX rounded distally, the apical juncture of lateral arms broad (Fig. 6B).</p> <p>Female reproductive tract (n = 1). Bursa copulatrix of vase-like configuration, vaginal area constricted relative to broader distal portion of bursa, length 1.25 × maximum breadth compressed under microslide (Fig. 7B); helminthoid sclerite present, rounded apically, not extended beyond juncture with spermathecal duct; spermathecal duct stout, sinuously recurved to meet spermatheca, length twice that of annulated spermathecal reservoir; spermathecal gland duct very thin, length half that of spermathecal reservoir which it joins at reservoir base; spermathecal gland comprising sclerotized stem plus membranous reservoir bearing numerous ductules; gonocoxa bipartite, basal gonocoxite 1 with single apical fringe seta, median surface glabrous, membranous ramus present (Fig. 8B); apical gonocoxite 2 with base narrow, lateral margin arcuate, apex acuminate; two narrow lateral ensiform setae and one dorsal ensiform present; two apical nematiform setae set in fossa at apical 1/4 of apical gonocoxite length.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat.</p> <p>Theprisa convexa is known from the mountainous western portions of Tasmania (Fig. 9), within the West, King, Central Highlands, and Northern Slopes biogeographic regions (IBRA 2012). The beetles are terrestrial, with specimens recorded from under decaying logs, in leaf litter associated with Nothofagus cunninghamii (Hooker) (Nothofagaceae), and from riverine forest with Eucryphia (Cunoniaceae), Richea (Ericaceae), N. cunninghamii, and tree ferns. Recorded habitats range 80-1200 m elevation. We have not had the opportunity to examine specimens reported by Eberhard and Giachino (2011), however the geographical expanse of collecting sites they reported agrees totally with our data, with the exception of additional outlying records herein from Christmas Hills, 35 km SW Smithton (Kethley, FMNH), and Trowutta (Madden, TMAG), northwest Tasmania (Fig. 9).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/472CE67146395350A146D7C06A1AB419	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
FAC55FB0571156529595116DA0E43957.text	FAC55FB0571156529595116DA0E43957.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa montana (Castelnau)	<div><p>Theprisa montana (Castelnau) Figures 1C, 3C, 4C, 5C, 6C, 7C, 8C, 9</p> <p>Drimostoma montana Castelnau, 1867: 112.</p> <p>Drimostoma alpestris Castelnau, 1867: 112 (synonymy Sloane 1920: 157).</p> <p>Phersita montana, Sloane, 1920: 156.</p> <p>Theprisa montana, Moore, 1963b: 285.</p> <p>Types.</p> <p>For Drimostoma montana, lectotype (MGDG), labeled: Dandenong // montana / Cast. (blue label) // TYPUS (red label) // LECTOTYPUS / Drimostoma / montana / Castelnau, 1867 (black-margined red label) // MUSEO GENOVA /Coll. Castelnau (Straneo 1941). For Drimostoma alpestris lectotype (MGDG), triangular platen mounted female // Drimost. Alpestris / Cast. // typus (red label) // LECTOTYPUS / Drimostoma / alpestris / Castelnau, 1867 (black-margined red label) // MUSEO GENOVA / Coll. Castelnau (Straneo 1941). Both types have the pronotal lateral margins distinctly sinuate anterad the hind angles, supporting Sloane's, (1920) synonymy of these names. Castelnau (1868: 198) lists the locality of D. montana as "Mountains of Dandenong, Victoria", and the locality of D. alpestris as "Mountains of Victoria" (Castelnau 1868: 199); these localities designated as type localities by Straneo's, (1941) lectotype designations.</p> <p>Extended diagnosis</p> <p>(n = 7). This is a large-bodied species, standardized body length 7.0-8.9 mm, with broadly based subparallel elytra, HuW/MEW = 0.67, and a cordate pronotum; the pronotal lateral margins sinuate before the hind angles (Fig. 1C). The eyes are larger than in T. australis, with ocular ratio 1.42-1.50, and 21-24 ommatidia crossed by a horizontal line bisecting the eye. The elytral striae are broad, smooth to slightly wavering along their length, and the discal elytral intervals are broadly convex. The pronotal basal marginal bead is continuous, with the margins posterad the laterobasal depressions only slightly angled forward relative to the median base. The pronotal median base bears 12-14 punctures each side isolated in a glossy surface, and the laterobasal depression is broadly, slightly tuberculate inside the broad lateral marginal depression just mesad the distinct, narrowly upraised lateral marginal bead. The body is dark, with piceous head capsule and pronotum, slightly paler rufo-piceous elytra, piceous ventral surface with only the proepipleuron, elytral epipleuron, and femora dark rufous. The cuticular surface is glossy, with the vertex glossy with indistinct transverse lines in irregular wrinkles across the surface, the pronotal disc with shallow transverse mesh microsculpture, sculpticells elongate, breadth 2-4 × length, and the elytra subiridescent, the surface covered with a fine, elongate transverse mesh. Apical abdominal ventrite of male with two setae each side along margin, female apical ventrite with two setae each side plus a median pair of subapical setae.</p> <p>Male genitalia (n = 5). Aedeagal median lobe moderately robust, elongate, base broadly open on right side, basal margin heavily sclerotized dorsad basal opening (Fig. 3C); median lobe apex rounded apically, but ventral margin straight to slightly recurved in apical half of length, tip extended only slightly beyond ostium, lateral surfaces of apex densely covered with large pits; internal sac bearing a dense field of microtrichia visible in uneverted specimens (Fig. 3C), and covering much of right side of internal sac ventrad flagellar complex (Fig. 4C); flagellum elongate, robust, with a broad base; right paramere elongate, evenly narrowed in apical half to rounded tip (Fig. 5C), bearing 6-17 short setae along ventral margin in apical half, 4-8 setae on dorsal surface near apex, and two longer setae at apex; left paramere broadest in basal half, slightly narrowed to rounded tip, ventral margin glabrous or with a single short seta near apex, dorsal surface with 0-2 setae near apex, and apex with 1-3 short or long setae present; antecostal apodeme of abdominal segment IX rounded distally, lateral arms robust, their distal juncture very broad (Fig. 6C).</p> <p>Female reproductive tract (n = 2). Bursa copulatrix of vase-like configuration, vaginal area constricted relative to broader distal portion of bursa, length subequal to maximum breadth compressed under microslide cover slip (Fig. 7C); helminthoid sclerite present, broadly rounded apically, not extended beyond juncture with spermathecal duct; spermathecal duct very thin, elongate, sinuously joining bursa to spermathecal reservoir, length approximately 2.5 × length of annulated spermathecal reservoir; spermathecal gland duct very thin, length half that of spermathecal reservoir which it joins at reservoir base; spermathecal gland comprising sclerotized stem plus membranous reservoir bearing numerous ductules; gonocoxa bipartite, basal gonocoxite 1 with single apical fringe seta, median surface glabrous, membranous ramus present (Fig. 8C); apical gonocoxite 2 narrowly subtriangular, base little extended laterally, lateral margin nearly straight basally adjacent to elongate lateral ensiform setae, apex narrowly rounded; two lateral ensiform setae and one dorsal ensiform present; two apical nematiform setae set in fossa at apical 1/4 of apical gonocoxite length.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat.</p> <p>Theprisa montana ranges in Victoria from the Dandenong Mountains, southeast to Gunyah and Tarra Valley (Fig. 9). Philip Darlington and family recorded specimens on Mt. Donna Buang at elevations ranging 450-1200 m (MCZ). One specimen was sifted from litter along a stream in Nothofagus forest at 1000 m elevation on Mt. Bullfight in the Yarra Ranges (ZMUC).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FAC55FB0571156529595116DA0E43957	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
95F9D46816955537BADB471CC1F34045.text	95F9D46816955537BADB471CC1F34045.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa australis (Castelnau)	<div><p>Theprisa australis (Castelnau) Figures 2A, 3D, 4D, 5D, 6D, 7D, 8D, 10</p> <p>Drimostoma australis Castelnau, 1867: 112.</p> <p>Theprisa australis Moore, 1963b: 285.</p> <p>Types.</p> <p>Lectotype male (MGDG): triangular platen-mounted male (aedeagus partly everted) // Drimost. / australis / Cast. // TYPUS (red label) // Montagne / albaiensis / &amp; Victoria // LECTOTYPUS / Drimostoma / australis / Castelnau, 1867 (red label) // MUSEO GENOVA / Coll. Castelnau. Castelnau (1868: 198) cites the locality of this species as "Mountains of Victoria"; that locality designated type locality by Straneo (1941).</p> <p>Extended diagnosis</p> <p>(n = 5). The nearly straight, completely margined pronotal basal margin, coupled with the obtusely angulate hind angles with the pronotal lateral margins straight anterad the angles, distinguish this species from other Theprisa (Fig. 2A). The pronotal base is broadly punctate, with 12-13 punctures each side of the median base, the punctate surface extended across the laterobasal depression to the hind angle. The elytra are moderately constricted basally, HuW/MEW = 0.64, and the elytral disc is moderately convex, the scutellum much less depressed relative to the disc than in T. convexa (Fig. 2). As in T. montana and T. darlingtoni, the elytral striae are smooth, only slightly wavering along their length. But individuals of this species are nearly always smaller, with standardized body length = 5.7-7.1 mm. The eyes are smaller than in T. montana, with ocular ratio 1.38-1.43, 15-17 ommatidia bisected by a line horizontally crossing the eye; and little convex, with the EyL/EyD ratio ranging 3.2-4.2. Body coloration is dark, with the piceous dorsal and ventral surfaces accompanied only by paler dark rufous pro- and elytral epipleura, and rufous femora. Cuticular microsculpture is well developed, with the vertex covered with an evident isodiametric mesh, and the pronotal and elytral discs covered with dense transverse lines resulting in a cyaneous iridescence. Apical abdominal ventrite of male bearing a single seta each side along margin, female apical ventrite with two setae each side plus a median group of 3-5 setae in two subapical rows.</p> <p>Male genitalia (n = 5). Aedeagal median lobe robust, base broadly open on right side, basal margin sclerotized dorsad basal opening (Fig. 3D); median lobe apex broadly rounded apically, ventral margin evenly curved to meet nearly straight apical face, tip not extended beyond ostium, lateral surfaces of apex densely covered with large pits; internal sac bearing a dark field of microtrichia visible in uneverted specimens (e.g., Fig. 3D), and covering much of right side of internal sac ventrad flagellar complex (Fig. 4D); flagellum elongate, slender, with a broad base well evident in uneverted specimens (Fig. 3D); right paramere slender, evenly curved basally and narrowly extended apically to tightly rounded tip (Fig. 5D), ventral surface lined with 13-23 setae in apical 3/4 of length, 1-3 setae on dorsal surface near apex, and apex glabrous or bearing a single seta; left paramere broadest in basal half, evenly narrowed to rounded tip, ventral margin glabrous or with a single short seta near apex, dorsal surface with 0-2 setae near apex, and apex glabrous; antecostal apodeme of abdominal segment IX angled distally, lateral arms gracile, their distal juncture only slightly broader than adjoining portions of lateral arms (Fig. 6D).</p> <p>Female reproductive tract (n = 2). Bursa copulatrix columnar, length 1.25 × maximum breadth compressed under microslide cover slip, vagina translucent, as broad as apical portion (Fig. 7D); helminthoid sclerite present, rounded apically, not extended beyond juncture with spermathecal duct; spermathecal duct stout, straight, length subequal to length of annulated spermathecal reservoir; spermathecal gland duct very thin, length twice that of spermathecal reservoir which it joins at reservoir base; spermathecal gland comprising sclerotized stem plus membranous reservoir bearing numerous ductules; gonocoxa bipartite, basal gonocoxite 1 with single, small apical fringe seta, median surface glabrous, membranous ramus present (Fig. 8D); apical gonocoxite 2 with base extended laterally, lateral margin arcuate, apex broadly rounded; two lateral ensiform setae and one dorsal ensiform present; two apical nematiform setae set in fossa at apical 1/4 of apical gonocoxite length.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat.</p> <p>Theprisa australis is broadly sympatric with T. montana in the mountains of Victoria east and southeast of Melbourne (Fig. 10). Localities where T. australis and T. montana have been collected syntopically include Gunyah, Mt. Baw Baw, Mt. Donna Buang, Sherbrooke Forest, Tarra Valley in Tarra-Bulga N. P., and Warburton. Individuals have been found in leaf and log litter associated with Eucalyptus regnans, E. delegatensis R. T. Baker, Nothofagus cunninghamii, and Blechnum ferns, and via application of pyrethrin fog insecticide to logs with fungal outgrowths (FMNH).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/95F9D46816955537BADB471CC1F34045	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
A497B6DA8CCC5CA4BB4E3B6877792F9C.text	A497B6DA8CCC5CA4BB4E3B6877792F9C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Theprisa darlingtoni Liebherr & Porch 2021	<div><p>Theprisa darlingtoni Liebherr &amp; Porch sp. nov. Figures 2B, 3E, 4E, 5E, 6E, 8E, 10, 11</p> <p>Holotype</p> <p>♂ (ANIC deposition of MCZ specimen): N. of Zeehan / Jan. '57 Tas / Darlingtons // MCZ ENT 00731903 // HOLOTYPE ♂ / Theprisa / darlingtoni / J.K. Liebherr &amp; N. Porch 2020 (red-margined black label). Field data for the type locality include: low, wet sclerophyll forest, rain forest in places (but much cleared); Jan 17-19, 1957; usual ground methods (under logs or stones, alongside water, or drowning leaf litter in water); mostly circa 8 miles north, and along Rosebery Rd. (Darlington 1960: 125).</p> <p>Allotypic paratype</p> <p>♀. Same label and deposition as holotype.</p> <p>Paratypes.</p> <p>Same label as holotype (MCZ, 8); Tasmania: Mt. Ben Lomond [sclerophyll forest, wet gullies; logs, stones, waterside, drowning, under bark], 900-1200 m, [5-10]-iii-1957, Darlingtons(MCZ, 1); Corinna [temperate rain forest incl. Nothofagus; logs, stones, waterside, drowning; low elevation], [14-17]-iii-1957, Darlingtons (MCZ, 5); Whyte R., Corinna Rd. [sclerophyll forest, temperate rain forest incl. Nothofagus; logs, stones, waterside, drowning; low elevation], [17-18]-iii-1957, Darlingtons (MCZ, 4); Blue Tier, NE Tasmania [temperate rain forest incl. Nothofagus, partly cleared; logs, stones, waterside, much drowning debris], ~ 600 m, [26-31]-iii-1957, Darlingtons (MCZ, 1); Gordon R. Gorge, btw. Sir John Falls &amp; Pyramid Is., 42.5749°S, 145.7169°E, 3-ii-1979, Howard (TMAG, 1); Frankland Range, 42.92°S, 146.01°E, 1-i-1991, Mesibov (TMAG, 1); Corinna, NW Tasmania, 4-xii-1999, Bouffard (CMNH, 1).</p> <p>Diagnosis</p> <p>(n = 5). T. darlingtoni is most similar to T. montana based on large body size; 7.4-8.0 mm versus 7.0-8.9 mm for T. montana. In both species the elytra are broad basally, here HuW/MEW = 0.66-0.67, with the lateral margins subparallel (Figs 1C, 2B), and the elytral striae smooth. But T. darlingtoni exhibits a much more pronounced tubercle laterad the deep, arcuate depression bordering the pronotal median base, and the pronotal lateral margins are only briefly sinuate laterad the basal pronotal seta (Fig. 2B), not concavely curved laterad the entire laterobasal depression as in T. montana (Fig. 1C). The elytral lateral marginal depression is also much broader in T. darlingtoni, with the rufous coloration of the depression contrasted to the rufopiceous interval 8, whereas the narrow lateral depression of T. montana is only slightly paler than interval 8. Cuticular microsculpture is well developed, with the vertex covered by a shallow but evident transverse mesh, the pronotal disc bearing a shallow transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 4 × length, and the elytral surface with silvery subiridescence due to the presence of dense transverse lines across the convex elytral intervals. The apical abdominal ventrite of both male and female bear three seta each side along the margin, the median pair in line with the outer two bilateral pairs.</p> <p>Description.</p> <p>Head robust, ocular lobe protruded, its juncture with gena obtuse; eye diameter small relative to elongate head capsule, surface not projected beyond curve of ocular lobe, EyL/OLL = 0.69-0.71, but ocular ratio moderate, 1.40-1.46, and horizontal line across eye bisecting 21-25 ommatidia; antennal scape robust, diameter 1.4 × apical diameter of pedicel; antennomeres 2 and 3 glabrous except for one dorsal seta on the pedicel and apical ring of setae on 3; antennae elongate, antennomere 9 maximal breadth 2.14 × length; frontal groove broad, deep, the surface of impression irregularly strigose, the two grooves laterally arcuate, defining an ovoid raised area on frons, divergent from frontoclypeal suture to lateral margin of clypeus; broadly, deeply emarginate apical margin of labrum lined with six (rarely seven) setae, six smaller setae visible along anterolateral labral margin; mentum tooth narrowly rounded apically, sides acutely divergent; maxillary stipes trisetose, the three setae on the base in either a triangle with apex upward, or in an irregular horizontal line; ligula truncate apically, narrowed basally, trumpet shaped, its two apical setae separated by three setal diameters; paraglossae elongate, total length 3 × distance from paraglossal base to ligular apical margin. Pronotum moderately transverse, lateral margins straight to slightly concave anterad acutely projected margin at basal pronotal seta; basal margin smoothly, convexly curved across width, the unmargined median base not projected beyond curve defined by distinct lateral margins posterad laterobasal depressions; median base depressed below disc, smooth basally, an arcuate line of isolated punctures each side along juncture with disc; longitudinal depression consisting of medial, deep, arcuate impression and a nearly smooth lateral tubercle, a few small punctures laterad tubercle near lateral marginal depression inside hind angles; median longitudinal impression present on median base as a series of isolated punctures, on disc consisting of lenticular depression at median base-disc juncture, and an irregular, deeply incised impression on disc; anterior transverse impression obsolete, very shallow, the median longitudinal impression continued anterad halfway across flat anterior collar of pronotum; pronotal anterior margin smooth medially, a narrow marginal bead increasingly more well developed in outer 2/3 of width each side; front angles protruded, tightly rounded; lateral marginal depression moderately narrow, broad enough so that cuticular sculpticells visible mesad beaded, raised margin; margin of lateral pronotal seta articulatory socket adjoining lateral marginal depression. Prosternum deeply canaliculate from prosternal process halfway to anterior prosternal margin, smooth over much of surface but with a few punctures or strigae at proepisternal suture anterad coxal cavity; proepisternum smooth, sutural groove with proepimeron smooth and deep. Elytra broadly ellipsoid, MEW/EL = 0.75-0.78, moderately convex, sides meeting lateral marginal depression nearly vertically, disc between striae 4 flat at midlength; basal groove arcuate, pitted at bases of striae 1-5, a small acute tooth present at juncture of groove and lateral marginal depression; stria 8 very deep and continuous between anterior and posterior series of lateral setae; apical carina of interval 8 narrowly upraised along stria 7, interval 8 a vertical lateral carina there; subapical sinuation abrupt, the internal plica visible ventrad deepest part of sinuation. Mesepisternum broadly punctate, ~ 19-22 punctures in 3-4 confused vertical rows. Metepisternum trapezoidal, maximum width subequal to lateral length; metepisternal-metepimeral suture complete. Legs gracile, the femora elongate and meso- and metatibiae only slightly broadened in apical half; metatarsomere 1 moderately elongate, length 0.20 × tibial length, lateral sulci present on mesal and lateral faces just dorsad the ventrolateral setae. Abdominal ventrites 2-6 smooth laterally, but hind margins of ventrites 2-5 concavely sinuate laterally, the sutures deeper in association with sinuation; suture between ventrites 1 and 2 deep, slightly curved anteriorly at midlength; suture between ventrites 2 and 3 complete laterally.</p> <p>Male genitalia (n = 5). Aedeagal median lobe elongate, moderately robust, base broadly open on right side, basal margin heavily sclerotized dorsad basal opening (Fig. 3E); apical face joined to slightly arcuate ventral margin at right angle, flattened tip not extended beyond ostium, lateral surfaces of apex smooth or with only several indistinct pits; internal sac largely membranous, with only very elongate flagellum and associated basal articulatory sclerites darker (Figs 3E, 4E); right paramere elongate, slightly angled at midlength, apex narrowly rounded, slightly asymmetrical in outside lateral view (Fig. 5E), bearing 10-19 short and long setae along ventral margin in apical half, 2-4 setae on dorsal surface near apex, two or three setae at apex; left paramere broadest in basal half, narrowed in apical half but broadened apically to broadly rounded tip, ventral margin with 3-7 setae near apex, dorsal surface glabrous or with a single seta, and apex with two or three longer setae; antecostal apodeme of abdominal segment IX angulate distally, lateral arms gracile, their distal juncture only slightly broadened (Fig. 6E).</p> <p>Female reproductive tract (n = 1). Bursa copulatrix columnar, length 1.5 × maximum breadth compressed under microslide cover slip, vagina translucent, apical portion of bursa staining more darkly with Chlorazol black (Fig. 11); helminthoid sclerite present, broadly rounded apically, not extended beyond juncture with spermathecal duct; spermathecal duct thick, sclerotized, coiled sinuously to spermatheca, length twice that of annulated spermathecal reservoir; spermathecal gland duct very thin, length half that of spermathecal reservoir which it joins at reservoir base; spermathecal gland comprising sclerotized stem plus membranous reservoir bearing numerous ductules; gonocoxa bipartite, basal gonocoxite 1 with single apical fringe seta, median surface glabrous, membranous ramus present (Fig. 8E); apical gonocoxite 2 with base extended laterally, lateral margin arcuate, apex narrowly rounded; two lateral ensiform setae and one dorsal ensiform seta present; two apical nematiform setae set in fossa in apical 1/4 of apical gonocoxite length.</p> <p>Etymology.</p> <p>This species honors Professor Philip J. Darlington, Jr., who among his many roles, systematically collected carabid beetles across Australia, and served as the first post-doctoral supervisor for Dr. Terry L. Erwin (Kavanaugh 2020). Terry championed a Darlingtonian world view regarding the diversification of carabid beetles (Erwin 1981), never losing sight of those questions that tied both men to primary observations made over long careers spent in the field.</p> <p>Distribution and habitat.</p> <p>Theprisa darlingtoni is known from localities spanning northern and western Tasmania, from Blue Tier on the east to Corinna in the northwest, to the Frankland Range in southwest Tasmania (Fig. 10). Collecting localities lie within the Ben Lomond, Central Highlands, and West biogeographic regions (IBRA 2004). It has been collected syntopically with T. convexa at three localities: Corinna (Bouffard, CMNH), Whyte River at Corinna Road (Darlingtons, MCZ), and Zeehan (Simson, SAMA, and Darlingtons, MCZ), although these respective 1891 and 1957 collections were separated by 66 years. The five sites at which the Darlington family collected this species (Blue Tier, Corinna and nearby Whyte River, Mt. Ben Lomond, and Zeehan) were reported to support sclerophyll forest, wet sclerophyll forest, temperate rain forest with Nothofagus, and wet gullies, with specimens at all localities collected under logs and stones, along water sources, and via immersion of leaf litter in standing water (Darlington 1960).</p> <p>Phylogenetic analysis</p> <p>Parsimony analysis finds two cladograms of 380 steps, with the strict consensus collapsing one node within representatives of Neonomius (Fig. 12). Monophyly of the five Theprisa spp. is recovered and this clade is adelphotaxon to a clade comprising Spherita and Sitaphe. This sister-group relationship was not recovered in Liebherr (2020), but that analysis was comprehensive taxonomically, and this less so as it was focused only on demonstrating monophyly of Theprisa. In the current analysis, there is also very high support for the adelphotaxon relationship of Sitaphe + Spherita (Fig. 12). There is substantial support within the morphological character data for Theprisa monophyly, with the genus obtaining a decay index value of 6. Several characters unambiguously support Theprisa monophyly. The uniquely pitted aedeagal apex observed in four of the five species (character 97, state 1; Fig. 3A-D) has not been observed in any other moriomorphine. The prosternum is grooved laterally about halfway along its length each side near the proepisternum (character 41, state 1), a condition not observed in the included taxa except for New Zealand's, Tarastethus spp. and Trichopsida pretiosa (Broun), though those taxa exhibit a series of pits in this position. The metepisternum and metepimeron are fused laterally (character 64, state 1), no doubt in association with the extremely reduced metathoracic flight-wing apparatus. And the eyes are small, with the ocular lobe ratio (EyL/OLL) less than 0.72 (character 18, state 0), though T. montana exhibits variation in this character with some individuals having larger eyes. Finally, the spermathecal gland has a well-sclerotized stem (Figs 7, 11; character 103, state 1), a condition evolved independently in the clade subtended by Pterogmus (Fig. 12; Liebherr 2019).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A497B6DA8CCC5CA4BB4E3B6877792F9C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liebherr, James K.;Porch, Nick;Shaw, Matthew;Sinclair, Bronte E.;Maddison, David R.	Liebherr, James K., Porch, Nick, Shaw, Matthew, Sinclair, Bronte E., Maddison, David R. (2021): Systematic revision of the trans-Bassian moriomorphine genus Theprisa Moore (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 1044: 339-373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1044.62335
