Ecitonides volans Assing 2012

Ecitonides volans Assing, 2012 Fig. 8 Ecitonides volans Assing 2012: 402. Type locality. Peru • Huanuco: Panguana station at Rio Llullapichis, 9°37'S, 74°56'W, 260 m, G. Riedel leg. Type specimen examined. Holotype (NMW) male, dry pinned. Original labels: “ Peru, Huanuco Prov., Panguana station at Rio Llullapichis, 9°37'S, 74°56'W, 260 m, at light, 2. - 20. X. 2009, leg. G. Riedel ” // “ Holotypus Ecitonides volans sp. n. det. V. Assing 2012 ”. Diagnosis. Body less robust, head oval, pronotum longer than wide and subconical, and prominent tubercles over body as in E. brevicornis, E. fraterculus, E. longiceps, E. soesilae, and E. tuberculosus. From E. brevicornis and E. fraterculus, it differs by each elytron with five rows of tubercles (4 in E. brevicornis and 3 in E. fraterculus). From E. longiceps by larger eyes, from E. soesilae by denser tuberculate sculpture (with tubercles prominent and sparser and with tubercles slightly flattened in E. soesilae), and from E. tuberculosus by antennae of same length as head (almost twice longer than head in E. tuberculosus). Additional characters. Antennae with scape as long as antennomeres 2–4 combined; antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in size; antennomeres 4–10 longer than wide, of subequal size; antennomere 11 shorter than 10. Abdomen with tergites III – V and paratergites of III and IV with large tubercles. Distribution. PERU, Huanuco (Fig. 15). Host ant. Unknown.