ZooKeys AIS: 133-167 (2014) A peer-revi iewed open-access journa 1] doi: 10.3897/zookeys.4 15.6623 RESEARCH ARTICLE #ZooKey WWwW.ZOO keys.o rg Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition of the Uloma isoceroides species group (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini), with the description of four new species Laurent Soldati'*', Gael J. Kergoat'***, Anne-Laure Clamens!’, Hervé Jourdan?', Roula Jabbour-Zahab31, Fabien L. Condamine** | NRA, UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier SupAgro), Campus de Baillarguet, 34988, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France 2. IRD, UMR 237 IMBE (IRD, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Université d'A- vignon et des pays de Vaucluse), Centre IRD de Nouméa, 98848, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie 3 CNRS, UMR 5175 CEFE (CNRS, Université Montpellier 2), 1919 Route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France 4 CNRS, UMR 7641 CMAP (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique), Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France T Attp://zoobank.ore/B1795703-9439-4572-BC41-C01171062B7D * Attp://zoobank.org/D763F7EC-A1 C9-45FF-88FB-408E3953F9IA8 § Attp://zoobank. org/DOABC503-75A3-4DB4-9409-6F308 124A 1E1 | Attp://zoobank. org/CO57F5A8-8355-4778-B318-06A 1 131408F2 Q) /ttp://zoobank. org/12A8478C-2759-4C03-9532-FOC28B8B5CEB # /ttp://zoobank. org/27BF1 16A-15A1-4D4C-A259-B5D9059A578C Corresponding author: Fabien L. Condamine (fabien.condamine@gmail.com) Academic editor: P Bouchard | Received 15 November 2013 | Accepted 3 March 2014 | Published 12 June 2014 http://zoobank.ore/6DB22FE6- 1042-4E38-BA 18-8 174028FA452 Citation: Soldati L, Kergoat GJ, Clamens A-L, Jourdan H, Jabbour-Zahab R, Condamine FL (2014) Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition of the Uloma isoceroides species group (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini), with the description of four new species. In: Bouchard PB, Smith AD (Eds) Proceedings of the Third International Tenebrionoidea Symposium, Arizona, USA, 2013. ZooKeys 415: 133-167. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.415.6623 Abstract New Caledonia is an important biodiversity hotspot with much undocumented biodiversity, especially in many insect groups. Here we used an integrative approach to explore species diversity in the tenebrionid genus Uloma (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Ulomini), which encompasses about 150 species, of which 22 are known from New Caledonia. To do so, we focused on a morphologically homogeneous group by * ‘These authors have contributed equally and are considered joint first authors Copyright Laurent Soldati et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 134 Laurent Soldati et al. | ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) comparing museum specimens with material collected during several recent field trips. We also conducted molecular phylogenetic analyses based on a concatenated matrix of four mitochondrial and three nuclear genes for 46 specimens. The morphological study allowed us to discover and describe four new species that belong to the group of interest, the Uloma isoceroides group. Molecular analyses confirmed the spe- cies boundaries of several of the previously described species and established the validity of the four new species. The phylogenetic analyses also provided additional information on the evolutionary history of the group, highlighting that a species that was thought to be unrelated to the group was in fact a member of the same evolutionary lineage. Molecular species delimitation confirmed the status of the sampled species of the group and also suggested some hidden (cryptic) biodiversity for at least two species of the group. Al- together this integrative taxonomic approach has allowed us to better define the boundaries of the Uloma isoceroides species group, which comprises at least 10 species: Uloma isoceroides (Fauvel, 1904), Uloma opacipennis (Fauvel, 1904), Uloma caledonica Kaszab, 1982, Uloma paniei Kaszab, 1982, Uloma monteithi Kaszab, 1986, Uloma robusta Kaszab, 1986, Uloma clamensae sp. n., Uloma condaminei sp. n., Uloma jourdani sp. n., and Uloma kergoati sp. n. We advocate more studies on other New Caledonian groups, as we expect that much undocumented biodiversity can be unveiled through the use of similar approaches. Keywords Biodiversity hotspot, New Caledonia, New species, Phylogenetics, Taxonomy, Systematics, Tenebrionidae, Uloma Introduction New Caledonia, situated in the southwestern part of the Pacific region, is an old oce- anic island that is considered as an important biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000; Lowry et al. 2004). As such it harbours a high concentration of endemic species, especially in evergreen forests that are endangered by nickel mining, human-caused wildfires and biological invasions (Lowry et al. 2004). To counter these threats more surveys are needed, to gain a better knowledge of the species richness and its distribu- tion, which is desperately needed to support the establishment of relevant conservation policies (Bouchet et al. 1995; Mittermeier et al. 1996; Gargominy et al. 1996; Bouchet et al. 1998; Pascal et al. 2008). Through the advent of molecular systematics, taxonomists have increased species discoveries and documented unsuspected cryptic biodiversity on biodiversity hotspots (Pons et al. 2006; Monaghan et al. 2009; Vieites et al. 2009). For New Caledonia, several phylogenetic studies have been carried out on various endemic groups (e.g. Swenson et al. 2001; Bartish et al. 2005; Murienne et al. 2005; Robillard and Desutter- Grandcolas 2006; Balke et al. 2007a; Smith et al. 2007; Espeland et al. 2008; Murienne et al. 2008; Sharma and Giribet 2009; Espeland and Johanson 2010; Cruaud et al. 2012; Heads 2013). New Caledonian biodiversity is thought to be very ancient and slow accumulating, as attested by local relicts such as tree ferns, conifers (e.g. Agathis and Araucaria), early angiosperm lineages (e.g. Amborella), more derived angiosperms (e.g. Nothofagus, palm trees, Proteaceae), unique birds (RAynochetos), or harvestman in- vertebrates (Troglosironidae). Though the presence of these lineages is often interpreted as an indication of old vicariance events (Ladiges and Cantrill 2007; Heads 2008, Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 135 2013) numerous studies have indicated that the contribution of recent dispersals events is more likely (see Grandcolas et al. 2008; Keppel et al. 2009; Espeland and Murienne 2011; Cruaud et al. 2012; Pillon 2012 for reviews or meta-analyses). The geological evidence also emphasizes a dynamic recent history (Cluzel et al. 2001; Pelletier 2006; Schellart et al. 2006 but see Ladiges and Cantrill 2007; Heads 2013). The fact that most clades appear to have recently diversified implies that the morphological differ- entiation between species may be shallow and hard to detect even for specialists, which argues in favour of more integrative taxonomic approaches mixing molecular, morpho- logical, ecological, and geographic data (Padial et al. 2010; Schlick-Steiner et al. 2010). Because New Caledonia is still subjected to numerous threats (biological invasions, mining, forest logging and burning), a particular effort must be undergone to discover, document and protect its unique biodiversity. Although its categorization as a biodiver- sity hotspot is based on estimates of diversity on vascular plants and vertebrate groups, it likely also applies to other groups such as insects (Stork and Habel 2014). The insect fauna of New Caledonia included about 4000 known species in 1993 with an estimated total of 16,000 (Chazeau 1993). Specific surveys of various groups of New Caledonian insects have underlined very high proportions of endemics species (e.g. Balke et al. 2007b; Kuschel 2008; Espeland and Johanson 2010), which parallel those of plants (Novotny et al. 2006). Other factors such as environmental filtering (e.g. role of ultramafic soils; La- diges and Cantrill 2007; Espeland et al. 2008; Pillon et al. 2010) may also be invoked to explain this pattern. An example of recent increase in taxonomic knowledge through both morphology and molecular studies is in caddisflies (Irichoptera), for which 132 species were initially recorded from New Caledonia (of which 130 are endemic) (see also Balke et al. 2007b). Fifty-eight more species were recently discovered using a combination of data (Malm and Johanson 2007; Espeland and Johanson 2008a,b; Johanson and Keijsner 2008; Malm and Johanson 2008a,b; Ol4h and Johanson 2008), and more than 200 un- described species so far are present in the collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Espeland et al. 2008). Altogether this demonstrates the need for a more complete biodiversity inventory in order to set more adequate conservation priorities for the future. In the darkling beetle family (Coleoptera, ‘Tenebrionidae), the proportion of New Caledonian species that are endemic is extremely high (215 out of 234 species; Kaszab 1982, 1986). The species richness of New Caledonian tenebrionids is also likely under- estimated, because few studies (and no molecular-based studies) have been conducted on this group since Kaszab’s monographic works on the archipelago (Kaszab 1982, 1986). In this study we chose to focus on Uloma (Tenebrioninae, Ulomini), a genus with a worldwide distribution that encompasses at least 150 species (Matsumoto and Nishikawa 1986), of which 22 are endemic to New Caledonia (Kaszab 1982, 1986). Most of these species cannot be reliably assigned to a homogeneous species group (Kaszab 1982, 1986). The only exception is a group of five species (U. caledonica, U. isoceroides, U. monteithi, U. paniei and U. robusta), which share the following combi- nation of characters: (i) head short and broad; (ii) male with clypeus and frons located in the same plane, not impressed along the frontoclypeal suture, flat, with a shagreened dull surface; (iii) metathorax very short; (iv) flightless. 136 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Here we aim at exploring species diversity in this group by comparing the speci- mens we collected through several field missions in New Caledonia with material from several collections and museums. We also use molecular phylogenetics that allows us to: (i) reconstruct the evolutionary history of the group; (ii) assess species boundaries within the group and confirm the existence of potential new species. Material and methods Sampling of specimens Specimens were collected during several biodiversity surveys undergone between March 2008 and November 2011 in New Caledonia (project ANR BIONEOCAL). Most speci- mens were caught by hand through a careful examination of fallen branches, rotten logs and standing trees (either unhealthy or dead). In addition, we used headlamps at night to find and collect specimens where they were most active. For this study we tentatively included all specimens that possibly belonged to the group of interest. We also included specimens from Uloma opacipennis, as preliminary analyses conducted on a larger mo- lecular dataset indicate that this species is potentially a member of the group of inter- est. Morphological examinations of specimens allowed us to determine that the sampled specimens likely corresponded to seven distinct morphospecies (see Table 1 and the Tax- onomy results), of which four could not be assigned to any known species. As outgroups, we also used two morphologically unrelated species of Uloma that are not distributed in New Caledonia (Uloma freyi endemic to the Fiji Islands, and Uloma rufa widespread in Europe). Uloma rufa was used to root the tree based on the results of Kergoat et al. (2014). DNA extraction and sequencing Total DNA of 46 specimens was extracted following the non-invasive protocol of extrac- tion of Gilbert et al. (2007). Four mitochondrial gene fragments were sequenced, namely 687 bp of the cytochrome oxidase I (COI), 458 bp of the cytochrome b (Cyt b), 380 bp of the ribosomal 12S RNA (12S), and 532 bp of the ribosomal 16S RNA (16S). Three nuclear gene regions were sequenced, namely 746 bp of the domain D2-D3 of the 28S ri- bosomal DNA (28SD2-D3), 459 bp of wingless (Wg), and 1881 bp of the 18S ribosomal DNA (18S). All these genes were chosen because they are known to be informative in phy- logenetic analyses of tenebrionid beetles (Papadopoulou et al. 2009, 2010; Condamine et al. 2013) or in other coleopteran groups (McKenna et al. 2009; Kergoat et al. 2011; Deuve et al. 2012). Polymerase chain reaction amplifications were performed with stand- ard settings for primer sequences and thermocycler procedures (see Belshaw and Quicke 2002; Kergoat et al. 2004, 2005; Wild and Maddison 2008 for additional information). The PCR products were processed by the French sequencing centre Genoscope using a BigDye 3.1 sequencing kit and Applied 3730xl sequencers. The resulting 137 Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 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All the sequences generated in this study were deposited in GenBank (KJ509982-KJ51017, see Table 1 for details). For all protein-coding genes (COI, Cyt b and Wg), we used Mesquite 2.75 (available at: www.mesquiteproject.org) to check coding frames for possible errors or stop codons. Alignment of non-coding genes (12S, 16S, 28SD2-D3, and 18S) was carried out us- ing Muscle (Edgar 2004) with default option settings. The combination of the seven gene fragments resulted in a matrix of 46 taxa and 5143 aligned characters. Phylogenetic analyses Maximum likelihood (ML) analyses were performed with the raxmlGUI package v1.3 (Silvestro and Michalak 2012), which relies on RAxML v.7.4.2 executables (Stamatakis 2006). We used partitioned analyses (Nylander et al. 2004) with one partition for the mitochondrial genes and one partition for the nuclear genes. For each partition, we com- bined a general time reversible (GTR) substitution model with a CAT (category) model, which optimizes the evolutionary rate of individual sites using a fixed number of rate categories. To account for by the fact that numerous sites were invariable we also added an additional parameter to the model (+; proportion of invariable sites). Then we conducted 100 independent runs with corresponding GTR +CAT +I models. Support of trees was assessed using 1000 non-parametric bootstrap replicates. Nodes supported by bootstrap values (BV) = 70% were considered as strongly supported following Hillis and Bull (1993). To determine putative molecular species clusters on our dataset we then use Pois- son tree processes (PTP) models (Zhang et al. 2013). Because this approach does not require ultrametrization of trees (and its associated biases), it constitutes an elegant alternative to other species delineation models such as the General mixed Yule coales- cent model of Pons et al. (2006). With the PTP model, speciation or branching events are modelled in terms of number of substitutions (represented by branch lengths), so it only requires a phylogenetic input tree. Corresponding analyses were conducted on the web server for PTP (available at http://species.h-its.org/ptp/) using the best ML tree resulting from the raxmlGUI analysis. Morphological study Specimens examined for this study are deposited in the following institutions and col- lections (all collection codes follow Evenhuis (2008)): BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. BPBM Hawaii, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, USA. CBGP Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France. 140 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) CS Collection Soldati, Montpellier, France. HNHM ~— Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. IRSNB Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium. MNHN- Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. MTD Museum ftir Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. QM Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia. USNM National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., USA. Specimens were glued on glue boards, then pinned, labelled and dry stored in insect boxes. The glue used (Cléopatre™ ref. AD110P) to secure the specimens on the glue boards is water soluble and completely reversible. Male genitalia were also dis- sected and glued on the same glue board that their respective specimens. Pictures of specimens were taken by L. Soldati using the focus stacking system Entovision™ on the imaging platform of the CBGP. Morphological terms used in this study follow the terminology of Matthews and Bouchard (2008) and Matthews et al. (2010). Results Molecular phylogenetics The ML analyses yield a best ML tree with a likelihood score of -11607.44 (Fig. 1). All the nodes that lead to putative taxa (i.e. morphospecies) are well-supported (BV = 70%). All members of the group of interest are recovered in a well-supported clade (BV of 92%). Within this clade, the representatives of the Uloma jourdani sp. n. are in a sister position to all remaining NC representatives. Then, two major clades can be distinguished, each of them corresponding to three morphospecies. In the first, the two representatives of U. isoceroides are sisters to U. clamensae sp. n. and U. condaminei sp. n. In the second U. kergoati sp. n. is sister to a clade encompassing representatives of U. caledonica and U. opacipennis. At the intraspecific level it is also worth highlighting the fact that representa- tives of U. jourdani sp. n. are clustered into two well-differentiated clades (respectively supported by a BV of 77% and 96%). Regarding molecular species delimitation, the PTP analyses recover nine putative species clusters (see Fig. 1) for the seven sampled morphospecies belonging to the group of interest. Additional species clusters were found in U. isoceroides (two distinct clusters encompassing one individual each) and U. jourdani sp. n. (two distinct clusters encompassing six and four specimens, respectively). Taxonomy The Uloma isoceroides species group is named after Uloma isoceroides, the first described species of the group (page 182 in Fauvel 1904). This constitutes 10 species, four of Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 141 Uloma rufa Uloma freyi LSOL.00996 77 | Vioma jourdani (2) LSOL.02243 100 Uloma jourdani (2) LSOL.02209 Uloma jourdani (2) LSOL.02242 Uloma jourdani (2) LSOL.02158 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02202 100 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02201 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02265 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02263 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02292 Uloma jourdani (1) LSOL.02294 82 Uloma isoceroides (2) LSOL.01250 a 92 Uloma isoceroides (1) LSOL.01144 96 Uloma clamensae LSOL.01336 Uloma clamensae LSOL.02021 “) Uloma condaminei LSOL.02130 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02147 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02126 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02142 93 70 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02127 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02129 Uloma condaminei LSOL.02108 Uloma kergoati LSOL.01805 100 7 Uloma kergoati LSOL.01122 Uloma kergoati LSOL.01806 Uloma kergoati LSOL.01012 Uloma kergoati LSOL.01587 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02144 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.01360 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02206 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.01020 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02250 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02237 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02236 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02251 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02261 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02193 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02185 Ulama opacipennis LSOL.02184 ) Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02260 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02225 Uloma opacipennis LSOL.02224 0.02 Figure |. Maximum likelihood tree resulting from the analysis of the combined dataset. Support of major nodes is provided by BV (only BV = 50% are figured). For the group of interest we used coloured frames to highlight the seven sampled morphospecies (Uloma caledonica, U. clamensae, U. condaminei, U. isoceroides, U. jourdani, U. kergoati and U. opacipennis). On the right, corresponding male habitus are also included for illustrative purpose. Results of the PTP analysis are provided using coloured branches. Putative molecular species are indicated using transitions between blue-coloured branches to red-coloured branches. For the two cases (for U. isoceroides and U. jourdani) in which two distinct putative species clusters are inferred we added numbers into brackets to indicate the assignation of specimens to a specific species cluster. which are new. All but one (U. opacipennis) can be characterized by the following combination of characters: (i) head short and broad; (ii) male with clypeus and frons located in the same plane, not impressed along the frontoclypeal suture, flat, with a shagreened dull surface; (iii) metathorax very short. Though Uloma opacipennis is mor- phologically distinct from the other members of the group (see the corresponding di- agnosis section) its inclusion is fully supported by the results of the molecular analyses. 142 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Uloma caledonica Kaszab, 1982 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_caledonica Figs 2A, 3A—B Uloma caledonica Kaszab, Folia Entomologica Hungarica 18: 87. Type locality. Saint Louis, Forét de Thi. Type specimens. Holotype male (BPBM). Paratypes: 11 males and 10 females (BPBM), two males and one female (USNM), three males (IRSNB), none examined; one male, original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1893, Coll. Ed. Fleutiaux” (MNHN); one male, original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie” (HNHM), both examined. Diagnosis. Uloma caledonica is one of the four species of the group in which the mentum of the male is completely glabrous and flat. It differs from these three species (U. jourdani, U. isoceroides and U. kergoati) by the longer metaventrite (between meso- and metacoxae approximately as long as a mesocoxa), the humeri slightly developed, the elytral striae of punctures strongly marked and developed to apex, and the pronotal punctation barely visible. The shape of the aedeagus is also unique among the New Caledonian Uloma species, with the parameres bottleneck-shaped and triangularly notched at the apex. Distribution. Kaszab (1982: 87) cited this species from the following localities: Saint-Louis (Forét de Thi), Riviere Bleue (Yaté), La Couéle-Yaté Rd., Mt Koghi, Nouméa, Ile des Pins. “Neukaledonien (Grande Terre SO, Ile des Pins)”. Additional localities. Mont Do (21°45.63'S, 166°00.15'E, ca 940 m) 6.III.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Parc Provincial de la Riviere Bleue, Refuge des Ornithologues (22°08.04'E, 166°39.19'S, ca 190 m) 4.X1.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat, EL. Condamine & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP). Uloma clamensae L. Soldati, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/D693C69B-FC2C-43D0-9BDC-93D7D95D26F5 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_clamensae Figs 3C—D, 4A, B, C, D, E Type specimens. Holotype male, pinned, with genitalia glued on the same card as the specimen itself. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Putchaté, Atéu, 23.IV.2009, E. Baby leg. / 20°59.39'S, 164°54.04'E, ca 370 m alt.” / Uloma clamensae m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, HOLOTYPE ¢ (red printed label) (MNHN); Paratypes, same data as Holotype: one female (MNHN), one male (CS). Diagnosis. Uloma clamensae is closely related to Uloma condaminei sp. n. The two species are so similar that the only reliable way to separate them is to compare their male genitalia. Uloma clamensae and U. condaminei can also be distinguished from all the other Uloma species of New Caledonia by the unique structure of the mentum in the male: the mentum pilosity is reduced to two apical hair tufts on each side (Fig. GF—G). Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 143 Figure 2. Habitus (dorsal view): A Uloma caledonica B Uloma isoceroides C Uloma monteithi D Uloma opacipennis E Uloma paniei F Uloma robusta. Scale bar: 5 mm. In the case of isolated females, the geographic distribution may distinguish U. clamensae from U. condaminei. Description. Length 9.0-9.5 mm; width 3.2-3.5 mm. Shining, pitchy dark brown. Antennae, mouthparts, legs and elytra reddish-brown. Head (Fig. 3E). Male: Transverse, genae straight in front of the eyes, then continuous in curved line with the clypeus. Frontoclypeal suture superficially impressed. Frons and clypeus fused, with shagreened dull surface, covered with extremely fine, sparse and barely visible punctures. Vertex convex, shining and separated from the frons by a trans- verse depression that extends behind the eyes. Tempora (densely) and vertex (sparsely) coarsely punctured. Female: in contrast to male, frontoclypeal area finely and quite densely punctate over a shining background. Frontoclypeal suture shallowly impressed. 144 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Figure 3. Aedeagus (tergal face and lateral view): A-B Uloma caledonica C-D Uloma clamensae E-F Uloma condaminei G-H Uloma isoceroides \-) Uloma jourdani K-L Uloma kergoati M-—N Uloma monteithi O=—P Uloma opacipennis Q—R Uloma robusta. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 145 D E Figure 4. Uloma clamensae: A habitus (dorsal view) B habitus (lateral view) © habitus (ventral view) D anterior tibia (upper face) E head (dorsal view). Scale bar: 5 mm. 146 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Antennae (Fig. 4E) gradually becoming transverse and expanded from antennomere 5. Antennomeres 5—9 flattened with apices more or less protruding in middle, especially 7". Mentum of the male (Fig. 4C) cordate, with two oblique lateral grooves near the base and two apical dense hair tufts, all arranged symmetrically in relation to mid- line; disc slightly concave longitudinally, unpunctured and shining. Male mentum of U. clamensae is similar to the one of U. condaminei (see Fig. 6F—G). Female mentum cordate but narrower, not transverse, with the two oblique lateral grooves merging at base to form a U-shape in between, disc flat, smooth and shining, without punctation. Pronotum: about 1.2 times wider than long, sides subparallels, widest around the middle. Rim on the anterior margin at middle usually obliterated, sometimes slightly visible; base unmargined, with exception of two very short folds located at the level of the two concave curves of external margin. Anterior angles 90° but smooth at the top and slightly protruding forward, posterior angles obtuse. Lateral rims becoming progressively thinner from the base toward the anterior angles. Whole upper surface of the pronotum very finely punctate, sparser on the disc but denser on the sides. Male: antero-median depression of pronotum well impressed, not reaching half of pronotal length, its posterior edge arcuate and delimited by four very faint elevations. ‘The lateral bumps anterolaterally bordering the depression low and not projecting to anterior edge. Interior of depression somewhat more strongly punctate than rest of pronotal surface. Female: pronotum regularly convex, without antero-median depression and over- all finely punctate. Prosternal process in lateral view obliquely bent beneath procoxae. Elytra quite convex, humeral angles of lateral margin protruding. Lateral margin barely visible in dorsal view except around middle. Each elytron bears nine grooved and punctured striae and a faint scutellary striole. Strial punctures slightly wider than grooves. Elytral intervals nearly flat on disc and becoming slightly convex laterally and toward apex, covered with fine and superficial punctation. Metaventrite short, length between meso- and metacoxae less than half the length of mesocoxa. Abdomen. Abdominal ventrites 1-4 (Fig. 4C) finely and superficially punctate on a narrow median longitudinal strip. On each side of this longitudinal strip, punctation becomes progressively larger and sparser toward the sides and the integument’s surface is slightly striate longitudinally. The apical ventrite covered with fine scattered puncta- tion, its outer margin without rim. Legs. Anterior tibiae (Fig. 4D) without carina on their upper face and strongly notched at the base of nearly half the length of inner side. Aedeagus: tergal face (Fig. 3C), with basal two-thirds of parameres bottleneck- shaped, then abruptly enlarged and securiform at the apex. In lateral view (Fig. 3D), parameres bisinuate and narrowed toward apex. Etymology. This new species is named after A.-L. Clamens, biologist and member of the “All Blaps” team. Distribution. Uloma clamensae is currently only known only from its type locality in New Caledonia. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 147 Uloma condaminei L. Soldati, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/8EEBB 1 BO-79AD-4FEB-930F-FAF3C358805C http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_condaminei Figs 3E-F, 5A, B, C, D, E, 6F—G Type specimens. Holotype male, pinned, with genitalia glued on the same card as the specimen itself. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Roches de Ouaiéme, 2.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille leg. / 20°38.333'S, 164°52.092'E ca 680 m alt.” / Uloma condaminei m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, HOLOTYPE 3S (red printed la- bel) (MNHN); Allotype female. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Roches de Ouaiéme, 2.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille leg. / 20°38.283'S, 164°52.010'E, ca 700 m alt.” / Uloma condaminei m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, ALLOTYPE @ (red printed label) (MNHN); Paratypes: one male (MNHN), one male and one female (CS): “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Roches de Ouaiéme, 4.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille leg. / 20°38.567'S, 164°51.607'E, ca 800 m alt.” / Uloma condaminei m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013; Paratypes: one male (CS), one male (HNHM) one female (CBGP), “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Roches de Ouaiéme, 4.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille leg. / 20°38.333'S, 164°51.947'E, ca 750 m alt.”/ Uloma condaminei m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013; Paratype: one male (CBGP) “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Roches de Ouaiéme, 1.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille leg. / 20°38.400'S, 164°52.285'E ca 600 m alt.” / Uloma condaminei m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013. Diagnosis. As underlined beforehand, Uloma condaminei is morphologically closely related to Uloma clamensae sp. n. It is also morphologically related to Uloma paniei Kaszab, 1982 and Uloma robusta Kaszab, 1986 with whom it shares a similar type of aedeagus. Uloma condaminei can be distinguished from the former two by looking at the pilosity of the mentum. In U. condaminei, mentum’s pilosity is reduced to two apical hair tufts on each sides (Fig. G6F—G) while in U. paniei and in U. robusta the sides of the mentum are completely fringed, from the lateral grooves to the ante- rior edge. Furthermore, the basal notch at the inner side of the anterior tibiae is larger and deeper (more than one-third of the inner side total length). The average size of U. condaminei is also smaller (8.0—10.0 mm instead of 10.5—12.2 mm). Description. Length 8.0—10 mm; width 3.24.0 mm. Shining, pitchy dark brown. Antennae, mouthparts, legs and sometimes elytra reddish-brown. Head: (Fig. 5E) Male: Transverse, genae rounded and continuous in curved line with the clypeus. Frontoclypeal suture not grooved. Frons and clypeus fused in a flat shagreened and dull surface covered with extremely fine, sparse and barely visible punctures. Vertex convex and separated from the frons by a light transverse depression that links the tempora together behind the eyes. Tempora (densely) and vertex (sparsely) coarsely punctured. Female: contrary to the male, the frontoclypeal area is finely punctate and shining and, at the location of the suture, there is a slight curved depression. Antennae (Fig. 5E) gradually becoming transverse and expanded from antenno- mere 5. Antennomeres 5—7 flattened with the apical edges more or less lobate and dull. 148 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) D E Figure 5. Uloma condaminei: A habitus (dorsal view) B habitus (lateral view) C habitus (ventral view) D anterior tibia (upper face) E head (dorsal view). Scale bar: 5 mm. Mentum (Figs. GF—G) similar to U. clamensae, cordate, flat, with two oblique lateral grooves near the base and two apical dense hair tufts (Fig. GF), all arranged symmetrically in relation to midline; disc unpunctured and shining. In the female, Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 149 Figure 6. Uloma condaminei: F forebody (lateral view) G forebody (ventral view). The arrows show the apical hair tufts on the mentum. 150 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) the mentum’s shape is rounder, the two oblique lateral grooves are closer, longer and deeper so that the midline appears to be convex and the anterior emargination very light. Pronotum: about 1.2 times wider than long, sides weakly arcuate, widest around the middle. Rim on the anterior margin disappears completely on a short length in the middle; base unrimmed, with exception of two short folds located at the level of the two concave curves of external margin. Anterior angles 90°but smooth at the top and slightly protruding forward, posterior ones obtuse. Lateral rims becoming progressively thinner from the base toward the anterior angles. Whole upper sur- face of the pronotum finely and densely punctate, sparser on the disc but denser on the sides. Male: antero-median depression of pronotum well impressed, not reaching half of pronotal length, its posterior edge arcuate and delimited by four very faint elevations. The lateral bumps anterolaterally bordering the depression low and not projecting to anterior edge. Interior of depression somewhat more strongly punctate than rest of pronotal surface. Female: pronotum regularly convex, without antero-median depression and over- all punctate. Prosternal process in lateral view obliquely bent beneath procoxae. Elytra quite convex, humeral angles of lateral margin protruding. Lateral margin barely visible in dorsal view except in the middle. Each elytron bears nine grooved striae of punctures and a faint scutellary striole. Strial punctures are slightly wider than grooves. Elytral intervals nearly flat on disc and becoming slightly convex laterally and toward apex, covered with fine and superficial punctation. Metaventrite short (Fig. 5C), between meso- and metacoxae about as long as the length of a mesocoxa. Abdominal ventrites 1-4 (Fig. 5C) finely and densely punctate on a narrow medi- an longitudinal strip. On each side of this longitudinal strip, punctation becomes pro- gressively larger and sparser toward the sides and the integument’s surface is slightly striate longitudinally. The anal ventrite finely and sparsely punctate, its outer margin without rim, except a very short fold on both sides, just in front of the base. Anterior tibiae (Fig. 5D) with only a faint trace of carina on their upper surface and strongly notched at base of at least one-third of the length of the inner side. Aedeagus: on tergal face (Fig. 3E), the basal two-third of the parameres are bottle- neck-shaped, then suddenly enlarged and truncate at the apex. In lateral view (Fig. 3F), parameres are bisinuate and narrowed toward apex. Etymology. This new species is named after our friend and colleague Dr. BL. Condamine who was a PhD student at the time we prospected in New Caledonia. He is also a member of the “All Blaps” team. Distribution. Uloma condaminei is currently known only from New Caledonia where it is endemic. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 151 Uloma isoceroides (Fauvel, 1904) http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_isoceroides Figs 2B, 3G—H Melasia isoceroides Fauvel, Revue d’Entomologie 23: 180, 182. Uloma isoceroides Fauvel, Gebien H. 1911, Tenebrionidae III. In: Schenkling S (Ed) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol.18: 402. Type locality. Baie du Prony, Mont Mou, Ourail, Kanala. Type specimens. Lectotype male and paralectotypes (designated by Kaszab 1982) males and females of Melasia isoceroides Fauvel (IRSNB), none examined. Diagnosis. Uloma isoceroides is one of the four species of the group in which the mentum of the male is completely glabrous and flat. It can be separated from U. cal- edonica by the shorter metaventrite, (between meso- and metacoxae hardly longer than half of the length of a mesocoxa) and the humeri not developed. It differs from U. jourdani by the outer margin of terminal ventrite (anal sternite) regularly arcuate, with- out lateral sinuosities, the mentum as long as broad or longer, not cordate. Moreover, all the male antenomeres are shining and the aedeagus is different. It differs also from U. kergoati by the elytral striae of punctures normally marked and developed to the apex, the pronotum quite densely and sharp punctate, and the different aedeagus. Its size is also smaller in average (7.0-8.8 mm). Aedeagus (Fig. 3G, H) similar to the one of U. caledonica (with the parameres bottleneck-shaped) but truncate (not notched) at the apex. Distribution. Kaszab (1982: 86) cited this species from the following localities: Baie du Prony, Mt Mou, Ourail, Mt Rembai, Mt Do, Kanala [Canala], Plaine des Lacs, Pic du Pin, Riviere Bleue, Mt Koghi, Nouméa. “Neukaledonien (Grande Terre, Zentral Massiv und SW”. Additional localities. Monts Koghis (22°10.63'S, 166°30.49'E, ca 460 m) 411.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Réserve Botanique de Bois du Sud (22°10.41'S, 166°45.83'E, ca 210 m) 8.[II.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Plateau de Dogny (21°37.03'S, 165°53.05'E, ca 920 m) 29.X.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & FL. Condamine rec. (CBGP); Massif forestier de la Tchamba (21°00.71'S, 165°15.58'E, ca 200 m) 8.IV.2009, L. Soldati, G.J. Ker- goat, H. Jourdan & EL. Condamine rec. (CBGP). Discussion: As underlined by the results of the PTP molecular species delimita- tion analyses, there is potentially some level of cryptic diversity for this species. One putative species corresponds to the material collected in the Plateau de Dogny, whereas the other putative species corresponds to material collected in the Tchamba forest mountain range. Further studies based on a larger sampling from additional localities should clarify this finding and possibly discern one or more cryptic species. P52 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Uloma jourdani L. Soldati, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/390037E3-3B06-48F9-A784-0A23B2117BC8 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_jourdani Figs 3I-J, 7A, B, C, D, E Type specimens. Holotype male, pinned, with genitalia glued on the same glue board as the specimen itself. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 13.X1.2010, Jourdan & Mille rec. / 20°32.268'S, 164°40.903'E, ca 640 m NC130-2a” / Uloma jourdani m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, HOLOTYPE © (red printed label) (MNHN); Allotype female, pinned. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédo- nie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 14.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.290'S, 164°40.967'E, ca 620 m NC139-2a” / Uloma jourdani m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, ALLOTYPE 8 (red printed label) (MNHN); Paratypes: one male (MNHN) and one female (CBGP): “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 13.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.268'S, 164°40.903'E, ca 630 m; Paratypes: two males (CBGP): “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 13.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.268'S, 164°40.903'E, ca 640 m” ; Paratypes: one male (CS): “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 12.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.265'S, 164°40.843'E ca 620 m” ; Paratypes: one male and one female (CS): “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 14.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.262'S, 164°41.092'E ca 620 m’; Paratype: one female (CS): “Nouvelle-Calé- donie, Massif du Panié, Dawenia, 14.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille / 20°32.290'S, 164°40.967'E ca 620 m”. Other material. one male, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Panié, Wewec, forét sur pente, 20°35.63'S, 164°43.66'E ca 420 m, 8.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec.; one female, Massif du Panié, La Guen, 20°37.48'S, 164°46.83'E ca 580 m, 23.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec.; one female, Massif du Panié, La Guen, 20°37.50'S, 164°46.83'E ca 590 m, 19.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec.; two males and one female, Massif du Panié, La Guen, 20°37.50'S, 164°46.83'E ca 590 m, 18-25.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec.; one male, Massif du Panié, La Guen, 20°37.50'S, 164°46.92'E ca 570 m, 18.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec. Diagnosis. The completely glabrous and flat mentum of U. jourdani males is also found in U. caledonica, U. isoceroides and U. kergoati. Uloma jourdani can be distinguished from U. caledonica by its shorter metaventrite (the part between meso- and metacoxae hardly longer than half of the length of a mesocoxa), by the reduced humeri and also by different male aedeagus. It differs from U. isoceroides and U. ker- goati by the shape of the terminal ventrite (anal sternite), by the presence of a dull shagreened patch on the upper face of male antennomeres 5—7 and also by differences in male aedeagus. Description. Length 8.0-9.0 mm; width 4.0-4.2 mm. Shining, pitchy dark brown, elytra often brighter, dark red-brown. Antennae, mouthparts, legs and elytra reddish-brown. Head (Figs 5): Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... liste, D E Figure 7. Uloma jourdani: A habitus (dorsal view) B habitus (lateral view) C habitus (ventral view) D anterior tibia (upper face) E head (dorsal view). Scale bar: 5 mm. Male: Transverse, genae straight just in front of the eyes, then continuous in curved line with the clypeus. Frontoclypeal suture shallowly impressed. Frons and clypeus fused in a shagreened and dull surface covered with extremely fine, sparse and barely visible punc- 154 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) tures. Vertex convex, shining and separated from the frons by a deep transverse impression that extends behind the eyes. Tempora and vertex (more sparsely) coarsely punctured. Female: contrary to the male, the frontoclypeal area is finely and densely punctate over a shining background. ‘The frontoclypeal junction is slightly convex and there are two feebly impressed oblique lateral lines at the place of the clypeogenal suture. In between, the transversal line of the suture is barely visible. Antennae (Fig. 7E) gradually becoming transverse and expanded from antenno- mere 5. Antennomeres 5—9 flattened with the apical edges more or less protruding in the middle, especially the 7°. In the males, antennomeres 5-7 are dull and shagreened on their upper face only. Mentum (Fig. 7C) transverse, cordate, flat, with two oblique lateral grooves ar- ranged symmetrically in relation to midline; disc flat, covered with a dense, extremely fine and horizontally confluent punctation. In the female, the mentum is similar to the male’s one, but the punctation is less dense and distinct. Pronotum: about 1.3 times wider than long. Sides narrow in light curve from rear to front, widest just in front of the base. Rim on the anterior margin obliterates completely in the middle; base unrimmed, with exception of two very short folds located at the level of the two concave curves of external margin. Anterior angles 90°but smooth at the top and slightly protruding forward, posterior ones obtuse. Lateral rims becoming progressively thinner from the base toward the anterior an- gles. Whole upper surface of the pronotum finely punctate, sparser on the disc but denser on the sides. Male: antero-median depression of pronotum well impressed, quite broad, not reach- ing half of pronotal length, its posterior edge arcuate and delimited by four very faint ele- vations. The lateral bumps anterolaterally bordering the depression’s sides forward are low. Female: pronotum regularly convex, without antero-median depression and over- all finely punctate, but denser on the sides. Prosternal process in lateral view in steep slope beneath procoxae. Elytra convex, slightly oval, sides not subparallel. Humeral angles of lateral margin feebly protruding and generally covered by the posterior angles of pronotum. Lateral margin invisible in dorsal view, except at the level of the humeral angles and at the rear of elytra. Each elytron bears nine grooved striae of punctures and a faint scutellary striole. Strial punctures are slightly wider than grooves. Elytral intervals flat on disc and becoming very slightly convex laterally - but not at the apex - covered with fine and superficial punctuation. Metaventrite short, between meso- and metacoxae, about half the length of a mesocoxa. Anterior tibiae (Fig. 7D) with only a faint trace of carina on their upper surface and strongly notched at base of at least one-fourth of the length of the inner side. Aedeagus: on tergal face (Fig. 31), the basal two-third of the parameres are bottle- neck-shaped, then slightly enlarged and securiform at the apex. In lateral view (Fig. 3)), parameres are bisinuate and narrowed toward apex. Etymology. This new species is named after our friend Dr. H. Jourdan (IRD Nouméa) great connoisseur of New Caledonia. He is also a member of the “All Blaps” team. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 155 Distribution. At present, Uloma jourdani is only known from the surroundings of Dawenia, in a valley situated at the foot of the western slopes of Mount Colnett in New Caledonia. Discussion. As underlined by the results of the PTP molecular species delimita- tion analyses, there is potentially some level of cryptic diversity for this species. One putative species correspond to the material collected in Dawenia (in the Panié moun- tain range), whereas the other putative species correspond to material collected in La Guen and Wewec (in the Panié mountain range). Both groups are apparently morpho- logically indistinguishable, but we cannot exclude the possibility that future studies may find some morphological differences between the two. To avoid complicating possible future taxonomic revisions, we chose to only select specimens from one of the two putative groups (i.e. the specimens collected in Dawenia) as reference for all the type material. Uloma kergoati L. Soldati, sp. n. http://zoobank.org/A06836E0-232 1-44B0-8828-8049CIEA7AAD http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_kergoati Figs 3K-L, 8A, B, C, D, E Type specimens. Holotype male, pinned, with genitalia glued on the same card as the specimen itself. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Kouakoué, 17-23. III.2008, H. Jourdan, G. Kergoat & L. Soldati leg. / 21°57.427'S, 166°32.294'E, ca 1280 malt. / Uloma kergoati m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, HOLOTYPE 3” (red printed label) (MNHN); Allotype female, pinned. Original label: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Massif du Kouakoué, 17-23.[1.2008, H. Jourdan, G. Kergoat & L. Soldati leg. / 21°57.427'S, 166°32.294'E, ca 1280 m alt. NC16-2b” / Uloma kergoati m. n. sp. L. Soldati det. 2013, ALLOTYPE 2 (MNHN)); Paratypes, same data as holotype: one female (MNHN), one male (HNHM), two males (CBGP), three males and one female (CS). Diagnosis. The completely glabrous and flat mentum of U. kergoati males is also found in U. caledonica, U. isoceroides and U. jourdani. \t differs from U. caledonica by its shorter metaventrite (hardly longer than half of the length of a mesocoxa), by the reduced humeri and also by differences in male aedeagus. It can easily be distinguished from U. jourdani by the shining surface of the upper face of all male antennomeres and the aedeagus. It also differs from U. isoceroides by the elytral striae of punctures that become finer and blurred toward apex; in addition, the male aedeagus of these two species are also very distinctive. Description. Length 8.0—11 mm; width 3.84.2 mm. Shining, pitchy dark brown. Antennae, mouthparts, legs and elytra reddish-brown. Head (Fig. 8E). Male: Transverse, genae straight in front of the eyes, then continuous in curved line with the clypeus. Frontoclypeal suture faintly impressed. Frons and clypeus fused in a flat shagreened and dull surface covered with extremely fine, sparse and barely 156 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) D E Figure 8. Uloma kergoati: A habitus (dorsal view) B habitus (lateral view) C habitus (ventral view) D anterior tibia (upper face) E head (dorsal view). Scale bar: 5 mm. visible punctures. Vertex separated from the frons by a superficial transverse impres- sion. Tempora coarsely punctured. Vertex with very fine and obsolescent punctures, the background dull like the frontoclypeal area. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 157 Female: contrary to the male, the frontoclypeal area is finely punctate and shining and, at the location of the suture, there is a shallow curved depression. Antennae (Fig. 8E) gradually becoming transverse and expanded from antenno- mere 5. Antennomeres 5—9 flattened with the apical edges more or less protruding. Mentum (Fig. 8E) cordate, flat, with two oblique divergent lateral grooves near the base. In the female, the mentum is narrower, the two oblique lateral grooves are closer, larger and less oblique (i.e. more parallel), the anterior margin is truncate. Pronotum. Male: about 1.2 times wider than long, sides nearly straight in the basal half, then regularly arcuate toward the anterior angles, widest in front of the middle. Rim on the anterior margin disappears in the middle at level of the antero-median depression; at the same place, the anterior margin is emarginate and concave. Base without rim, ex- cept two very short folds located at the level of the two concave curves of external margin. Anterior angles 90°, posterior ones slightly obtuse. Whole upper surface of the pronotum densely punctate, sparser on the disc but denser and finer on the sides. Antero-median depression of pronotum quite deep, not reaching half of pronotal length, its posterior edge arcuate with a slight median impression. Interior of antero-median depression more coarsely punctate than rest of pronotal surface, the ground dull and shagreened. Female: regularly convex, without antero-median depression and overall sharply and densely punctate, the punctures finer on the sides. Pronotum widest at base, then narrowed toward the front; the anterior edge tri-sinuate. Prosternal process in lateral view obliquely bent beneath procoxae. Elytra. Elytra quite convex transversally, humeri reduced. Humeral angles of lateral margin protruding and divergent (especially in the males); sides subparallel on one-third of the basal part, then regularly acuminate. Lateral margin visible in dorsal view except at level of ventrites 1-2. Each elytron bears nine grooved striae of punctures that tend to obliterate at the apex and a scutellary striole. Strial punctures are slightly wider than grooves. Elytral intervals nearly flat, covered with fine punctuation on a shining ground. Metaventrite short, between meso- and metacoxae about as long as half the length of a mesocoxa. Abdomen. Abdominal ventrites 1-4 (Fig. 8C) finely and densely punctate on a narrow median longitudinal strip. On each side of this longitudinal strip, the puncta- tion becomes progressively larger and sparser toward the sides before mixing up with longitudinal striae, except on the 4" ventrite where the striae are less developed. The anal ventrite finely punctate, sparsely toward the sides, its outer margin without rim. Legs. Anterior tibiae (Fig. 8D) without carina on their upper surface and strongly notched at base of about one fourth of the inner side length. Aedeagus. On tergal face (Fig. 3K), basal two-third of the parameres are bottle- neck-shaped, then suddenly enlarged and arcuate at the apex, with two lateral teeth on each side. In lateral view (Fig. 3L), parameres are bisinuate and narrowed toward apex. Etymology. This new species is named after Dr. G.J. Kergoat researcher at the CBGP, member of the “All Blaps” team and one of the “survivors” of the Kouakoué expedition. Distribution. Uloma kergoati is currently known only from New Caledonia where it is endemic. 158 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Uloma monteithi Kaszab, 1986 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_monteithi Figs 2C, 3M—N Uloma monteithi Kaszab, Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 78: 160. Type locality. Aoupinié, 20 km NE Poya. Type specimens. Holotype male. Original label: “NEW CALEDONIA, Aoupin- ié, 20 km NE Poya, 650 m, 18-19 May 1984, G. Monteith & D. Cook / Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Reg. N°T.10111 / Holotypus 1986 CS Uloma monteithi Kaszab” (QM); Paratypes (same data as Holotype): one female (QM) and one male (HNHM), all examined. Diagnosis. Among the Uloma isoceroides species group, Uloma monteithi can easily be distinguished by the mentum which is concave along the longitudinal axis (flat in all the other species of this group), shining, unpunctured. Male anterior tibiae strongly notched at base up to nearly half of the length of the inner face, then they extend straight to the apex. Pronotum upper surface finely punctate, sparser on the disc and denser on the sides. Elytra sharply striate-punctate, distinctly shallower at the apex. Elytral intervals quite flat, covered with extremely fine punctures, the background smooth and shining. Humeri not developed, metaventrite short like in isoceroides, wings reduced, flightless. Aedeagus (Fig. 3M—N). Length: 8.2-9.0 mm. Distribution. So far, only known from the type locality. Uloma opacipennis (Fauvel, 1904) http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_opacipennis Figs 2D, 3O-P Melasia opacipennis Fauvel, Revue d’Entomologie 23: 180, 182. Uloma opacipennis Fauvel, Gebien H. 1911, Tenebrionidae III. In: Schenkling S (Ed) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol.18: 403. Type locality. Baie du Prony, Nouméa. Type specimens. Lectotype male of Melasia opacipennis Fauvel (IRSNB); Paralec- totypes: two females of Melasia opacipennis Fauvel (IRSNB), none examined. Lecto- type and Paralectotypes designated by Kaszab (1982). Diagnosis. Uloma opacipennis can be distinguished morphologically from all other New Caledonian species by the structure of its elytra, the integument of which is dull and shagreened, by the presence of a tooth on the underside of the head capsule on the postgenal margin, by the glabrous mentum of the male whose disc is convex between the two lateral subparallel grooves which are long and nearly reach the anterior edge, and by its characteristic aedeagus (Fig. 3O, P). Elytral striae crisp. Striae 1-3 thinner Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 159 and shallower on the apical declivity. Rows of punctures dense and slightly wider than the striae. Antero-median depression of the pronotum in the male small and rounded. Pronotum finely and sparcely punctate. Male anterior tibiae slightly notched at base on the internal face. Male antennae distinctly expanded from 5" antennomere. Average size small: 7.0—7.5 mm long. Uloma opacipennis is morphologically unrelated to the other species of the Uloma isoceroides group. That said, molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate that it is a mem- ber of the same evolutionary lineage, hence its inclusion in the species group. On a morphological point of view, all the species of the Uloma isoceroides group, except U. opacipennis, share the following characters: Head short and broad. Male with clypeus and frons located in the same plane, not impressed along the clypeofrontal suture, flat, with a shagreened dull surface covered with extremely fine, sparce and barely visible punctation. Metaventrite short, between median and posterior coxae approximately as long as or hardly longer than half of the length of a median coxa. Humeri slightly de- veloped or reduced. Flightless species. On the contrary, in U. opacipennis the male head is normal, i. e. impressed along the clypeofrontal suture, not flattened and its surface is distinctly punctate. Metaventrite long, between median and posterior coxae longer than a median coxa. Humeri developed. Fully winged. Distribution. Kaszab (1982: 95) cited this species from the following localities: Mt Panié, 250 m; Houadou (Karovin, Houailou) Riv.; Col dAmieu, 500 m; Mon- tagne des Sources; Riviére Bleue; Mt Koghi, 450-600 m; les Loyauté: Lifou, Wu. “Neukaledonien (Grande Terre von NW bis SO); Loyauté (Lifou)”. Additional localities. Mont Koghis (22°10.63'S, 166°30.49'E, ca 460 m alt.) 411.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Mts Koghis, ca 400 m, 26 may 1984, G. Monteith & D. Cook (QM); Réserve botanique de Bois du Sud (22°10.41'S, 166°45.83'E, ca 210 m) 8.III.2008, L. Soldati, G.J. Kergoat & H. Jour- dan rec. (CBGP); Parc des Grandes Fougéres, Pic Vincent (21°36.16'S, 165°46.44'E, ca 690 m) 28.11.2008, L. Soldati, G. Kergoat & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Réserve de Yaté Barrage (22°09.23'S, 167°53.51'E, ca 270 m) 23.X.2009, L. Soldati, G.J. Ker- goat, RL. Condamine & H. Jourdan rec. (CBGP); Roches de Ouaiéme (20°38.28'S, 164°52.01'E, ca 700 m) 2.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec. (CBGP); Massif du Panié, La Guen (20°37.50'S, 164°46.83'E, ca 590 m) 18-25.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec. (CBGP); Massif du Panié, La Guen (20°37.42'S, 164°46.85'E, ca 590 m) 20.X1.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec. (CBGP); Massif du Panié, Dawenia (20°32.26'S, 164°40.90'E, ca 630 m) 15.XI.2010, H. Jourdan & C. Mille rec. (CBGP). Uloma paniei Kaszab, 1982 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_paniei Bic.o2 EB Uloma paniei Kaszab, Folia Entomologica Hungarica 18: 84. Type locality. Mont Ignambi. 160 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) Type specimens. Holotype male: “Nouvelle-Calédonie, Mt Ignambi, 2100 ft, 7.VIH.1914, leg. P. D. Montague” (BMNH); Paratypes: Mt Panie, 1911, PR D. Mon- tague (one male and one female, BMNH); Ignambi Gipfel, 1300 m, 15.IV.1911, leg. F Sarasin & J. Roux (one male, MTD); Panie Wald, 500 m, 27.V1.1911, leg. E Sarasin & J. Roux (one female, MTD); Mt Panier [misspelled], 1200 m, 9.X.1967, leg. J. & M. Sedlacek (two females, BPBM). None examined. Diagnosis. Within the Uloma isoceroides species group, Uloma paniei and Uloma robusta are the only species whose mentum of the male is adorned with two peripheral hair fringes along the sides and the front edge, leaving the disc glabrous. Both species have the male anterior tibiae shortly notched at base, maximum one third of the length of inner face. Size large (10.5-12.2 mm). Uloma paniei may be separated from U. ro- busta by the male anterior tibiae strongly and deeply notched at base of the inner face (up to one third of the inner side length), the disc of the mentum smooth and shining between the peripheral hair fringes in the males, the elytral surface shining, the striae deeper and expanded to the apex. The male aedeagus is similar in both species. It is un- fortunately impossible to identify the females on the basis of morphological characters. Distribution. Kaszab (1982: 84) cited this species from the following localities: Mt Ignambi, Mt Panié. “Neukaledonien (Grande Terre NW)”. Additional localities. Mt Panié, 450-950 m, 14 May 1984, G. Monteith & D. Cook (QM). Uloma robusta Kaszab, 1986 http://species-id.net/wiki/Uloma_robusta Figs 2F, 3Q-R Uloma robusta Kaszab, Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 78: 159. Type locality. Mont Panié. Type specimens. Holotype male. Original labels: “NEW CALEDONIA, Mt Panié, 1300-1600 m, 15 May 1984, G. Monteith & D. Cook / Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Reg. N°T.10108 / Holotypus 1986 ¢ Uloma robusta Kaszab” (QM); (QM); Paratypes (same data as Holotype): three females (QM) and one male (HNHM), all examined. Diagnosis. Uloma robusta closely resembles Uloma paniei and both species occur in the same area of the northeastern mountain range of New Caledonia. However, in U. robusta the male anterior tibiae are less strongly notched at base of the inner face (about one-fifth of the inner side length), the disc of the mentum is coarsely punctate between the peripheral hair fringes, except on a narrow mid-longitudinal strip, the elytral surface is shagreened and dull and the striae shallower with a tendency to obliterate toward apex (especially striae 2, 3, 6 and 7). In U. paniei, on the contrary, the disc of the mentum is smooth and shining between the peripheral hair fringes, the elytral surface shining, the striae deeper and clearly visible up to the apex. The male aedeagus is similar in both species. It is unfortunately im- possible to identify the females on the basis of morphological characters. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 161 Distribution. Uloma robusta is probably endemic to the Panié mountain range. Discussion. Uloma robusta is possibly a junior synonym of Uloma paniei. However, it was not possible for us to test this hypothesis based on the material we examine. Discussion Integrative taxonomy The use of a combined approach based on morphology and on molecular data allowed us to better circumscribe the boundaries within a morphologically homogeneous group of species and to define the characteristics of the Uloma isoceroides species group. Without the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses, it would have been impossible to deter- mine that U. opacipennis is a member of the same evolutionary lineage. The fact that U. opacipennis is in a derived position within the group also allow us to hypothesize that this taxon secondarily developed unique attributes of its own (elytra and head structures, shape of the aedeagus). The analyses of molecular species delimitation also provide more evidence to support the species status of the newly described species. It is especially the case for Uloma clamensae and U. condaminei, two species that are morphologically very close. In addition, the PTP analyses suggest some unsuspected cryptic biodiversity for two species (U. jourdani and U. isoceroides). For U. isoceroides, the fact that only two specimens were sequenced does not really allow us to confirm this hypothesis because of possible geographical sampling biases (Bergsten et al. 2012). On the contrary the sam- pling for U. jourdani is denser and the results are likely not artefactual. The two potential species U. jourdani clusters also have a disjunct distribution: members of the largest mo- lecular group (six individuals) were only collected in Dawenia (in the Panié mountain range) while the members of the smallest cluster (four individuals) were collected in La Guen and Wewec (also in the Panié mountain range, separated by less than 10 km). Be- cause members of both clusters are completely morphologically indistinguishable (even the males) we did not chose to describe two species. That said — as underlined in the results section — in the description of U. jourdani we chose to only use representatives of one cluster (the one from Dawenia) to provide type material. Alternatively we could have followed the views of several authors (e.g. Jorger and Schrédl 2013) who propose to use DNA sequence information as a line of evidence to describe cryptic diversity. Though we agree that this approach is another way of describing diversity, we prefer to remain conservative, pending the eventual discovery of diagnostic morphological characters. Conclusions The tenebrionid fauna of New Caledonia is rich and diverse with a level of high endemism: of the 238 species (including the four new species described here), 219 (92%) are unique to New Caledonia. By applying our integrative approach to a 162 Laurent Soldati et al. / ZooKeys 415: 133-167 (2014) broader sampling of Uloma or to other tenebrionid genera, we expect to discov- er new species in the genus Uloma but also in the well-diversified genera Lsopus Montrouzier, 1860 (Cnodalonini, 35 described species, Kaszab 1982, 1986) and Callismilax F. Bates, 1874 (Titaenini, 51 described species, Kaszab 1982, 1986). Such a high level of taxonomic endemism is not uncommon for several clades that diversified in New Caledonia; e.g. 94% of the New Caledonian cricket fauna is endemic to the archipelago (Robillard and Desutter-Grandcolas 2008). In addi- tion to the high endemism, the genus Uloma is of particular interest for the New Caledonian archipelago because it harbours a species diversity that is comparable to Australia (Australia has 27 species of Uloma while New Caledonia has now 26 species). In New Caledonia, despite the fact that most of Uloma species are wing- less, they have been able to colonize very distinct lowland and mountainous eco- systems (cloud forest, dry forests, evergreen forests, maquis). Some Uloma species appear to have allopatric distributions but sympatric distributions seem to be the predominant pattern (Kaszab 1982, 1986). Personal observations during fieldwork confirmed that up to four species could live in the same rotten trunk. The distribu- tion pattern for Uloma spp. can be qualified as microendemic because single moun- tains or specific mountain ranges usually harbour typical species communities. ‘This is best shown in the Mont Panié range where at least five species are known to live sympatrically (potentially six). Although the factors that have promoted such an extraordinary pattern of microendemism are still to be determined, we think that future phylogenetic-based analyses coupled with biogeographic and diversification inferences may bring answers to this issue (see for instance the study Condamine et al. 2013 on another group of darkling beetles). Acknowledgements We wish to thank the associate editor Patrice Bouchard, Chris Reid and one anony- mous reviewer for their constructive comments on a preliminary version of the man- uscript. We thank the Environmental Managements (DENV) of Province Sud and Province Nord in New Caledonia for providing us with collecting permits and assis- tance in New Caledonia. Field collection in New Caledonia was also possible thanks to direct support from the IRD center of Nouméa and the help of Christian Mille (Institut Agronomique néo-Calédonien). Otto Merkl (HNHM), Chris Burwell and Geoff Thompson (QM), Antoine Mantilleri and Olivier Montreuil (MNHN) pro- vided priceless assistance with the Coleoptera collections. Partial funding for this study was obtained through the program “ANR Biodiversité” of the French National Agency for Research (Project BIONEOCAL 2008-2012) and by proper funds from INRA for GJK and IRD for HJ. Part of the sequencing was also supported by the program “Bib- liothéque du Vivant” (Project CIAM) supported by a joint CNRS, INRA and MNHN consortium. No conflicts of interest were discovered. Integrative taxonomy of New Caledonian beetles: species delimitation and definition... 163 References Balke M, Pons J, Ribera I, Sagata K, Vogler AP (2007a) Infrequent and unidirectional colo- nization of hyperdiverse Papuadytes diving beetles in New Caledonia and New Guinea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 5005-516. 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