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Exochomoscirtes bipustulatus Ruta & Yoshitomi 2010, comb. nov.

Description

Exochomoscirtes bipustulatus (Champion, 1918) comb. nov.

Scirtes bipustulatus Champion, 1918: 219

Diagnosis. The species is externally very similar to E. bimaculatus Pic. Both species can be distinguished from remaining species of the genus on the basis of peculiar dorsal pattern. E. bimaculatus is smaller (TL of E. bipustulatus 4.95, TL of E. bimaculatus 3.75), has distinct prehensor, which is indistinct in E. bipuctulatus.

Redescription. Yoshitomi (2008).

Note. Champion (1918) mentioned in the original description that E. bipustulatus is similar to E. binotatus Pic, but the later species has distinctly larger elytral maculae.

Notes

Published as part of Ruta, Rafał & Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki, 2010, Revision of the genus Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae) 2598, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 2598 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2598.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10095059

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ruta & Yoshitomi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Exochomoscirtes
Species
bipustulatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Exochomoscirtes bipustulatus (Champion, 1918) sec. Ruta & Yoshitomi, 2010

References

  • Champion, C. G. (1918) New and little-known saltatorial Dascillidae. Entomological Monthly Magazine, 54, 93 - 103, 139 - 149, 188 - 198, 219 - 225, 256 - 273.
  • Yoshitomi, H. (2008) Redescriptions of the type material of eight scirtid species (Insecta, Coleoptera) in the Hope Entomological Collections in Oxford. Japanese Journal of systematic Entomology, 14 (2), 295 - 309.