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Pseudotelegeusis Wittmer 1976

  • 1. Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, A 1 - 107, Bloco A, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
  • 2. Roquette, 50000 Saint-Lô, France.

Description

Genus Pseudotelegeusis Wittmer, 1976

Pseudotelegeusis Wittmer, 1976: 293

Pseudotelegeusis – Zaragoza-Caballero, 2008: 369

Key to species of Pseudotelegeusis

1. Antennae moniliform (Mexico) ...................................... P. jiliotupaensis Zaragoza-Caballero, 2008

– Antennae serrate ............................................................................................................................... 2

2. Antennae serrate from antennomere IV to X, body yellowish brown, third antennomere slender, 1.6 times longer than wide (from original illustration) (Ecuador) ................... P. oculatus Wittmer, 1976

– Antennae serrate from antennomere III to antennomere X, third antennomere about as long as wide ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

3. Eyes protruding, vertex covering ³⁄ 5 of head (IOW/OL=1.45), body infuscate yellow with dark brown head, third antennomere slightly (1.16×) longer than wide, tergite IX with rounded apical margin, sternite IX as long as wide, lateral lobes of aedeagus apically broadly rounded (Peru) ........................................................................................................................ P. meloi sp. nov.

– Eyes not protruding, vertex covering ¾ of head (IOW/OL = 2.3), body dark brown, third antennomere slightly (1.16×) wider than long, tergite IX with straight apical margin, sternite IX longer than wide, lateral lobes of aedeagusapically narrowly rounded, racket-shaped (French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela) .................................................................................... P. howdeni Wittmer, 1976

Notes

Published as part of Roza, André Silva, Constantin, Robert & Mermudes, José Ricardo Miras, 2019, Pseudotelegeusis meloi sp. nov., the first Telegeusinae from Peru (Coleoptera: Omethidae, Telegeusinae), pp. 1-13 in European Journal of Taxonomy 580 on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.580, http://zenodo.org/record/3660177

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wittmer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Telegeusidae
Genus
Pseudotelegeusis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudotelegeusis Wittmer, 1976 sec. Roza, Constantin & Mermudes, 2019

References

  • Wittmer W. 1976 a. Arbeitenzueiner Revision der Familie Phengodidae (Coleoptera). Entomologische Arbeitenausdem Museum Frey 27: 415 - 524.
  • Zaragoza-Caballero S. 2008. Nueva especie de Pseudotelegeusis (Coleoptera: Telegeusidae) del estado de Colima, Mexico. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 79 (2): 369 - 372.