Zelenkaesalus Krikken 2008
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Zelenkaesalus Krikken, 2008
Type species. Aesalus timidus Krikken.
Zelenkaesalus Krikken is elevated to generic status and contains the following six species, five of which represent new combinations, and one of which is described herein:
Z. cechovskyi (Huang et al.), n. comb. MALAYSIA: Johor; SINGAPORE
Z. gedeensis (Huang and Wu), n. comb. INDONESIA: Java
Z. javanus (Krikken), n. comb. INDONESIA: Java
Z. pazuzus Paulsen, n. sp. PHILIPPINES: Luzon
Z. sabahensis (Zelenka), n. comb. MALAYSIA: Sabah (Borneo)
Z. timidus (Krikken), n. comb. INDONESIA: Borneo, Sumatra; MALAYSIA: Pahang, Perak; THAILAND
The genus is defined by the presence of well-developed sulci on the abdomen (Fig. 2b) and metaster- num for receiving the entire tibia and tarsus. The canthus is short (Fig. 5) and the eye in dorsal view is almost entirely covered by the pronotum when the head is retracted. The dorsal vestiture includes clumped scales, scattered bristles, and a low covering of minutely branched scales as in Trogellus species (Paulsen 2013). The branched scales generally anchor a waxy exudate, unless abraded.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Genus
- Zelenkaesalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Krikken
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zelenkaesalus Krikken, 2008 sec. Paulsen, 2018
References
- Krikken, J. 2008. Zelenkaesalus subgen. n. for three Southeast Asian species of Echinoaesalus Zelenka, including E. javanus sp. n. (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Aesalinae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 78: 275 - 284.
- Paulsen, M. J. 2013. A new genus for the Neotropical species of Aesalus Fabricius, with descriptions of eight new species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Aesalinae). Insecta Mundi 0325: 1 - 25.