Description of Africomus gen. nov., and new records of A. longipygus (Pic, 1917) from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Popis rodu Africomus gen. nov. a nové nálezy A. longipygus (Pic, 1917) z Madagaskaru (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
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Klapalekiana 52(1–2): 47-53, 2016
Zbyněk Kejval & Donald S. Chandler
Publikované v tisku: 26. 8. 2016
Zobrazení: 26
Abstrakt: Africomus gen. nov. from the family Anthicidae is described for fourteen species
(one species with two subspecies) distributed in Madagascar and Africa:
Africomus brunneopygius (Pic, 1914) comb. nov., A. circumflexus (Pic, 1917)
comb. nov., A. cooperi (Pic, 1951) comb. nov., A. decaryi (Pic, 1938) comb.
nov., A. herbarum (Pic, 1932) comb. nov., A. inanis inanis (Fairmaire, 1897)
comb. nov., A. inanis longiterminalis (Pic, 1917) comb. nov., A. jejunus (Pic,
1895) comb. nov., A. longipygus (Pic, 1917) comb. nov. (type species), A.
rhodesianus (Pic, 1901) comb. nov., A. soaresicus (Pic, 1895) comb. nov., A.
subnotatipennis (Pic, 1917) comb. nov., A. villiersi (Pic, 1953) comb. nov. (all
from Anthicus Paykull, 1798), A. claviger (Uhmann, 1990) comb. nov. and A.
pauliani (Bonadona, 1958) comb. nov. (both from Cordicomus Pic, 1894).
A lectotype is designated for Anthicus longipygus Pic, 1917.
Klíčová slova: Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Africomus, taxonomy, new genus, new combination, lectotype designation, Afrotropical region