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Issue: Vol. 4175 No. 6: 19 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.5
Page range: 571–587
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 2

Species groups in the genus Atrocrates Koch, 1956 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini)

Zoological Museum, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland.
Coleoptera taxonomy Platynotina trigonopoid new species Southern Africa

Abstract

The genus Atrocrates Koch, 1956 belongs to the trigonopoid evolutionary lineage of the subtribe Platynotina, which consists of endemic South African genera. In the present paper, a division of Atrocrates based on the structure of mentum, pronotum, male mid tibiae, elytral humeri into the following species groups is proposed: bellamyi (10 species), bisinuatus (5), capensis (3), coconatae (5), evestigator (4), formosus (2), galbasi (2), occultator (2). An illustrated key to all of the above mentioned species groups is included. Moreover, two news species A. galbasi sp. nov. and A. matthewsi sp. nov. from Southern Africa are diagnosed, described and illustrated.

 

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