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A Revision of the Eleodes (Subgenus Caverneleodes) with New Species and Notes on Cave Breeding Eleodes (Tenebrionidae: Amphidorini)

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A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2012, 62(2): 199-216 A REVISION OF THE ELEODES (SUBGENUS CAVERNELEODES) WITH NEW SPECIES AND NOTES ON CAVE BREEDING ELEODES (TENEBRIONIDAE: AMPHIDORINI) ROLF L. AALBU1, AARON D. SMITH2 and CHARLES A. TRIPLEHORN3 1Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 94118 2International Institute for Species Exploration, PO Box 876505, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 3Department of Entomology, Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— Subgenus Caverneleodes of the genus Eleodes is diagnosed and revised. Six new species from the United States: California (E. microps); Utah and Northern Arizona (E. wynnei), Central Arizona (E. wheeleri), Southern New Mexico (E. guadalupensis), and Mexico (E. thomasi and E. grutus) are described. The biogeography of the subgenus is discussed. Diagnoses and a key are provided to known species of Caverneleodes. Relationships with other Eleodes are discussed. Cave associated Amphidorini are surveyed. ± Key words.— Tenebrionidae, Amphidorini, Eleodes, Caverneleodes, Cave, Mexico, Utah, California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, new species. INTRODUCTION horn & Reddell, 1991). Finally, a sixth species (E. red- delli) was described again from Mexico (Triplehorn, In 1975, one of us (Triplehorn) described three 2007). These new species necessitated a modification species of Eleodes from caves in Texas and Arizona of one of the subgeneric characters above, E. sprousi that were similar in having unique morphological mod- having the plantar groove interrupted by protarsal ifications associated with cave life. A new subgenus, setal tufts. Since new species have since been collected Caverneleodes, was proposed based on the following belonging to this subgenus from Mexico, New Mexico, characters: “form elongate, slender, flattened dorsally; Arizona, Utah, and California a revision of the group is eyes reduced; antennae extremely long (terminal 4 to 5 prompted. segments extending beyond pronotal base) and slen- der; lateral lobes of the mentum fully exposed; legs long and slender, profemora mutic in both sexes; protibial MATERIALS AND METHODS spurs similar in the sexes, protarsus with plantar groove not interrupted (by setal tufts or spines)” also Measurements were taken using digital calipers or mentioned was the close relationship to the subgenus an optical micrometer attached to a Leica MZ16 APO Metablapylis based on female genitalic characters. stereomicroscope. Images of specimens or characters Two additional species belonging to this subgenus were taken using a BK Plus Imaging system (R. Lari- were proposed in 1991 from caves in Mexico (Triple- mer, www.visionarydigital.com). Montaged images PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345412X652729 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2012, 62(2): 217-219 MARIEPSKOPIA ALBOMACULATA GEN. ET SP. NOV. (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE: CNODALONINI) FROM RELICT ARBOREAL HABITATS IN SOUTH AFRICA WOLFGANG SCHAWALLER* Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— Mariepskopia albomaculata gen. et sp. nov. from South Africa is described. The genus is placed into the tenebrionid tribe Cnodalonini and has no closer relative in Africa, but probably in the Oriental Region with the genus Asbolodes. The species has a small distribution area in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal and has probably an arboreal mode of life in the montane forest in 1300–1600 m altitude. ± Key words.— Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Cnodalonini, Mariepskopia gen. nov., new genus, new species, arboreal habitat, relicts, South Africa. INTRODUCTION its floral diversity with over 2.000 plant species, greater than the whole Kruger Park and far exceeding Table The tenebrionid tribe Cnodalonini Gistel, 1856 (sub- Mountain’s plant diversity. Mariepskopia gen. nov. family Stenochiinae Kirby, 1837) is most speciose in albomaculata sp. nov. is probably an arboreal species the Asian tropics, but quite poor in continental Africa of the montane forest in 1300–1600 m altitude (and not (Gebien 1921). Only Madagascar lodges a relatively of the fynbos grass/shrubland around the top in 1.945 numerous fauna (see check-list in Schawaller 2010). m altitude). The other two paratypes came from low- Since a longer time I had a couple of tenebrionid spec- land forests in KwaZulu-Natal. Probably, Mariep- imens from South Africa at hands, which could be not skopia gen. nov. has an arboreal mode of life on or assigned to any known genus. After a detailed study, under barks of older trees in relict forests, and dispers- I decided to place them in the monotypic new genus es by noctural flights (collected at light). See also Mariepskopia n.gen, decribed herein with M. albo- Schawaller (2012) for the Helopini genus Afro-helops maculata sp. nov. Although only males are available with two wingless species in Kenya and Mozambique. and thus the female genital tract remains unknown, this genus can be placed only in the tribe Cnodalonini. Inspite of intensive collections only 5 males of this MATERIAL taxon are known so far. So, either this species is quite rare or has only a small distributional pattern in South Acronyms of depositories: Africa. The holotype and 2 of the paratypes where col- CRFL – Collection René Fouqué, Liberec, Czech Re- lected during night at light in the forest of Mariepskop public; Mountain in Mpumalanga. This mountain is unique in SMNS –Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stutt- gart, Germany; TMSA – Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, * Contributions to Tenebrionidae, no. 98. For no. 97 see: Zootaxa, 2012. Pretoria, South Africa. PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345412X652738 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2012, 62(2): 221-225 A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS PROBATICUS SEIDLITZ, 1896 FROM GREECE (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) FABIEN SOLDATI O.N.F., Pôle National d’Entomologie Forestière, 2 rue Charles Péguy, 11500 Quillan, France; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] Abstract.— A new species of the genus Probaticus Seidlitz, 1896, P. (Pelorinus) peslieri sp. nov., is described from some localities of the island of Lesvos, Eastern Aegean Greece. It is compared to all its Greek relatives. Key words.— Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Helopini, Probaticus (Pelorinus) peslieri, new species, Greece, Island of Lesvos. INTRODUCTION Among an important Tenebrionidae material from Greece mainland and some islands (1,536 specimens), Probaticus Seidlitz, 1896 is a widely distributed collected by Serge Peslier during about ten entomolo- genus within the Palaearctic region, from Morocco to gical trips, a very peculiar and new Probaticus species Turkmenistan, with about 63 species into 5 subgenera has been discovered. It comes from some localities of (Nabozhenko and Löbl 2008). Most of species occur in the island of Lesvos where none Probaticus had been the Mediterranean Basin. Viñolas (1997) and Viñolas recorded for (Kühnelt, 1965). and Cartagena (2005) have suggested a new taxonom- ic organization within the genus upgrading to genera MATERIAL AND METHODS Pelorinus Vauloger, 1900, Helopotrichus Reitter, 1922 and Helopidoxus Reitter, 1922 and transferring the The studied material comes from S. Peslier (Perpig- subgenus Helopostygnus Antoine, 1949 from Proba- nan, France) collection. ticus Seidlitz, 1896 to Pelorinus Vauloger, 1900. These Specimens have been cleaned before identification, important nomenclatural changes, based on two very to correctly study cuticle and punctation of pronotum short studies both only totalizing 3 pages and not on and elytra. They have been sodden for 24 hours in a real morphological or phylogenetic study, have not a solution of 5% detergent and 95 % water and cleaned been followed by Nabozhenko and Löbl (2008) and Fer- with a supple paint-brush. rer (2008). Male genitaliae (aedeagus) have been extracted According to the former authors, eleven species of from the last abdominal segment, cleaned with a solu- Probaticus have been recorded from Greece and their tion of detergent and water (see above) and glued on islands. The most complete work to identify these spe- a small white card, ventral side visible. Because of its cies is still the one of Reitter (1922). The last described utility in Probaticus taxonomy, the endophallus has species, Probaticus (Helopotrichus) kalavriticus been separated from the parameres for its correct Schawaller (2001), occurring in the Peloponnese, has examination. been transferred from the genus Probaticus within the Photographs have been obtained using a Sony® subtribe Helopina to the new genus Stygohelops Leo DSC-W7 digital camera mounted on a Wild® M5A and Liberto (2003) within the subtribe Cylindrinotina. stereomicroscope and multiple images at different PL ISSN 0003-4541 © Fundacja Natura optima dux doi: 10.3161/000345412X652747 A N N A L E S Z O O L O G I C I (Warszawa), 2012, 62(2): 227-243 CATALOGUE, GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELS OF THE MELANOCRATOID PLATYNOTINA (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE: PEDININI) MARCIN JAN KAMIŃSKI1, 2 and MARCIN RAŚ1 1Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland 2Corresponding author: e-mail: [email protected] Abstract.— The catalogue of all known species of the melanocratoid
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