Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821
Author
Soldati, Laurent
Author
Kergoat, Gael J.
INRA - UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier Supagro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F- 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex (France) soldati @ supagro. inra. fr kergoat @ supagro. inra. fr
fr@supagro.inra.fr
Author
Condamine, Fabien L.
Mathématiques appliquées - UMR 7641 (CNRS, École polytechnique), route de Saclay, F- 91128 Palaiseau cedex (France) fabien. condamine @ gmail. com
text
Zoosystema
2012
2012-06-30
34
2
305
317
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2012n2a8
journal article
10.5252/z2012n2a8
1638-9387
5165431
Diphyrrhynchus halorageos
(
Montrouzier, 1860
)
Acanthosternus halorageos
Montrouzier, 1860: 290
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
Vanuatu
.
Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, Surunda beach, seashore,
8.X.2006
, leg. L. Soldati,
10 ♂♂
,
24 ♀♀
(
MNHN
),
2 ♂♂
,
2 ♀♀
(coll.
LS
). — Espiritu Santo Isl., Big Bay, Matantas, Vatthe Area Conservation,
12-17.X.2006
, leg. L. Soldati,
2 ♂♂
,
3 ♀♀
(
MNHN
).
DISTRIBUTION. —
New Caledonia
,
Loyalty Islands
, île des Pins,
Vanuatu
and
Australia
(
Kaszab 1982b
).
REMARKS
As its specific epithet suggests, this little nocturnal darkling beetle lives in the coastal sand and hides during the day at the base of
Haloragis prostrata
J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.