Beetles that live with ants (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pseudomorphini): A remarkable new genus and species from Guyane (French Guiana), Guyanemorpha spectabilis gen. n., sp. n.
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
Hyper-diversity Group, Department of Entomology, MRC- 187, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, P. O. Box 37012, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
erwint@si.edu
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.358.6298
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.358.6298
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Pseudomorphini Newman, 1842
Pseudomorphini
Newman, 1842: 365 (as Pseudomorphites)
Proposed english vernacular name.
False-form beetles.
Taxonomy.
Stable at the generic level.
Classification.
According to
Ober and Maddison (2008)
,
Pseudomorphini
appears as a branch of the higher
Carabidae
and associated with
Graphipterini
and
Orthogonini
; according to
Erwin and Geraci (2008)
, the adelphotaxon is the tribe
Orthogonini
. All three tribes are associated in some way with ants or termites. Male genitalia of pseudomorphines have a bonnet-shaped phallobase as in the lebiomorphs, yet their accompanying parameres are large and nearly symmetrical (and in some species the parameres are sparsely setiferous), as in some primitive lineages of the family. Many known lineages of
Pseudomorphini
have been so highly selected for life with ants (and possibly termites) that external structures do not help much in discovering more normal carabid relatives (cf. Erwin and Amundson, in press).
Taxonomy references.
Baehr (1992
,
1997
); Erwin and Amundson (in press);
Erwin and Geraci (2008)
;
Notman (1925)
,
Ogueta (1967)
.
Larval references.
Erwin (1981)
;
Lenko (1972)
;
Liebherr and Kavanaugh (1985)
,
Moore (1964
,
1974
,
1983
).