Taxonomy of the tribe Paromalini Reitter (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Dendrophilinae) from China
Author
Zhang, Ye-Jun
Author
Zhou, Hong-Zhang
text
Zootaxa
2007
1544
1
40
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.177968
6d3a5f76-b06d-406e-95eb-3dcef303f548
1175-5326
177968
Genus
Carcinops
Marseul, 1855
Marseul, 1855
: 83;
Schmidt, 1885
: 283;
Reitter, 1909
: 287;
Bickhardt, 1910
: 59; 1916: 108, 112; 1921: 149;
Jakobson, 1911
: 640, 647;
Arnett, 1963
: 375, 380;
Witzgall, 1971
: 177;
Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt, 1976
: 263 (in Dendrophilini);
Vienna, 1980
: 220;
Mazur, 1984
: 127 (catalogue); 1997: 175 (catalogue); 2001: 34;
Yélamos & Ferrer, 1988
: 180;
Ôhara, 1994
: 167; 1999: 115;
Ôhara & Paik, 1998
: 27;
Yélamos, 2002
: 195 (character, key), 379;
Löbl & Smetana, 2004
: 74 (catalogue).
Type
species:
Dendrophilus quatuordecimstriatus
Stephens, 1835
: 412
. Designated by
Bickhardt, 1917
: 113.
Synonymy:
Carcinus
Marseul, 1855
, t. 8 (nec
Latreille, 1796
: 197, emend).
Remarks.
About 50 species of the genus
Carcinops
have been described worldwide (
Mazur 1997
). The majority of them are known from the New World, though some occur in the Oriental, Ethiopian and Australian regions. The beetles are found in decaying remains of animals and plants; some live in bird and rodent nests (
Mazur 2001
). The genus
Carcinops
is subdivided into two subgenera and only the subgenus
Carcinops
s.str.
(with two species) has been found in
China
(
Lewis 1909
,
1915
). Here, an additional new species is described from Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, southwestern
China
.