Taxonomy of ' Euconnus complex'. Part XV. Disentangling the Euconnus - Sciacharis knot (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
Author
Newton, Alfred F.
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-08
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.1
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Magellanoconnus
(
Anthicimimus
Franz
, status rev.)
Anthicimimus
Franz, 1993a
: 100
(as subgenus of
Sciacharis
). Type specIes:
Euconnus anthiciformis
Franz, 1967a
(des. orIg.). Elevated to genus rank by JałoszyńskI (2015d);
here reduced to subgenus of
Magellanoconnus
.
Remarks.
Morphological characters of
Anthicimimus
were illustrated and described by Jałoszyński (2015d, 2017e). Open procoxal cavities were used as a primary character to distinguish
Anthicimimus
(
Fig. 6
) from
Sciacharis
(
Figs 3–4
) and similar genera (including
Euconnus
). As demonstrated here, the
type
species of
Magellanoconnus
(
Fig. 5
) has open procoxal cavities and it differs from the two species currently included in
Anthicimimus
only in minor characters of the pronotal and elytral base. These structures are insufficient to treat these taxa as belonging to separate genera, and therefore
Anthicimimus
is placed in
Magellanoconnus
as a subgenus.
Magellanoconnus
s. str.
and
Anthicimimus
can be distinguished on the basis of the following diagnostic characters:
1 Two basal elytral foveae; pronotum with four antebasal pits and median carina; elytron lacking humeral carina.................................................................................... ..
subgenus
Magellanoconnus
s. str.
- One basal elytral fovea; pronotum with two barely discernible antebasal pits or transverse groove, lacking median carina; elytron with humeral carina......................................................... ..
subgenus
Anthicimimus
Composition and distribution.
Magellanoconnus
(
Anthicimimus
)
currently includes 2 species known to occur in Chile.