Borneosabahia Franz is a junior synonym of Elacatophora Schaufuss (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae, Cyrtoscydmini, Cephenniini)
Author
Jaloszyński, Pawel
text
Zootaxa
2008
1896
58
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274526
55fa3002-2784-4a8d-9c06-2f9aaec6d661
1175-5326
274526
Genus
Elacatophora
Schaufuss, 1884
Elacatophora
Schaufuss, 1884
: 403
;
Csiki, 1919
: 3
;
Newton & Franz, 1998
: 143
(
type
species:
Elacatophora robusta
Schaufuss, 1884
: 404
, by monotypy).
Borneosabahia
Franz, 1992
: 893
(
type
species:
Borneosabahia mirifica
Franz, 1992
, by original designation),
syn. n.
Morphology of this genus was thoroughly described and discussed by
Jałoszyński (2004)
(as
Borneosabahia
). Diagnostic characters given in that paper fully agree with those of the
type
species of
Elacatophora
: the head with very large antennal cavities narrowly separated in the middle; antennae strongly thickened toward apices; antennomere XI remarkably enlarged; maxillary palpomere 4 very small, long and slender; the occipital constriction very narrow; the pronotum subconical, broadest near base, with a pair of lateral ante-basal impressions and ante-basal transverse groove; the elytra much broader than the base of the pronotum, each elytron with single, large basal asetose fovea; the procoxae and metacoxae contiguous, the mesocoxae narrowly separated by narrow and very high (i.e. strongly projecting ventrally) mesoventral keel; the protrochanters with a row of sparse, long and thick bristles along the ventral margin. Moreover, all known species of
Borneosabahia
are extremely similar one to another, externally differing only in tiny but reliable details. The
type
species of
Elacatophora
is hardly distinguishable from females of
B. maxima
(
Jałoszyński, 2005
)
; differences are discussed below.