Cladistic analysis of species of Natalis Laporte (1836) and related genera Eunatalis Schenkling (1909), Metademius Schenkling (1899) and Eurymetomorphon Pic (1950) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) with redescription of a restored Clerinae genus
Author
A, Jaime Solervicens
text
Zootaxa
2007
1398
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175376
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175376
Natalis
Laporte (1836)
Type
species:
Natalis laplacei
Laporte (1836)
Diagnosis
:
According to the current analysis, the genus
Natalis
is composed of only two species,
N. laplacei
from
Chile
and
N. wagneri
from
Argentina
. The synapomorphies that characterize this taxon are the special modification of the male tegmen mentioned above and the dark brown with a yellowish transverse band of elytra.
N. wagneri
is particularly apomorphic because of the shortening of the tegmen (
Fig. 6
), reversal of the weakly sclerotized zones laterally behind the base of the parameres and in the parameral apices (
Figs. 5 and 6
), the bending of the apodeme (
Fig. 6
), the dorsal division of the tegmen, the complex sclerotization of the median lobe of the aedeagus (
Fig. 12
), and the shortening of the bursa copulatrix (
Fig. 15
).
Natalis laplacei
is distinguished by a pronounced frontal pit. Descriptions of these species were made by
Solervicens (1973)
.