A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae)

Michael S Engel; Zachary H Falin; Jan Batelka

doi:10.3897/zookeys.857.34938

A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae)

Zookeys. 2019 Jun 25:857:59-84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.857.34938. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Michael S Engel^{1

2

3}, Zachary H Falin¹, Jan Batelka⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4415, USA.
² Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
³ Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10025-5192, USA.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic.

Abstract

Taxonomic notes are provided on species of the uncommonly encountered ripiphorid subfamily Pelecotominae. Zapotecotomasumichrasti gen. et sp. nov., is described from southern Mexico based on a unique male likely collected in the later part of the mid-19^th Century. The discovery of additional species of the South African genus Clinops Gerstaecker permit a revised diagnosis and distinction of the group from the eastern Mediterranean genus Scotoscopus Brenske and Reitter, resurrected status. Two new species of Clinops are established: Clinopsinexpectatus sp. nov. (northeast of Durban near Swaziland) and C.perpessus sp. nov. (region of Durban), and Scotoscopusspectabilis (Schaufuss) is newly recorded for the Peloponnese in Greece.

Keywords: Tenebrionoidea; Greece; Mexico; South Africa; distribution; taxonomy.