Erotylidae From New Guinea and Her Adjacent Islands I (Coleoptera)

Abstract

First part of the revision of the family Erotylidae from New Guinea and her adjacent islands treats the subfamily Triplacinae and part of the tribe Dacnini of the subfamily Dacninae. New taxa, combination and synonym treated in this paper are as follows: Aulacochilus (Aulacochilus) praeclarus sp. nov. A. (A.) jlavocinctus rufobasalis subsp. nov. A. (A.) rectistriatus sp. nov. A. (A.) circumcinctus sp. nov. A. (A.) moelzsicus sp. nov. A. (A.) biakensis sp. nov. A. (Olacauchilus) mir@sciatus subgen. et sp. nov. A. (Caulaochilus) subgen. nov. A. (Ulacaochilus) montivagw subgen. et sp. nov. A. (Laucaochilus) gressitti subgen. et sp. nov. A. (L.) brevistriatus sp. nov. A. (L.) angustistriatus sp. nov. A. (L.) tenuistriatus sp. nov. A. (A.) papuanus Csiki = A. astrolabicus Heller, 1918, syn. nov. Tritomophasma (Ttitomorpha) papuanum subgen. et sp. nov. Phoxogenys jucunda (Mader) comb. nov. = Spondotriplax jucunda Mader, 1936. P. solomonensis sp. nov.