New Taxa of Phrenapatinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Southern Africa, with New Distributional Data and a Checklist of the Afrotropical Fauna

Taxonomy of the Archaeoglenes Biroi Species-Group (Tenebrionidae: Phrenapatinae: Archaeoglenini) with a Description of the New Species from the Moluccas

“…Despite the rapidly growing number of taxonomic contributions (Iwan et al . 2015, Schawaller and Bouchard 2019, Iwan and Raś 2020, Iwan and Rincon 2022), Archaeoglenini Watt, 1974 remains one of the most enigmatic lineages within Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802. The majority of already described species are known from relatively small type series or single specimens, which together with their small body size largely inhibits DNA-based phylogenetic investigations of this tribe.…”

“…The five following geographical centers of distribution can be recognized for Archaeoglenini (Iwan et al . 2015, Schawaller and Bouchard 2019, Iwan and Raś 2020, Iwan and Rincon 2022): (1) Central America, (2) Hawaii, (3) Southeast Pacific Islands of Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, (4) Japan, (5) the coast of Southeast Africa, Mauritius and Reunion. Due to the lack of phylogenetic data for the tribe, it is currently challenging to evaluate if the distribution within these areas is a result of single adaptive radiation or if they were independent colonization events by different lineages of Archaeoglenini.…”

“…The rapidly growing number of Archaeoglenes species that have been described in recent years (Iwan et al . 2015, Schawaller and Bouchard 2019, Iwan and Raś 2020, Iwan and Rincon 2022), imposes a need for developing some sort of subgeneric classification. At this point, no formal or informal divisions of this genus exist.…”

Taxonomic revision of the genus Machleida Fåhraeus, 1870 (Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae, Asidini)

“…Darkling beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) are a morphologically diverse group of over 20,000 described species (Ślipiński et al 2011), with many still being discovered every year (e.g., Aloquio et al 2019; Ando 2019; Giraldo-Mendoza and Flores 2019; Merkl 2019; Masumoto et al 2019; Nabozhenko and Purchart 2019; Schawaller and Bouchard 2019; Silvestro 2019; Smith and Rincon 2019; Soldati et al 2019; Zúñiga-Reinoso et al 2019). This publication focuses on the representatives of the subfamily Pimeliinae Latreille, 1802, specifically on Machleida Fåhraeus, 1870, which is one of the seven southern African genera representing Asidini Fleming, 1821 (Koch 1962).…”