Two New Species of<i>Pterydrias</i>Reitter (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae), Significantly Expanding the Biogeographic Range of the Genus

Falin, Zachary H.; Engel, Michael S.

doi:10.1649/0010-065x-70.2.203

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“…[Modified from Batelka & Hájek (2010) including two species from Falin & Engel (2016). The key provided by Falin & Engel (2016) is not reused here because it was too simplified, albeit it correctly stated 'elytra about 4× length of pronotum' for Pterydrias pondolandensis Falin et Engel, 2016 Hong ( 2002) described †Asiamordella furvis (Fig. 2A) based on a specimen embedded in Early Eocene Fushun amber (China).…”

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“…The two genera were finally synonymised based on the study of the types by Batelka & Hájek (2010). Subsequently Falin & Engel (2016) described two Pterydrias species from South Africa and Vietnam, raising the number of species of the genus to seven and considerably enhancing information about the biogeography of this peculiar lineage. So far, only males are known with only little information about their nocturnal activity (Bodenheimer 1932), while other stages and the biology (i.e., female, primary larvae and host group) are still unknown.…”

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The Earliest Representative of Eorhipidiini (Tenebrionoidea: Ripiphoridae: Ripidiinae) Discovered in Cretaceous Amber

Batelka

Prokop

2023

Annales Zoologici

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A new genus and species of wedge-shaped beetle of Eorhipidiini (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae: Ripidiinae) is described from Cretaceous amber of Myanmar ('Burmese amber'). It represents the only known fossil of this tribe. The species is remarkable for the combination of derived characters shared with the extant genus Pterydrias Reitter, 1895 (i.e., absence of tibial spurs, simplified antennae, and prolonged 4-segmented maxillary palpi) with recurved mandibles similar to those in the ancestral lineages Pelecotominae and Ptilophorinae. To accommodate this peculiar specimen a new genus and species Eodrias mandibularis gen. et sp. nov. are established. A key for all known species of the tribe, for which so far only males are known, is provided. In addition, the systematic position of fossil beetle Asiamordella furvis Hong, 2002 from Early Eocene Fushun amber (China), assigned originally to the family Mordellidae, is evaluated. Its placement within Mordellidae is refuted. Based on the set of characters given in the description it is suggested that the specimen may represent an unknown female morphotype of Ripidiinae and the tribe Eorhipidiini is a possible candidate. Discussion of the systematic position of the newly described genus is supported by a phylogenetic analysis including for the first time morphological characters of extant and fossil genera and larvae of all subfamilies of Ripiphoridae.

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