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Exochomoscirtes retusus Ruta & Yoshitomi 2010, comb. nov.

Description

Exochomoscirtes retusus (Champion, 1918) comb. nov.

Scirtes retusus Champion, 1918: 265

Diagnosis. Similar to E. ruforotundus (WATTS), but apices of parameroids are emarginate. See remarks below E. ruforotundus.

Redescription and male genitalia illustrations. Yoshitomi (2008).

Distribution. Seram (= Ceram).

Remarks. Genitalia similar to E. ruforotundus (Watts), with which it may be conspecific, see remarks under E. ruforotundus (Watts).

Notes

Published as part of Ruta, Rafał & Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki, 2010, Revision of the genus Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae: Scirtinae) 2598, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 2598 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2598.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10095059

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Exochomoscirtes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ruta & Yoshitomi
Species
retusus
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Exochomoscirtes retusus (Champion, 1918) sec. Ruta & Yoshitomi, 2010

References

  • Champion, C. G. (1918) New and little-known saltatorial Dascillidae. Entomological Monthly Magazine, 54, 93 - 103, 139 - 149, 188 - 198, 219 - 225, 256 - 273.
  • Yoshitomi, H. (2008) Redescriptions of the type material of eight scirtid species (Insecta, Coleoptera) in the Hope Entomological Collections in Oxford. Japanese Journal of systematic Entomology, 14 (2), 295 - 309.