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Issue: Vol. 1732 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1732.1.3
Page range: 45–53
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 3

A featherwing beetle without wings: re-discovery and second species of Rioneta (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Erbertstraße 1, 07743 Jena, Germany Entomology Research Laboratory, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, K.W. Neatby Bldg., 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada
Coleoptera Taxonomy beetle

Abstract

The type species of the monotypic beetle genus Rioneta Johnson, 1975, previously known from three specimens, is rediscovered in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania. A second sympatric species, R. inexpectata sp.n., is described. The relatively rare event of apparently obligate aptery in Ptiliidae is reported. The genus Rioneta, as well as Leptinla Johnson, 1985, are removed from the non-monophyletic Ptiliini and transferred to the tribe Ptinellini.

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