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Issue: Vol. 5209 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.2.9
Page range: 293-300
Abstract views: 521
PDF downloaded: 220

Review of the genera Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 and Durandius Kaszab, 1970 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with description of R. hosoishii sp. nov. from an ant nest in Cambodia

The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6–10–1, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3–5–7, Matsuyama, 790–8566 Japan.
Coleoptera Cnemeplatiini Indochina Laos myrmecophily Pimeliinae taxonomy Thailand

Abstract

The enigmatic tenebrionid genera Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 and Durandius Kaszab, 1970 are briefly reviewed and diagnosed. Rondoniella hosoishii sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from a nest of the arboreal ant Crematogaster sewardi in Cambodia. Because of where R. hosoishii sp. nov. was collected and its specialized morphology, the members of Rondoniella and its close relative Durandius are considered to be myrmecophilous, as was suggested in the original description. They also have reduced mouthparts, which are unknown in other tenebrionids, and they might receive food from ants by trophallaxis.

 

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