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Issue: Vol. 4347 No. 3: 14 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.6
Page range: 533–542
Abstract views: 169
PDF downloaded: 5

Review of the genus Trichiotes Casey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Edrotini), with the description of a new species and a preliminary checklist of the Tenebrionidae from Cuatrociénegas, Mexico

Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011–5640, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011–5640, USA.
Coleoptera Darkling beetles taxonomy biodiversity stridulation

Abstract

The rarely collected, previously monotypic, darkling beetle genus Trichiotes is reviewed, including new state and country records for T. seriatus Casey, 1907 and a new species, Trichiotes lightfooti Wirth & Smith, n. sp., is described from the Cuatrociénegas Protected Area in Coahuila, Mexico. Differences in stridulatory structures between the species are discussed and the occurrence of a waxy, extracuticular pruinescence is reported for Trichiotes. A species key to the genus is provided and a checklist of the known Tenebrionidae from the Cuatrociénegas region is presented.

 

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