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Issue: Vol. 5551 No. 3: 13 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5551.3.5
Page range: 531-555
Abstract views: 132
PDF downloaded: 80

A redefinition of Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae)

Department of Life Sciences; Natural History Museum; SW7 5BD London; United Kingdom.; Institute of Life Sciences and Technology; Daugavpils University; Vienības iela 13; LV-5401 Daugavpils; Latvia.; Institute of Biology; University of Latvia; O. Vācieša iela 4; LV-1004 Rīga; Latvia.
Department of Science; Roma Tre University; Viale G. Marconi 446; 00146; Rome; Italy.; World Biodiversity Association Onlus; c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Lungadige; Porta Vittoria 9;37129 Verona; Italy.
Coleoptera Celebesa checklist Falsogauromaia key synonymy redescriptions taxonomy Sulawesi Wallacea

Abstract

Gauromaia dives Pascoe, 1866, type species of the genus, is redescribed; Celebesa Pic, 1921, hitherto a genus in Cnodalonini Oken, 1843, is downgraded in rank to a subgenus of Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866. The subgeneric rank is confirmed for Gauromaia (Falsogauromaia Pic, 1921). The following new combinations are proposed: G. (Celebesa) elongata (Pic, 1921) comb. nov., G. (C.) impressa (Pic, 1923) comb. nov., G. (C.) latipennis (Pic, 1921) comb. nov., G. (C.) striata (Pic, 1923) comb. nov., and the synonym Celebesa purpurea (Pic, 1921) syn. nov. is introduced for Gauromaia (Celebesa) angustior (Pic, 1921) comb. nov. Lectotype designations are made for five species: Gauromaia dives, Gauromaia (Celebesa) angustior, Gauromaia (Celebesa) purpurea, Gauromaia (Celebesa) elongata, and Gauromaia (Falsogauromaia) annulipes Pic, 1921. An annotated checklist of Gauromaia species, a key to its subgenera, and a key to the species of the subgenus Celebesa are presented for the first time. New faunistic records of Gauromaia (Celebesa) and G. (Falsogauromaia) are provided.

 

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