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Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Enopliinae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2014

Weston Opitz
Weston Opitz*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Kansas Wesleyan University, 100 East Claflin Avenue, Salina, Kansas 67401-6196United States of America
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1Corresponding author (e-mail: opitz@kwu.edu)
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Abstract

The genus Pelonides Kuwert (Coleoptera: Cleridae) is revised to include six species as follows: P. floripennis Opitz, new species, P. granulatipennis (Schaeffer), P. humeralis (Horn), P. quadrinotata (Haldeman), P. quadripunctata (Say), and P. scabripennis (LeConte). Pelonides species are presumed predators of lignicolous and anthophilous prey species. It is hypothesised that the sister group of Pelonides is Parapelonides Barr, and that ancestral Pelonides diversified on ancient terrain known as the Mexican/Mayan block. Lectotypes were designated for P. granulatipennis (Schaeffer) and P. quadripunctata (Say). Pelonides similis Knull is synonymised with P. humeralis (Horn). Fifteen characters were evaluated phylogenetically and analysed with WINCLADA, in combination with NONA, which generated two fully resolved trees. This treatise also includes a key to Pelonides species, a summary of natural history, 24 line drawings, four electron micrographs, 24 habitus illustrations, and three distribution maps.

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Systematics & Morphology
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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 147 , Issue 5 , October 2015 , pp. 501 - 526
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© Entomological Society of Canada 2014 

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