Paracroleptus Ferreira, 2020

Ferreira, Vinicius S., 2020, Revision of Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 and descriptions of New Acroleptina taxa (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calopterini), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 53 (45 - 46), pp. 2739-2756 : 2749

Paracroleptus Ferreira new genus

Type species. Acroleptus costae Ferreira, 2015 , herein designated.

Description. A comprehensive examination of Acroleptus and Aporrhipis types indicated that Acroleptus costae Ferreira, 2015 does not belong to any of these genera nor any already described genus, and Paracroleptus new genus is hereby erected to accommodate this species (See description in Ferreira 2015, p. 298). Paracroleptus can be separated from both genera by the dehiscent elytra (vs. subparallel in Aporrhipis and Acroleptus ), reduced mouthparts (vs. non-reduced mouthparts in Aporrhipis and Acroleptus ) and by the parameres free, not co-opted with median lobe (vs. completely or partially fused parameres, co-opted with median lobe). The genus is provisionally placed in the Acroleptina based on the folds in the basal inner margin of median lobe, shared with Acroleptus , Aporrhipis and Ceratopriomorphus Pic, 1922 .