Neopallodes Reitter, 1884

Chen, XiaoXiao & Huang, Min, 2019, One new species and three newly recorded species of Neopallodes Reitter from China (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Nitidulinae), ZooKeys 880, pp. 75-84 : 75

Neopallodes Reitter, 1884

Neopallodes Reitter 1884: 269; Grouvelle 1892: 849, 1902: 17; Kirejtshuk 1987: 152; 1994: 225; 2008: 119; 2011: 287. Type species: Pallodes hilleri Reitter, 1877 (subsequent designation by Kirejtshuk 1994)

Diagnosis.

The genus Neopallodes can be distinguished from other genera of the Cyllodes complex by the following features: distance between metacoxae wider than that between procoxae and mesocoxae; tarsomeres simiple on all legs; male anal sclerite exposed from under truncate pygidial apex. This genus is similar to other cyllodin genera in East Asia, such as Pallodes , Coxollodes Kirejtshuk 1987, and Cyllodes Erichson 1843, but it can be easily distinguished from Pallodes and Coxollodes in having the exposed male anal sclerite from under the transverse pygidial apex, and from Cyllodes in having simple tarsomeres and axillary sclerites absent on the mesoventrite.

Remarks.

Congeners of Neopallodes are mycophagous, and their adults are associated with the sporocarps and thalli of Agaricaceae ( Basidiomycetes). So far, larvae are known to be found on the mycelia of these fungi or in their fruiting bodies ( Hayashi 1978; Kirejtshuk 1994; Leschen 1999; Yamashita and Hiji 2007). Yunnan Province accounts for 90% of the wild mushroom species in China ( Liu 2014), and, the species in this genus so far collected in China are all distributed in Yunnan Province. This suggests that the abundance of fungi may potentially harbor undiscovered species of this genus.