Magellanoconnus, Jałoszyński & Newton, 2017

Jałoszyński, Paweł & Newton, Alfred F., 2017, Taxonomy of ' Euconnus complex'. Part XV. Disentangling the Euconnus - Sciacharis knot (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 4344 (3), pp. 401-443 : 411

Magellanoconnus ( Anthicimimus Franz , status rev.)

Anthicimimus Franz, 1993a: 100 (as subgenus of Sciacharis ). Type specIes: Euconnus anthiciformis Franz, 1967a (des. orIg.). Elevated to genus rank by JałoszyńskI (2015d); here reduced to subgenus of Magellanoconnus .

Remarks. Morphological characters of Anthicimimus were illustrated and described by Jałoszyński (2015d, 2017e). Open procoxal cavities were used as a primary character to distinguish Anthicimimus ( Fig. 6 ) from Sciacharis ( Figs 3–4 ) and similar genera (including Euconnus ). As demonstrated here, the type species of Magellanoconnus ( Fig. 5 ) has open procoxal cavities and it differs from the two species currently included in Anthicimimus only in minor characters of the pronotal and elytral base. These structures are insufficient to treat these taxa as belonging to separate genera, and therefore Anthicimimus is placed in Magellanoconnus as a subgenus. Magellanoconnus s. str. and Anthicimimus can be distinguished on the basis of the following diagnostic characters:

1 Two basal elytral foveae; pronotum with four antebasal pits and median carina; elytron lacking humeral carina.................................................................................... .. subgenus Magellanoconnus s. str.

- One basal elytral fovea; pronotum with two barely discernible antebasal pits or transverse groove, lacking median carina; elytron with humeral carina......................................................... .. subgenus Anthicimimus

Composition and distribution. Magellanoconnus (Anthicimimus) currently includes 2 species known to occur in Chile.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. RepresentatIves of all genus-group names prevIously or currently Included In Sciacharis; dorsal habItus. Euconnus (Austroconophron) tindoui Franz, comb. rest. (type specIes of Austroconophron) (1); Sciacharis (s. str.) lanosa (Broun) (type specIes of Allomaoria) (2); Sciacharis (s. str.) fulva Broun (type specIes of Sciacharis) (3); Sciacharis (Maorinus) alacer (Broun) (type specIes of Maorinus) (4); Magellanoconnus (s. str.) laurisilvae (Franz), comb. rest. (type specIes of Magellanoconnus) (5); Magellanoconnus (Anthicimimus) anthiciformis (Franz), comb. n. (type specIes of Anthicimimus) (6); Neuraphoconnus caledonicus Franz, comb. rest. (type specIes of Neuraphoconnus) (7); Microscydmus (Valdivioconnus) stenichniformis (Franz), comb. n. (type specIes of Valdivioconnus) (8); and Kangarooconnus carinifrons (Franz), comb. n. (type specIes of Kangarooconnus) (9).