Paraleochara Cameron , 1920
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4101.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056050 |
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Genus Paraleochara Cameron, 1920 View in CoL
( Figs 9 View FIGURES 1 – 9 , 18 View FIGURES 10 – 18 , 27 View FIGURES 19 – 27 , 36 View FIGURES 28 – 36 , 44 View FIGURES 37 – 44 , 100–106 View FIGURES 100 – 106 , 119 View FIGURES 107 – 119 , 128 View FIGURES 127 – 128 )
Paraleochara Cameron, 1920: 275 View in CoL (original description); Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 798 (catalogue of world species of Aleocharinae View in CoL ); Cameron, 1939: 623 (in key to British Indian genera of tribe Aleocharini View in CoL ), 662 (redescription), plate III (habitus figured).
Type species: Paraleochara fungivora Cameron, 1920: 276 (= Aleochara translata Walker, 1859 ), by original designation and monotypy.
Non-type material of the type species. P. fungivora : 1 unsexed, “ MALAY PENIN: / PAHANG, F.M.S. / Fraser’s Hill / HOUD’ / 19- 5- 1932 [HW: ‘Fraser’s Hill’, ‘HOUD’, ‘19- 5-’, only ‘[193] 2’.] // H. M. Pendlebury / F. M. S. / Museums. [ US] // Paraleochara / fungivora / Cam. [HW] // Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus / (ex M. Cameron Colln. / by exchange with / Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.)” ( FMNH).
Diagnosis. Paraleochara can be distinguished and characterized from the other genera within the tribe Aleocharini as follows: body medium sized, pubescent, and strongly glossy; ligula elongate, somewhat acute apically; carina on each side of ventral side of head absent; each elytron with posterolateral corners not sinuate; legs long and slender, with 5-5-5 tarsal formula; intercoxal process of mesoventrite very short and wide, with broadly truncate posterior margin; intercoxal process of metaventrite exceptionally long, much longer than that of mesoventrite; female spermatheca with large spherical head, fused with its neck.
See Cameron (1920, 1939) and Park & Ahn (2010a) for further taxonomic information and references. Mouthpart characters of P. fungivora (as Paraleochara translata ), the type species of the genus, have been described in detail ( Sawada, 1982).
Comments. This genus includes only the type species from the Oriental region [ Sri Lanka, Singapore, Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea ( Pace, 2014); the Malay Peninsula (present study)] but we found another species from East Asia, discussed below. Paraleochara belongs to the Tetrasticta generic group, which consists of eight genera (see Maruyama, 2004b; Maruyama et al., 2011).
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Paraleochara Cameron , 1920
Yamamoto, Shûhei & Maruyama, Munetoshi 2016 |
Paraleochara
Cameron 1939: 623 |
Bernhauer 1926: 798 |
Cameron 1920: 275 |