Paulusiellini Kusy, Motyka & Bocak, 2023

Kusy, Dominik, Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2023, Ontogenetic modifications produce similar phenotypes in distantly related click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Insect Systematics and Diversity 7 (4), pp. 1-16 : 8

Tribe Paulusiellini Kusy, Motyka & Bocak , new tribe u r n:l s i d:z o o b a n k.o r g:a c t: 9C 6 8 A2 F0- 4E D8- 4 4F 4-9F 6 8- FCD9C3B3184C

Type Genus

Paulusiella Löbl, 2007 (monotypic).

= Paulusiella Mandl, 1974 (invalid name).

Diagnosis

The erection of the new tribe is based on molecular relationships that rejected the relationships of Paulusiella and Cebrio (the Cebrionini concept sensu Paulus 1982 , Lawrence et al. 2000, Sánchez-Ruiz and Lobl 2007, Platia and Ghahari 2016) and the significant morphological disparity of hemiopine genera and Paulusiella . We recovered Paulusiella as a sister to Hemiops Laporte, 1838 ( Elateridae : Hemiopinae ; Fig. 1 ). The tribe is monogeneric, and the description of P. serraticornis is given above. The morphology is illustrated in Fig. 2 and summarized in Table 3 .

Figures

Fig. 1. The mitogenomic relationships of soft-bodied and/or non-clicking genera Paulusiella, Cebrio, Scaptolenus, Analestesa, Plastocerus, Drilus, and their clicking relatives.The numbers at branches designate ultrafast bootstrap values and posterior probabilities.(A)The maximum likelihood analysis of the mt/nDNA dataset with single partition,non-focal clades are collapsed,Lissominae and Pityobiinae omitted.(B)The maximum likelihood analysis of thirteen protein-coding mitochondrial genes at the nucleotide level with coding masked by the degen software and partitioned by genes. (C)The Bayesian analysis using PhyloBayes at the nucleotide level.The trees with full-length branches and the results of additional analyses are shown in Supplementary Figs.S2–S14. Paulisiella, Cebrio, and Cebriorrhipis (red or grey colored)—the taxa earlier placed in Cebrionini;Plastocerus, Selasia, Drilus, and Malacogaster (magenta or grey colored)—non-clicking elaterids earlier placed in families Drilidae and Plastoceridae.

Fig. 2. Paulusiella sp. from Iran.A—general appearance, dorsal view; B, C—frontal part of the body,dorsally and ventrally; D—antenna; E—head and pronotum in lateral view; F, G—head, ventral and dorsal view; H—mesonotum; I—elytron; J–L—pronotum, dorsally, laterally, posterior view, M prosternal process, and mesosternal pit; N–P male genitalia, ventrally, dorsally, laterally; Q—terminal abdominal segments. Scales 0.5 mm.