Paralorelopsis Marcuzzi, 1994

Aalbu, Rolf L., Kanda, Kojun, Merkl, Otto, Ivie, Michael A. & Johnston, M. Andrew, 2023, Reconstitution of some tribes and genera of Lagriinae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), ZooKeys 1172, pp. 155-202 : 155

Genus Paralorelopsis Marcuzzi, 1994

Paralorelopsis Marcuzzi, 1994: 117. Type species: Paralorelopsis bordoni Marcuzzi, 1994.

Note.

Marcuzzi (1994), in his very limited description based on a single example, described Paralorelopsis as agreeing with Champion’s description of Lorelopsis except for a single difference being the lack of a lamina on the subapical tarsomere. His new species, P. bordoni , is also much larger in size than species of either Lorelopsis or Prateus . In both the tarsi and size, it agrees more with some American genera belonging to Belopini . We were unable to examine specimens of this genus and therefore place it as incertae sedis in Lagriinae for now.