Paratillus GORHAM , 1876

Opitz, Weston, G, Paratillus & B, Tarsostenodes, 2016, Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IV. Taxonomy of the Tarsostenodes complex of Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (1), pp. 587-636 : 599

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scientific name

Paratillus GORHAM , 1876
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Paratillus GORHAM, 1876 View in CoL , new status

Paratillus GORHAM, 1876: 62 View in CoL . Type species: Clerus carus NEWMAN. By original designation. There is ample historical literature cited in CORPORAAL, 1950: 299. More recently, the genus was mentioned by MATTHEWS, 1992: 5, GERSTMEIER 1998: 197, and KOLIBÁČ, 2003: 50. KOLIBÁČ (2003) synonymized Paratillus View in CoL under Tarsostenus View in CoL , but during this study it became apparent that the reduction of the eyes, characteristic of the two Paratillus species , represents an outstanding apotypy in the Tarsostenodes complex. GORHAM (1878) also emphasized this eye characteristic by leading his generic description of Paratillus View in CoL with, "Head with eyes little prominent". I surmised that this eye-form discontinuity between Paratillus View in CoL and Tarsostenus View in CoL is sufficiently strong to warrant the generic resurrection of Paratillus View in CoL .

D i a g n o s i s: Within the Tarsostenodes complex only specimens of Paratillus View in CoL have the eyes reduced and the mandibles extraordinarily large.

A p o t y p i e s: Eyes reduced.

D e s c r i p t i o n: This genus is described by GORHAM, 1878: 157. To this description I add: Size: Length 3.0-9.0 mm, width 0.6-1.8 mm; mandible large; maxillary terminal palpomeres subsecuriform or strongly securiform; frons much wider than eye width, eyes reduced, narrow; pronotal disc with glabrous elevations; elytral asetiferous punctations restricted to anterior half of elytral disc, with 1° and 2° setae, 2° setae restricted to regions near epipleural margin and elytral apex; tarsus comprised of 5 tarsomeres, 4 th tarsomere minute, ungues without denticle; abdomen extended beyond elytral apex or not; aedeagus short, tegmen slightly sclerotized, phallobasic lobed short, fimbriate, phallobasic struts confluent with phallobasic apodeme, phallobasic rod present; spicular apodemes fused at distil limit or not fused.

D i s t r i b u t i o n:Cosmopolitan.

S p e c i e s E x a m i n e d Paratillus atali OPITZ , new species, P. carus (NEWMAN)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Loc

Paratillus GORHAM , 1876

Opitz, Weston, G, Paratillus & B, Tarsostenodes 2016
2016
Loc

Paratillus

KOLIBAC J 2003: 50
GERSTMEIER R 1998: 197
MATTHEWS E 1992: 5
CORPORAAL J 1950: 299
GORHAM H 1876: 62
1876
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