Prateus LeConte, 1862

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 Prateus LeConte, 1862

Prateus LeConte, 1862: 238. Type species: Prateus fusculus Leconte, 1862.

= Lorelus Sharp, 1876. Type species: Lorelus priscus Sharp, 1876. syn. rest. (original synonymy by Van Dyke 1953: 119).

Note.

The rarely collected Prateus fusculus of North America has not been critically studied since its description. Its placement in Goniaderini has led to the expectation that it has open meoscoxal cavities, but they are clearly closed (Fig. 3 ). This rediscovery was the impetus for this study. Blair (1940) first noted that Prateus and Lorelus "are very closely allied, if indeed really separable." The synonymy was first proposed by Van Dyke (1953), who simultaneously described a second species, P. dentatus VanDyke, 1953, but was missed by Zoological Record, and remained unrecognized by all subsequent workers including recent catalogs ( Bousquet et al. 2018; Bouchard et al. 2021). The synonymy was listed for the genus but no species-level combinations were proposed, which are now made explicitly below.

Species formerly assigned to Lorelus

Prateus angulatus † (Doyen & Poinar, 1994), comb. nov.

Prateus angustulus (Champion, 1913), comb. nov.

Prateus armatus (Montrouzier, 1860) [ Trogosita ], comb. nov.

Prateus biroi (Kaszab, 1956), comb. nov.

Prateus blairi (Kaszab, 1955), comb. nov.

Prateus brevicornis (Champion, 1896), comb. nov.

Prateus breviusculus (Champion, 1913), comb. nov.

Prateus caledonicus (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus carolinensis (Blair, 1940), comb. nov.

Prateus chinensis (Kaszab, 1940), comb. nov.

Prateus clarkei (Kulzer, 1957), comb. nov.

Prateus crassicornis (Broun, 1880), comb. nov.

= Lorelus sternalis Broun, 1910. Synonymy by Watt (1992).

Prateus crassepunctatus (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus cribricollis (Kaszab, 1940), comb. nov.

Prateus curvipes (Champion, 1913), comb. nov.

Prateus dybasi (Kulzer, 1957), comb. nov.

Prateus fijianus (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus fumatus (Lea, 1929) [ Mesotretis ], comb. nov.

Prateus glabriventris (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus greensladei (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus guadeloupensis (Kaszab, 1940), comb. nov.

Prateus hirtus (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus ivoirensis (Ardoin, 1969), comb. nov.

Prateus kanak (Kaszab, 1986), comb. nov.

Prateus kaszabi (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus laticornis (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus latulus (Broun, 1910), comb. nov.

Prateus longicornis (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus mareensis (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus marginalis (Broun, 1910), comb. nov.

Prateus niger (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus norfolkianus (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus obtusus (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus ocularis (Fauvel, 1904), comb. nov.

Prateus opacus (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus palauensis (Kulzer, 1957), comb. nov.

Prateus politus (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus priscus (Sharp, 1876), comb. nov.

Prateus prosternalis (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus pubescens (Broun, 1880), comb. nov.

Prateus pubipennis (Lea, 1929) [ Mesotretis ], comb. nov.

Prateus punctatus (Watt, 1992), comb. nov.

Prateus quadricollis (Broun, 1886), comb. nov.

Prateus queenslandicus (Kaszab, 1986), comb. nov.

Prateus rugifrons (Champion, 1913), comb. nov.

Prateus solomonis (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus tarsalis (Broun, 1910), comb. nov.

= Lorelus nigrescens Broun, 1910. Synonymy by Watt (1992).

Prateus unicornis (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Prateus watti (Kaszab, 1982b), comb. nov.

Figures

Figures 2 - 5. Mesocoxal closure in Lagriinae. 2 Closed state, Prateus fusculus LeConte, 1862 (Prateini) 3 Open state, Phymatestes sp. (Goniaderini) 4 Open state, Capeluprops laenoides Schawaller, 2011 (Laenini) 5 Closed state distorted during preservation, Micropedinus sp. (Prateini). Abbreviation: msv (yellow polygon) = mesoventrite, msa (red polygon) = mesanepisternum, mse (green polygon) = mesepisternum, mtv (blue polygon) = metaventrite.