Maelodrus sp. 1

Vahtera, Varpu, Muona, Jyrki, Linna, Ari & Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari E., 2015, Nine genera of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera) new to Peru, with a key to Peruvian genera, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4493-4493 : 4493

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4493

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Maelodrus sp. 1
status

 

Maelodrus sp. 1

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; Taxon: higherClassification: Coleoptera; Eucnemidae; Macraulacinae; Macraulacini; genus: Maelodrus Fleutiaux, 1928; Location: continent: South America; country: Peru; county: Loreto; municipality: Iquitos; locality: National Reserve of Allpahuayo Mishana (NRAM)

Notes

One individual caught in a white-sand site (Suppl. material 2). This genus was formerly known from the Western Pacific and Australian regions. The undescribed species found in our study exhibits all the diagnostic features of the genus: the antennae are slightly flattened, basally with faintly keeled antennomeres, the abdominal tip is deeply excavated, the lateral antennal grooves are somewhat removed from the lateral border of hypomera and become fainter caudad, and the dorsal vestiture is unevenly distributed, forming faint patterns.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Eucnemidae

Genus

Maelodrus