Triarthron Märkel, 1840

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2009, Review of the Sogdini of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leiodinae) with descriptions of fourteen new species and three new genera, Zootaxa 2102 (1), pp. 1-74 : 8

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2102.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317188

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scientific name

Triarthron Märkel, 1840
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Genus Triarthron Märkel, 1840 View in CoL

Triarthron Märkel, 1840: 141 View in CoL . Type species: Triarthron maerkelii Märkel, 1840 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Triarthrum Agassiz, 1847: 375 View in CoL (unjustified emendation of Triarthron View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Antennal club large, 3-segmented; mandibles conspicuous, elongate, apices entire; labrum emarginate; clypeus sexually dimorphic, lightly sclerotized and deeply concave in male, in female short, strongly sclerotized basally and lightly sclerotized apically; epistomal suture curved, a raised carina in male; eyes large, protuberant; gular sutures widely separated at base, convergent to base of submentum, with a suture separating gula and submentum; mesoventrite (mesosternum of other authors) weakly oblique, not carinate; mesocoxae narrowly separated by mesoventral process; all tibiae slender; male with several teeth on posterior margin of metafemur.

Distribution and diversity. The genus is known to contain only the Palearctic type species ( Daffner 1983, Newton 1998), and the following Nearctic species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Loc

Triarthron Märkel, 1840

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce 2009
2009
Loc

Triarthrum

Agassiz, L. 1847: 375
1847
Loc

Triarthron Märkel, 1840: 141

Markel, J. C. F. 1840: 141
1840
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