Hypotelus, Erichson, 1839

Caron, Edilson, Mcclarin, Jim, Buss, Bruna Caroline & Foti, Leonardo, 2025, Combining molecular and morphological data to test the monophyly of Hypotelus Erichson and description of new species from Ecuador (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae), Zootaxa 5631 (3), pp. 548-560 : 557

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C952CBBF-D105-448B-9EB1-B6F6DC594BF5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15396622

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A31B51-DD1C-FF83-FF1B-FF5D4ECFFDC8

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Hypotelus
status

 

Modified key to the species of Hypotelus View in CoL

Couplet 11 of the key by Bortoluzzi et al. (2017) can be replaced by the following two couplets to include H. chusqueaticus . Couplets 1–10 are identical to those in Bortoluzzi et al. (2017).

11. Head darker than pronotum; male and female sternite 8 with posterior margin rounded............................................................................................... H. praecox (fig. 10 in Bortoluzzi et al. 2017)

- Head and pronotum similar in color; male and female sternite 8 different from above............................... 12

12. Elytra bicolored, basal two-thirds lighter than the rest; male sternite 8 with posterior margin somewhat three-pronged at the middle (fig. 53 in Bortoluzzi et al. 2017); female sternite 8 with posterior margin sinuous (fig. 78 in Bortoluzzi et al. 2017.................................................................. H. testaceus (fig. 12 in Bortoluzzi et al. 2017)

- Elytra unicolored; male sternite 8 with posterior margin somewhat pointed ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 14–20 ); female sternite 8 with posterior margin pointed at the middle-third ( Fig. 17................................................... H View FIGURES 14–20 . chusqueaticus sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Piestinae

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