Notointybia gen. nov., a new genus of the Australian soft‐winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Melyridae)
Zhenhua Liua b c d, Adam Ślipińskia c, Hong Pangb d✉
- aAustralian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
- bKey Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institute, The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences/School of Ecology, Sun Yat‐sen University Guangzhou 510275 China
- cAustralian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, 2601 Australia
- dKey Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institute, The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences/School of Ecology,, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 China
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
Abstract A new Australian genus Notointybia gen. nov. is established for three species formerly placed in Laius Guérin‐Méneville, Dicranolaius Champion or Intybia Pascoe. It can be separated from the other apalochrine genera by the following characters combined: pronotum with complete lateral carinae, basal antennomeres modified and fore tarsi four‐segmented or five‐segmented and without combs on the second segment in male specimens. The new genus includes Laius cavicornis Lea, 1909, Laius filamentarius Lea, 1917 (type species), Laius hackeri Lea, 1914 and a new species Notointybia maculosa sp. nov. from Queensland. We designate lectotypes for L. cavicornis Lea, 1909, L. hackeri Lea, 1914 and L. filamentarius Lea, 1917. The taxonomic position of Notointybia and its phylogenetic relationship with related genera remain unsolved, requiring a comprehensive molecular study of world Apalochrini.
TL;DRA new Australian genus Notointybia gen. nov is established for three species formerly placed in Laius Guérin‐Méneville, Dicranolaius Champion or Intybia Pascoe and its phylogenetic relationship with related genera remain unsolved, requiring a comprehensive molecular study of world Apalochrini. (Semantic Scholar)