Revision of the Afrotropical Mylabrine Genus Lydoceras Marseul, 1870 (Coleoptera: Meloidae)

M.A. Bologna; M. Pitzalis; V. Viglioglia

doi:10.4001/003.019.0103

We can help you reset your password using the email address linked to your BioOne Complete account.

Registered users receive a variety of benefits including the ability to customize email alerts, create favorite journals list, and save searches. Please note that a BioOne web account does not automatically grant access to full-text content. An institutional or society member subscription is required to view non-Open Access content. Contact helpdesk@bioone.org with any questions.

All Fields are Required

First Name

Last/Family Name

Password

Password Requirements: Minimum 8 characters, must include as least one uppercase, one lowercase letter, and one number or permitted symbol Valid Symbols for password:
~ Tilde
! Exclamation Mark
@ At sign
$ Dollar sign
^ Caret
( Opening Parenthesis
) Closing Parenthesis
_ Underscore
. Period

Confirm Password

Web Account created successfully

M.A. Bolognahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2498-8917,^* M. Pitzalis,¹ V. Viglioglia¹

¹ Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università Roma Tre, Viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy

^*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bologna@uniroma3.it

Abstract

The blister beetle genus Lydoceras Marseul, 1870, tribe Mylabrini, is revised. Its four species are redescribed and figured. Faunistic and ecological records of each species also are summarized. Results of a morphology-based cladistic analysis show Lydoceras lictor (Gerstäcker, 1885) and L. fasciatus (Fabricius, 1775) as most closely related. These two species and L. flavosellatus (Fairmaire, 1887) are placed in the nominate subgenus. The group occurs in eastern Africa and western Arabian Peninsula. The highly distinctive L. stanleyanus (Duvivier, 1890), endemic to central Africa, is placed in the resurrected subgenus Denierus Pic.

Citation Download Citation

M.A. Bologna, M. Pitzalis, and V. Viglioglia "Revision of the Afrotropical Mylabrine Genus Lydoceras Marseul, 1870 (Coleoptera: Meloidae)," African Entomology 19(1), 70-87, (1 March 2011). https://doi.org/10.4001/003.019.0103

Accepted: 22 December 2010; Published: 1 March 2011