TY - JOUR
T1 - A new genus and species of myrmecophilous brentid beetle (Coleoptera
T2 - Brentidae) inhabiting the myrmecophytic epiphytes in the Bornean rainforest canopy
AU - Maruyama, Munetoshi
AU - Bartolozzi, Luca
AU - Inui, Yoko
AU - Tanaka, Hiroshi O.
AU - Hyodo, Fujio
AU - Shimizu-Kaya, Usun
AU - Takematsu, Yoko
AU - Hishi, Takuo
AU - Itioka, Takao
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2014/4/8
Y1 - 2014/4/8
N2 - Pycnotarsobrentus inuiae Maruyama & Bartolozzi, gen. nov. and sp. nov. (Brentinae: Eremoxenini) is described from the Lambir Hills National Park, Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia) based on specimens collected from Crematogaster difformis F. Smith, 1857 ant nests in the myrmecophytic epiphytic ferns Platycerium crustacea Copel. and Lecanopteris ridleyi H. Christ. A second species of Pycnotarsobrentus is known from Malaysia but is represented by only one female and consequently not yet described pending discovery of a male. Pycnotarsobrentus belongs to the tribe Eremoxenini and shares some character states with the African genus Pericordus Kolbe, 1883. No species of Eremoxenini with similar morphological modifications are known from the Oriental region.
AB - Pycnotarsobrentus inuiae Maruyama & Bartolozzi, gen. nov. and sp. nov. (Brentinae: Eremoxenini) is described from the Lambir Hills National Park, Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia) based on specimens collected from Crematogaster difformis F. Smith, 1857 ant nests in the myrmecophytic epiphytic ferns Platycerium crustacea Copel. and Lecanopteris ridleyi H. Christ. A second species of Pycnotarsobrentus is known from Malaysia but is represented by only one female and consequently not yet described pending discovery of a male. Pycnotarsobrentus belongs to the tribe Eremoxenini and shares some character states with the African genus Pericordus Kolbe, 1883. No species of Eremoxenini with similar morphological modifications are known from the Oriental region.
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.5
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.5
M3 - Article
C2 - 24869524
AN - SCOPUS:84898029453
VL - 3786
SP - 73
EP - 78
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
SN - 1175-5326
IS - 1
ER -