TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the genera Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 and Durandius Kaszab, 1970 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with description of R. hosoishii sp. nov. from an ant nest in Cambodia
AU - Maruyama, Munetoshi
AU - Ando, Kiyoshi
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We thank Dr. Shingo Hosoishi (Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University) for offering the material and the biological information of the new species and Dr. Tetsukazu Yahara for establishing co-operative relationship with Cambodian government and institutes which allowed biodiversity research by the staff of Kyushu University. They also confirmed the local collaborators suggesting the type depository of new species (at least part of them will be returned when a reliable collection facility is established in Cambodia, as well as the material in the other papers by Kyushu University staff). We also thank the late Dr. Ottó Merkl (Hungarian Natural History Museum) for kindly making a loan of the important material used in this paper, and Dr. Hasin Sasitorn (Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, Thailand) for a geographical information concerning the type locality of R. bremeri. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller and Dr. Luboš Purchart for critically reviewing the manuscript. The colleting survey in Cambodia by Dr. Hosoishi was supported in part by the Global COE program (Center of Excellence for Asian Conservation Ecology as a Basis of Humannature Mutualism), MEXT, Japan funded to Kyushu University. This paper is supported by KAKENHI (19H03285) funded to MM.
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PY - 2022/11/16
Y1 - 2022/11/16
N2 - The enigmatic tenebrionid genera Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 and Durandius Kaszab, 1970 are briefly reviewed and diagnosed. Rondoniella hosoishii sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from a nest of the arboreal ant Crematogaster sewardi in Cambodia. Because of where R. hosoishii sp. nov. was collected and its specialized morphology, the members of Rondoniella and its close relative Durandius are considered to be myrmecophilous, as was suggested in the original description. They also have reduced mouthparts, which are unknown in other tenebrionids, and they might receive food from ants by trophallaxis.
AB - The enigmatic tenebrionid genera Rondoniella Kaszab, 1970 and Durandius Kaszab, 1970 are briefly reviewed and diagnosed. Rondoniella hosoishii sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from a nest of the arboreal ant Crematogaster sewardi in Cambodia. Because of where R. hosoishii sp. nov. was collected and its specialized morphology, the members of Rondoniella and its close relative Durandius are considered to be myrmecophilous, as was suggested in the original description. They also have reduced mouthparts, which are unknown in other tenebrionids, and they might receive food from ants by trophallaxis.
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.2.9
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.2.9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85143145178
SN - 1175-5326
VL - 5209
SP - 293
EP - 300
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 2
ER -