Classification, natural history and evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera, Cleridae) Part 5

Title Variants

Alternative: Decorosa Opitz, a new genus of checkered beetles from Hispaniola with description of its four new species

Alternative: Epiphloeinae

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3628

By

Opitz, Weston

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2008

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Caption title.

"September 10, 2008."

Abstract also in Spanish.

Pt. 1 is: The genera of Epiphloeinae. 1997. (In Insecta mundi v. 11, no. 1.); pt. 2 is: The genera Chaetophloeus Opitz and Plocamocera Spinola. 2004. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 280); pt. 3 is: The genera Parvochaetus Opitz, Amboakis Opitz, and Ellipotoma Spinola. 2006. (In Insecta mundi v. 20, no. 3-4); pt. 4 is: The genera Pyticeroides Kuwert and Diapromeces Opitz. 2007. (In Entomologica Basiliencia et Collectionis Frey Bd. 29).

[English abstract]. The new genus Decorosa Opitz, known only from the Dominican Republic, and its four new species are described: D. aladecoris, D. iviei, D. limatula, and D. neiba. Reduction of the seventh row of elytral punctations and filiform funicular antennomeres distinguish Decorosa specimens from other epiphloeines with antennae composed of 10 antennomeres. Aside from the conventional components of generic revisions this treatise also includes a review of Greater Antillean and Hispaniolan paleogeography, and comments about phylogenetics and zoogeographic considerations. Distributional records, in conjunction with analysis of intrageneric relationships suggest that Decorosa evolved in northern Hispaniola. Available specimens of Decorosa were collected from mountain forests of the Cordillera Central (1160-2885 m), Sierra de Neiba, (1856-1874 m), and from eastern terrain prehistorically considered part of the northern element of ancient Hispaniola. Compelling evidence from geology and biology suggests that extant Hispaniola was prehistorically composed of a northern and southern island. It is suggested that ancestral Decorosa split into the limatula-iviei and decorosa-neiba stocks in the more northern ancient terrain of Hispaniola. Subsequently, each of two ancestral lineages yielded at least two sister species. It is further postulated that there occurred two dispersal events that brought one species of each sister pair to more southern Hispaniola; limatula from the limatula-iviei lineage and neiba from the aladecoris-neiba lineage.

Subjects

Beetles , Classification , Cleridae , Decorosa , Hispaniola , Insects

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3628 2008

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/599.1
OCLC: 251441026