Tribe 11. Holozodini 



This is a small tribe of macroscelines holding two specialized genera, one 

 of which [Holozodus) occurs in Madagascar, while the other is known from 

 the neotropics. This tribe, then, has a parallel zoogeography to the Goniacerini, 

 in that both are confined to two out of three of the world's great tropical and 

 subtropical regions. 



As in Pselaphini, the tarsi have a single tarsal claw and the second 

 tarsomere is not bilobed; they differ from Pselaphini in that the ventral 

 surface of the head is flattened, rather than gibbous, and the maxillary palpi 

 are radically different. These palpi are very small. Sharp (1887, p. 22) in 

 erecting Caccoplectus stated that the maxillary palpi "are unusually minute, 

 so that I can only with difficulty obtain a sight of the terminal joint." Raffray 

 (1908, p. 316) describes these palpi as follows: segment I invisible, II slightly 

 arcuate and slightly inflated apically. III very small and slightly triangular, 

 IV hardly as long as the preceding two united, briefly ovoidal and apically 

 obtuse. 



CACCOPLECTUS (Sharp, 1887) 



There are two species in this genus, the genotype, and a second species, 

 spinipes Schaeffer (1906) known from Texas. 



celatus Sharp. 1887. Zapote, Guatemala and Mexico. Genotype. 



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