Three Additions to the False Click Beetle (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Eucnemidae) Fauna in the Nearctic Region

Authors

Robert L. Otto, Shawano, Wisconsin, United StatesFollow

ORCID IDs

0000-0002-5679-4044

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

5-3-2024

Citation

Insecta Mundi (May 3, 2024) 1047: 1-14

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Open access

License: CC BY-NC 3.0

Abstract

Three species of false click beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae) are added to the Nearctic fauna. One new species, Isorhipis bicolor, is described from a small series collected in Florida, U.S.A. Eighteen specimens collected from Georgia were identified as Dyscharachthis amplicollis (Fleutiaux), new U.S.A. records for a species previously taken from Japan and Southeast Asia. Examination of a series of eucnemids collected by Kyle Schnepp in Florida allowed me to revisit the Deltometopus fauna in eastern North America. Antennal structures present in a series of male specimens in the loan and past examined specimens are definitive enough to resurrect Deltometopus ereptus Bonvouloir, status restored, from synonymy with Deltometopus amoenicornis (Say). Species identification keys are provided for Deltometopus Bonvouloir and Isorhipis Boisduval and Lacordaire in the Nearctic region. Diagnostic differences are briefly noted for each of the three newly added species found in the United States. Images of three species and the related D. amoenicornis are provided.

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