Slipinskogenia, Gimmel, 2011

Gimmel, Matthew L., 2011, World Catalogue of Propalticidae, with a replacement name for Discogenia Kolbe (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), Insecta Mundi 2011 (155), pp. 1-12 : 8-9

SLIPINSKOGENIA , nom. nov.

Discogenia Kolbe 1897: 112 (description [in German]; as genus of Colydiidae ).

TYPE SPECIES. Discogenia disciformis Kolbe, 1897 , fixed by monotypy.

Discogenia: John 1939: 294 (transfer to Notiophygidae [= Discolomatidae ]).

Discogenia: John 1940: 257-259 (diagnosis [in Latin]; redescription [in German]; division into two species groups).

Discogenia: John 1942: 401 (discussion of diagnostic characters).

Discogenia: John 1954: 66 , 69, plate 19 (fig. 9) (removal from Notiophygidae ; notes [in German]; catalogue of species, illustration of vestiture).

Discogenia: John 1956: 67 , 72 (notes; tentative transfer to Endomychidae : Mycetaeinae ).

Discogenia: John 1960: 151 (transfer to Propalticidae ; catalogue entry; diagnosis [in Latin]; notes on species groups [in German]).

Discogenia: Crowson and Sen Gupta 1969: 133 , 134 (figs. 4, 11) (key to genera of Propalticidae ; illustration of head dorsally and aedeagus).

DISTRIBUTION. Known only from continental Africa ( Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo).

DIVERSITY. 11 species.