Selinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853

Kaminski, Marcin Jan, 2014, A cladistically based reinterpretation of the taxonomy of two Afrotropical tenebrionid genera Ectateus Koch, 1956 and Selinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Platynotina), ZooKeys 415, pp. 81-132 : 116-117

Genus Selinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853

Selinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853a: 322. - Lacordaire 1859: 241, Gemminger and de Harold 1870: 1915; Gebien 1910: 277, 1938: 297; Koch 1956: 242; Iwan 2001b: 352, 2002a: 100, 2002b: 302, 2004a: 541, 2004b: 739, 2005: 615; Iwan and Banaszkiewicz 2005: 603, 2007: 725.

Type species.

Opatrum planum Fabricius, 1792; designated by Gebien (1938).

Diagnosis.

The following character combination is unique for Selinus within the whole subtribe Platynotina : (1) anterior tentorial pit deep, clearly visible, (2) antennomeres from 7 to 11 elongated (their length greater than the width), (3) pronotum widest at the base, (4) 5th abdominal ventrite bordered, (5) paraproct longer than coxites, (6) clavae long, their length more than half of the length of parameres.

Distribution.

Specimens of this genus have been collected in the following ecoregions of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Republic of Benin, Republic of Ghana, Republic of Guinea, Republic of Mali, Togolese Republic): Eastern Guinean forests, Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, West Sudanian savanna, Western Guinean lowland forests (Fig. 44).

Species included (2).

Selinus planus (Fabricius, 1792) and Selinus striatus (Fabricius, 1794).

Key to the species of Selinus