Zidalus, MULSANT & REY, 1853

Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2015, Phylogenetic reassessment and biogeography of the Ectateus generic group (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Platynotina), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (1), pp. 73-106 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12263
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543291
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scientific name	Zidalus
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GENUS ZIDALUS MULSANT & REY, 1853 ( FIG. 31 View Figures 31–46 )

= Zodinus Mulsant et Rey syn. by Iwan (1995). Type species: Opatrinus servus Mulsant & Rey, 1853 ; designated by Koch (1956).

= Apterozidalus Ardoin, 1965 syn. by Iwan (1995). Type species: Apterozidalus royi Ardoin, 1965 ; by monophyly.

Type species: Opatrinus corvinus Mulsant & Rey, 1853 ; by monotypy.

Diagnostic characters: For diagnostic characters and distribution see Iwan (2002a).

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comores, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Guinea- Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain (Canary Islands), Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Species composition (13 species): Zidalus attenuatus (Klug, 1833) , Zidalus botswanensis Iwan & Becˇvárˇ, 2001, Zidalus burakowskii Iwan, 1995 , Zidalus corvinus ( Mulsant & Rey, 1853) , Zidalus costulatus ( Guérin, 1849) , Zidalus erythraeus ( Gridelli, 1940) , Zidalus exalatus (Koch, 1956) , Zidalus latipes ( Sahlberg, 1823) , Zidalus mahaimorum Iwan, 1995 , Zidalus mirabilis (Koch, 1956) , Zidalus niloticus ( Mulsant & Rey, 1853) , Zidalus royi ( Ardoin, 1965) , Zidalus servus ( Mulsant & Rey, 1853) .