Kolibacia Leschen & Lackner, 2013

Kolibac, Jiri, 2013, Trogossitidae: A review of the beetle family, with a catalogue and keys, ZooKeys 366, pp. 1-194 : 25-27

Genus Kolibacia Leschen & Lackner, 2013 Fig. 4 ; Map 4

Kolibacia Leschen, R. A. B. & Lackner, T. 2013: 288.

Type species.

Leperina tibialis Reitter, 1889 [designated by Leschen and Lackner 2013]

Schawaller, W. 1993: 4 ( Leperina and Seidlitzella , Palaearctic species). Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press)

Description

(according to Leschen and Lackner 2013). Body size: 7.2-9.1 mm. Colour of body black. Dorsal vestiture consisting of scales. Head extending beyond anterior angles of pronotum. Frons more or less horizontal with mandibles visible from above. Median lobe of clypeus absent. Edge of labrum straight. Eyes entire. Gena acute. Supraocular scales present. Antenna 11-segmented with a loose club; lengths of antennomere II and III equal; antennomere XI circular, about as long as wide. Prothorax with lateral carinae unevenly crenulate; anterior angles projecting or acute; posterior angles angulate. Surface of pronotal disc even; punctation uniform and bearing scales. Procoxae visible in lateral view. Hypomeron bearing scales; anterior portion rugose. Length of elytra 4 × as long as pronotum or even longer; seven elytral carinae present, not beaded and not rising significantly above surface of elytral disc; sublateral keel absent; intercarinal space bipunctate; window punctures present and simple; intercarinal scales never countersunk within punctures; lateral carina simple; epipleuron visible in lateral view. Hind wings present, fully developed; MP3 spur absent. Aedeagus ( Kolibáč 2005) with parameres apically angulate; inner outline between parameres weakly sinuate or straight; length of parameres longer than base of tegmen. Protibial edge smooth, mucro absent; protibial spurs longer than tarsomere 2, anteriormost protibial spur greatly enlarged.

Larva (according to Kolibáč 2005): Frontal arms V-shaped. Epicranial stem reduced. Endocarina present. Mandibular apical teeth number: two, horizontally situated. Lacinia mandibulae with several small spines. Mola absent. Maxillary palpi 3-segmented. Mala: bidentate protrusion absent. Cardo: size much smaller than stipes. Ligula absent. Labial palpi 2-segmented. Prementum in single part. Antennal joints 1 and 2 elongate. Thoracic sclerites pattern (dorsally) 1-2-2. Abdominal segment IX not divided. Tergite IX flat. Urogomphi present, hooked; median process absent.

Biology.

The adults and larvae are probably predatory. An adult Kolibacia squamulata was, for example, found in rotten birch ( Schawaller 1993). Mamaev (1976) remarked that Kolibacia squamulata develops under bark and sometimes within the trunks of various deciduous trees infested with the larvae of Melandrya , Tremex fuscicornis , Mesosa , Plagionotus and others. On the other hand, Leschen and Lackner (2013) consider both species mycophagous, citing Kryzhanovskij (1965) and Nikitsky (1992). The former source is unknown to me, but the latter author considers Kolibacia squamulata predatory. However, Kolibacia squamulata differs from Leperina in the presence of the mandibular mola which is definitely a feature of mycophagous cleroids, although it may also be considered a primitive (rudimentary) character, a trait seen in similar fashion in certain Gymnocheilis species (see figures in Kolibáč 2005).

Distribution.

Russian Far East, Mongolia, North Korea, North-eastern China, Japan: Hokkaido, Tsushima.

Species:

Kolibacia okinawana Yoshitomi & Lee (in press); Japan: Okinawa, Amami-Ôshima (AD)

Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press)

Kolibacia regularis Grouvelle, 1913; Taiwan, Vietnam (varA)

Grouvelle, A. 1913: 46 ( Leperina ). Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press; comb. Kolibacia , key)

Kolibacia squamulata Gebler, 1830 ( Peltis ); Russian Far East, Mongolia, North Korea, Northeastern China (varA, JK)

Léveillé, A. 1910: 22. Esaki, T. et al. 1951: 1061 ( Lepidopteryx squamulosa ). Kolibáč, J. 2006: 107 ( Lepidopteryx squamulosa ). Kolibáč, J. 2007a: 364. Löbl & Smetana 2010: 26 ( Lepidopteryx ). Mamaev, B. M. 1976: 1652 (larva, Lepidopteryx ). Nakane, T. et al. 1963: 181 ( Lepidopteryx squamulosa ). Nikitsky, N. B. 1992: 81 ( Lepidopteryx squamulosa ). Leschen, R. A. B. & Lackner, T. 2013: 288. (comb. Kolibacia ). Schawaller, W. 1993: 3 (key, Leperina ). Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press; key)

Kolibacia tsushimana Nakane, 1985; Japan: Tsushima (varA)

Nakane, T. 1985: 162 ( Lepidopteryx squamulata tsushimana ). Kolibáč, J. 2009: 128 ( Lepidopteryx squamulata tsushimana ). Miyatake, M. 1985: 148 ( Leperina tsushimana ). Leschen, R. A. B. & Lackner, T. 2013: 288. (comb. Kolibacia squamulata tsushimana ). Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press; Kolibacia tsushimana ; key)

Kolibacia tibialis Reitter, 1889 ( Leperina ); Japan: Hokkaido (varA)

Léveillé, A. 1910: 22. Esaki, T. et al. 1951: 1061. Kolibáč, J. 2007a: 364. Löbl & Smetana 2010: 26 ( Lepidopteryx ). Nakane, T. et al. 1963: 181. Nikitsky, N. B. 1992: 81. Leschen, R. A. B. & Lackner, T. 2013: 288. (comb. Kolibacia ). Yoshitomi, H. & Lee, C.-F. (in press; key)

Figures

Figure 4. A Anacypta sp., Vietnam B Anacypta punctata C Anacypta sp., Laos D Gymnocheilis subfasciata E Gymnocheilis sp., Ghana F Gymnocheilis varia G Kolibacia regularis H Kolibacia squamulata I Leperina cirrosa.

Map 4. A distribution of the tribe Gymnochilini.