Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský, 1963

Park, Sun-Jae & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2007, Two Pseudoliodine genera Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský and Pseudcolenis Reitter (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leiodinae) in Korea, with a description of Pseudcolenis hoshinai new species, Zootaxa 1427, pp. 49-56 : 50

Genus Dermatohomoeus Hlisnikovský, 1963

See Newton (1998) and Hoshina (1999) for synonymy and references. Type species: Dermatohomoeus guineensis Hlisnikovský, 1963 .

Diagnosis. Body very convex, glabrous, almost concolorous, brown to dark brown. Head not striolate, finely and densely punctate. Antenna ( Fig. 3 ) slender; antennomere 8 as long as or shorter than half of 9; 7 and 9–11 pubescent with long or short setae and 1–6 and 8 sparser. Mandible asymmetrical, with molar lobe bearing well developed grinding surface. Clypeal line ( Fig. 1 ) fine, apical margin of clypeus not emarginate. Labrum ( Fig. 1 ) with slight apical emargination. Eyes ( Fig. 1 ) oval, relatively small, slightly narrowed behind eyes. Pronotum not transversely striolate, weakly microreticulate or not, finely and densely punctate. Elytra strongly and densely or sparsely striolate, weakly microreticulate, finely and densely punctate. Mesosternum with medial carina; mesocoxal cavity relatively close to mesepimeron. Tarsal formula 5-4- 4 in both sexes, meso- and metatarsomere 1 distinctly longer than 2. Aedeagus elongate, ventral piece usually projected and longer than median lobe. Spermatheca ( Fig. 16 ) distinct.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. Head (1 – 2) and antenna (3 – 5), dorsal aspect. 1, 3: Dermatohomoeus terrenus (Hisamatsu); 2, 5: Pseudcolenis hoshinai Park & Ahn, new species; 4: P. hilleri Reitter. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 16 – 18. Spermatheca, lateral aspect. 16: Dermatohomoeus terrenus (Hisamatsu); 17: Pseudcolenis hilleri Reitter; 18: P. hoshinai Park & Ahn, new species. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.