Micropedinus Lewis, 1894

Aalbu, Rolf L., Kanda, Kojun, Merkl, Otto, Ivie, Michael A. & Johnston, M. Andrew, 2023, Reconstitution of some tribes and genera of Lagriinae (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), ZooKeys 1172, pp. 155-202 : 155

Genus Micropedinus Lewis, 1894

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Micropedinus Lewis, 1894: 370. Type species: Micropedinus algae Lewis, 1894.

= Notoprataeus Carter, 1924:37. Type species: Notoprataeus litoralis Carter, 1924. Synonymy by Matthews and Lawrence (2005: 534).

= Microlyprops Kaszab, 1939: 108. Type species: Microlyprops ceylonicus Kaszab, 1939. syn. nov.

Note.

This genus is known from littoral habitats in the Australasian, Indomalayan, and eastern Palearctic regions. The synonymy of Microlyprops was first suggested by Kaszab in his unpublished annotations within his physical copy of Gebien’s Catalog ( Gebien 1941) complemented with handwritten remarks "[ Microlyprops ] Micropedinus maderi Kaszab [ …] = Micropedinus ( Phaleriini ), p. 497". Moreover, he placed the Microlyprops specimens in the material of Micropedinus in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. One of the co-authors, Otto Merkl, studied this material and confirmed the synonymy, but had not yet taken images before his passing. This synonymy results in the following species-group changes: Micropedinus ceylonicus (Kaszab, 1939), comb. nov. and Micropedinus maderi (Kaszab, 1940), comb. nov.

Figures

Figures 6 - 14. Dorsal habitus of representatives of Prateini genera. 6 Bolitrium chinensis (Kaszab, 1940), holotype 7 Enicmosoma sp. 8 Indenicmosoma punctator Kaszab, 1979 9 Iscanus trukensis (Kulzer, 1957), paratype 10 Mesotretis ferruginea Bates, 1872, syntype 11 Microcalcar instriatum (Pic, 1925) 12 Micropedinus sp. 13 Paratenetus punctatus Spinola, 1844 14 Tithassa corynomelas Pascoe, 1860. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (7, 8); 1 mm (9, 12, 13); images lacking scale bars were produced by Otto Merkl and sizes of specimens were not recorded before he passed.