Pilisaprinus Kanaar, 1996

Lackner, Tomáš, 2013, Elevation of Pilisaprinus to full generic status with notes on the evolution of termitoxeny in the Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 623-632 : 624-625

Pilisaprinus Kanaar, 1996 stat. nov.

Pilisaprinus Kanaar, 1996: 130 , as a subgenus of Saprinus . Type species: Saprinus verschureni Thérond, 1959 , original designation.

Pilisaprinus: MAZUR (2011) : 179.

Diagnosis. Rather large Saprininae taxon (PEL 4.50–4.75 mm) with black, non-metallic dorsum, wholly punctate. Antennal club with slit-like pits and 6 sensory vesicles; frontal and supraorbital striae absent; pronotal hypomeron, prosternum and elytral epipleuron setose. Inner subhumeral elytral stria fused with humeral elytral stria forming another, complementary dorsal elytral stria. Carinal prosternal striae rudimentary, present only on prosternal apophysis.

Differential diagnosis. By the peculiar chaetotaxy and sensory structures of the antennal club, setose elytral epipleuron as well as fused inner subhumeral and humeral elytral striae this taxon cannot be confused with any other currently described Afrotropical taxon of Saprininae (see also LACKNER 2013 for the Key to the Afrotropical genera of the Saprininae ).

Distribution. Described from Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaïre), found also in Ivory Coast and Benin. Presumably distributed across the entire tropical Africa.