Atamania Kazantsev, 2005

Kazantsev, Sergey V., 2021, New and little known taxa of neotenic lyropaeine net-winged beetles (Coleoptera Lycidae), Zootaxa 4965 (3), pp. 437-460 : 457

Genus Atamania Kazantsev, 2005

Atamania Kazantsev, 2005: 8 .

Type species: Atamania tembeling Kazantsev, 2005 (by original designation).

Horakiella Bocakova, 2006: 134 , syn. nov.

Type species: Horakiella pahangana Bocakova, 2006 (by original designation).

Remarks. Although Atamania externally resembles Platerodrilus , distinguishable by the short mandibles and less deflexed at sides pronotum ( Figs 67, 68 ), it (as Horakiella ) is placed in a different clade by the DNA analysis ( Masek et al., 2015). Horakiella pahangana Bocakova, 2006 , the type species of Horakiella Bocakova, 2006 , described without comparison to Atamania , is apparently congeneric with A. tembeling , the type species of Atamania : the only character in which the two taxa seem to be different is the non-incised distally terminal tergite of Horakiella ( Bocakova, 2006) ; while this character itself is not critical for generic delimitation, as present in other unrelated lineages and not an apomorphy of the genus, there is a possibility that the miniature distal incision was overlooked in the distally semi-folded terminal tergite of H. pahangana ; a comparison of these two species, both from Pahang, Malaysia, is needed to check if they are not even conspecific. Therefore, Horakiella Bocakova, 2006 , syn. nov. is proposed to be considered a junior synonym of Atamania Kazantsev, 2005 .

Distribution. Malay Peninsula and northern Borneo.

Figures

FIGURES 67–73. General view and details of Atamania tembeling, holotype male: 67—general view; 68—front part of body; 69–71—terminal abdominal segments; 72–73—aedeagus; 67, 71–72—dorsally; 68—anterior–ventrally; 69—ventrally; 70, 73—laterally. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.