Pigeus clavipes ( Mäklin, 1864 ) Yuan, Cai-Xia, Ren, Guo-Dong & Masumoto, Kimio, 2015

Yuan, Cai-Xia, Ren, Guo-Dong & Masumoto, Kimio, 2015, Note On The Taxonomic Position Of Strongylium Clavipes Mäklin, 1864 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 295, pp. 12-14 : 13

Pigeus clavipes ( Mäklin, 1864) , comb. n.

Fig. 1

Strongylium clavipes Mäklin, 1864: 439 .

DISTRIBUTION. China (Shanghai).

NOTES. This species resembles the genus Strongyium in the elongated and subcylindrical body, but differs from latter (as well as from all other genera of the tribe Stenochiini ) by eyes much smaller, distance between eyes in dorsal view greater than diameter of one eye; ventral side of tarsomeres with dense tomentose, which are typical for tribe Cnodalonini . By subcylindrical body this species belongs to the Camarine group of Cnodalonini , and somewhat resembles Camarimena , but can be distinguished from latter by the filiform long antennae and by the empodium with two hairs ( Gebien, 1919) and undoubtedly must be placed in the genus Pigeus .

Figures

Fig. 1. Type of Pigeus clavipes (Mäklin, 1864), dorsal view.