Sellio, Species-Group

Hart, Charles J. & Ivie, Michael A., 2016, A Revision of the Genus Diastolinus Mulsant and Rey (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (3), pp. 485-540 : 485-540

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-70.3.485

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7035048

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E0146C34-8A1B-FFEE-F93F-C1A6FE4DFD3E

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scientific name

Sellio
status

 

Sellio ” Species-Group

Diagnosis. This species-group can be distinguished by a combination of small to large size (6.1–10.6 mm in length); constricted anterior 1/3 of the elytra, anterior of the point where stria 8 joins the lateral stria, to narrower than the basal width of the pronotum (the elytra sometimes expand anteriorly from the constricted point to subequal the width of the posterior edge of the pronotum or the posterior edge of pronotum wider than the base of the elytra); femora typically swollen and clavate, especially in the male fore legs; and male protibia often armed with a distinct stout spine. This group contains all of the former members of the genus Sellio and several species originally described in Diastolinus . The previous classification of Sellio as a separate genus had issues as there were species that were intermediates in form. What formerly was considered a separate genus is merely a grade, although useful for identification purposes. This group is distributed throughout Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands ( Figs. 102–104 View Fig View Fig View Fig ).

Sellio ” Species-Group

D. azuaensis Hart and Ivie , new species................ .............................................................Hispaniola

D. coarctatus ( Mulsant and Rey, 1859) .................. ............................................................ Hispaniola D. estebani Garrido, 2004 , new synonymy

D. desecheo Hart and Ivie , new species................. .................................................Desecheo Is. (PR)

D. doyeni Hart and Ivie , new species..................... ........................................................... Puerto Rico

D. espoloni Garrido, 2007 ......................Hispaniola

D. gladiator ( Garrido, 2004) ..................Hispaniola

D. tibidens ( Quensel, 1806) ................................. ..... Puerto Rico, Culebra, St. Thomas, St. John, Jost van Dyke, Tortola, Guana (TOR), Prickly Pear Is. (VG), St. Croix, Buck Is. (STX)

D. vaderi Hart and Ivie , new species....Hispaniola

D. victori Garrido, 2002 ..................... Puerto Rico D. elongatus Marcuzzi, 1977

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

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