Neothallis bizonata ( Macleay, 1887 ) Skelley & Leschen & Liu, 2021

Skelley, Paul E., Leschen, Richard A. B. & Liu, Zhenhua, 2021, Nomenclatural notes for some Australian Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), Zootaxa 4966 (1), pp. 69-76 : 74

Neothallis bizonata ( Macleay, 1887) , new combination

Thallis bizonata Macleay 1887: 328 . Chûjô & Chûjô 1988: 151.

Comments. Neothallis Fauvel (1891) is a genus of Dacnini unique from other genera in having a concave mesoventrite with a broad prosternal rest allowing the prosternal process to nearly touch the metaventrite, and sublateral pronotal sulci ( Delkeskamp 1961). Thallis bizonata ( Figs. 11–13 ) clearly shows both of these characters and the transfer is here validated.

Figures

FIGURES 8–13. Type specimens with labels. 8–10) Hymaea laticollis Carter, 1908, holotype male with curved protibia and toothed profemur (MVMA), courtesy Kristy Hoath (2020b), Museums Victoria; 11–12) Thallis bizonata Macleay 1887, syntypes (ANIC); 13) Thallis bizonata, ventral habitus (ANIC).