Neopelatops Jeannel

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797461
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scientific name	Neopelatops Jeannel
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Genus Neopelatops Jeannel View in CoL

Neopelatops Jeannel, 1936: 12 View in CoL . Type species: Neopelatops edwardsi Jeannel View in CoL (monotypy).

Key: to species in Salgado, 2015b: 8.

Distribution: Southern Chile, southwestern Argentina; five undescribed species known from Australia (AFN, personal data).

Biology:Australian species are attracted to and feed on slime molds ( Myxomycetes) as larvae and adults ( Newton, 1984); the Chilean species probably have similar habits, with one record on the slime mold Stemonitis sp., but most specimens have been collected in flight traps and on fungusy logs or in leaf litter.