Scotoscopus Brenske & Reitter, resurrected status

Engel, Michael S., Falin, Zachary H. & Batelka, Jan, 2019, A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae), ZooKeys 857, pp. 59-84 : 59

Genus Scotoscopus Brenske & Reitter, resurrected status

Scotoscopus Brenske & Reitter, 1884: 92. Type species: Scotoscopus carbonarius Reitter in Brenske & Reitter, 1884 (= Clinops spectabilis Schaufuss, 1872), by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Body slender; elytra 4.0 –4.8× as long as pronotal disc, coloration of head, elytra, meso- and metathorax and abdomen dark brown or black, pronotum bright red in males and dark-red with black markings, setae dark, sparsely distributed and indistinct; head with postocular genae expanded into lobes; compound eye not expanded beyond mandibular base and with a small extra-antennal sclerotous emargination; antenna with eleven antennomeres; male antenna with antennomeres I–III simple, III compressed, almost lenticular, IV–X with inner-facing, flabellate, compressed rami, XI similar in shape to preceding rami; female antenna similar to male, antennomere III long and cylindrical, rami much shorter, pectinate, compressed; ultimate maxillary palpomere cylindrical, apical width 3 × less than maximum length, with blunt, truncate apex, not grossly enlarged; distal sensory duct on ultimate maxillary palpomere elongate, strongly oblique. Lateral aspect of pronotum with a ventrally bowed sulcus; pronotal disc without longitudinal medial impression; mesosternum weakly convex, without medial keel; metepisternum without elytron-receiving carina; posterior aspect of metepimeron slightly expanded. Metacoxa with strongly developed posterior flange; ventral surface of pro- and mesofemora in males without densely setose patch; tibial spur formula 0-2-2; pretarsal claws bifid, with blunt, small subsidiary tooth proximal to inner bifid ramus (Fig. 29). Male genitalia with parameres strongly curved, with apexes overlapping each other.

Comments.

Batelka (2005) recognized that the type species of the genus was a junior synonym of Clinops spectabilis Schaufuss, and he accordingly synonymized the two genera. However, based on the differences in tibial spur formula between Clinops (vide supra) and the type species of Scotoscopus , we herein reinstate the genus.