Antillengis brunnipes (Skelley, 1910)

Skelley, Paul E., 2009, Pleasing fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Erotylinae), Insecta Mundi 2009 (82), pp. 1-94 : 18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5405085

publication LSID

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scientific name

Antillengis brunnipes
status

 

Distribution. Antillengis brunnipes occurs in Cuba in the Sierra Maestra.

Type Material. Male holotype Oocyanus brunnipes Kuhnt ( Fig. 141-142 View Figure 141-147 ) possesses the following labels: “/ [green paper, hand written] Cuba / [green paper, hand written] Cuba Reihe / [orange paper] Type / Kuhnt det. / 21270 / [white paper black lined box, vertical on left side] det. P. Kuhnt [horizontal, hand written] Oocyanus brunnipes Kuhnt / [red paper] HOLOTYPE Oocyanus brunnipes Kuhnt , det. P. Skelley- 08 / Antillengis brunnipes (Kuhnt) , det. P. Skelley 2008 /” ( Fig. 143 View Figure 141-147 , ZMHB).

Specimens Examined. Three additional specimens have been studied, all with the same label data: CUBA: Santiago Prov., Gran Piedra, Ind Chorrito, 9.XII. 1995, 600m, km8, leaf & stick litter, S. Peck, 95-88 (2-CMNC, 1-PESC).

Variation. Available specimens exhibit little variation.

Remarks. Antillengis brunnipes has been a puzzle from the moment it was first studied. Kuhnt (1910) described this species in Oocyanus (Tritomini) and Curran (1944) erroneously synonymized it based on the description alone. Thanks to observations by P. Wegrzynowicz (pers. comm.), Kuhnt’s type was located in “box # 2 with the Pselaphacus ”. Someone previously recognized the similarity of the epistomal notch with that of Pselaphacus and placed the type of O. brunnipes with that genus. Closer study of various characters led to its present placement in Megalodacnini .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Antillengis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Oocyanus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Antillengis

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