Adelopspeleon Salgado

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 : 52

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797373
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scientific name	Adelopspeleon Salgado
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Genus Adelopspeleon Salgado View in CoL

Adelopspeleon Salgado, 2012: 54 View in CoL [declared as masculine gender (sic)]. Type species: Adelopspeleon acuminatum Salgado View in CoL (orig. des.).

Note: Name originally stated as masculine, but here considered neuter, because it is based on the Greek noun “spelaion” (cave), following ICZN (1999: Art. 30.1.2). Actually, although Salgado declared the genus as masculine gender, he correctly used neuter gender for the type species name.

Distribution: Ecuador.

Biology: Unknown; probably carrion scavengers in forests; the only species known was collected in a cave (probably a troglophile, because no troglomorphisms were recorded).

References

ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth edition. London. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. Available from: http: // www. iczn. org / iczn / index. jsp (accessed 24 September 2019)

Salgado, J. M. (2012) Descubrimiento de un genero y dos especies nuevas em uma cueva del noroeste de Ecuador: Adelopspeleon acuminatum n. gen, n. sp. y Ptomaphagus (Adelops) cubensis n. sp. (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Anemadini). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 51, 53 - 60.