Eucatops Portevin

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 : 36-37

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scientific name	Eucatops Portevin
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Genus Eucatops Portevin View in CoL

Eucatops Portevin, 1903a: 162 View in CoL ; Jeannel, 1936: 46 (redescription). Type species: Eucatops curvipes Portevin View in CoL (5 species in original description, all as “new”— curvipes View in CoL , ater View in CoL , grouvellei View in CoL , rufescens View in CoL , oblongus View in CoL ); des. in Jeannel, 1922: 39 (not stated as taxonomic change).

Distribution: Neotropical. Note: One undetermined (?undescribed) species (subgenus Eucatops ) from Tobago Island (of Trinidad and Tobago) (Peck et al., 2002: 12); Salgado (2003b: 58) “describes” an undetermined species (in subgenus Eucatops ) based on 2 females from Ecuador (it might have been described afterwards, because Salgado described species from the same locality, but no further reference to this material was made by that author).

Biology: Carrion scavenger in forests; some species seemingly are in ant nests.

References

Jeannel, R. (1922) Biospeologica XLVII. Silphidae Catopinae (Coleopteres) (deuxieme serie) avec une etude phylogenique et paleogeographique de la sous-famille. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale, 61, 1 - 98.

Jeannel, R. (1936) Monographie des Catopidae. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, New Series, 1, 1 - 433.

Portevin, G. (1903 a) Clavicornes nouveau du groupe des Necrophages. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 72, 156 - 168, pl. 2.

Salgado, J. M. (2003 b) El genero Eucatops en Ecuador; descripcion de dos especies nuevas (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Eucatopini). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, New Series, 20, 51 - 60.