Biolus sauroides (Koch) Lumen, Ryan & Kamdńskd, Marcdn J., 2024

Lumen, Ryan & Kamdńskd, Marcdn J., 2024, evdsdon of the darkldng beetle genus Eurynotus (Blaptdnae: Platynotdnd % and new records of ovovdvdpary dn ºenebrdonddae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 201 (201), pp. 358-386 : 379

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zooldnnean/zlad146
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13323872
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C27387A7-FFE7-FFC8-9A88-07DFFE5C7174
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Biolus sauroides (Koch)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

8. Biolus sauroides (Koch) comb. nov.

( Figs 2H View Figure 2 , 6A, I View Figure 6 , 8H View Figure 8 )

Eurynotus View in CoL ( Biolus) sauroides Koch 1955: 420 .– Kamiński 2016: 235.

Diagnosis: Biolus sauroides is sharply separable from all other spe - cies by the extremely coarse sculpturing dorsally and ventrally (large, knobby tubercles extending to the disc and base of the elytra and large closely spaced punctures on abdominal under - side). Koch’s (1955) description outlines most of the species morphology sufficiently. Here we provide only additional char - acters we found in a description below to supplement Koch’s description.

Supplementary description (see: Koch 1955): Abdomen: Abdominal ventrite V with setigerous punctures. Females without median apical notch. Legs: Male midtibia with small spurical projection at apex. Male terminalia: Parameres weakly tapering with tips sharply tapering and directed medially. Female Terminalia: Bursa copulatrix without sclerites or accessory pouch.

Material examined: Holotype (TMNH): ‘Garies Namaqualand; Museum Staff June 1930; sauroides Koch ; Paratypus Eurynotus sauroides C. Koch sp. n. ’.

(See Supporting Information, Appendix S1 for additional ma - terial examined.)

Distribution: South Africa (Fig. 9).