Taphroscelidia humeralis
Creators: name: Zubarán, Gastón E.
name: Di Iorio, Osvaldo R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Passandridae
Taphroscelidia
Taphroscelidia humeralis

description: Taphroscelidia humeralis (Grouvelle, 1916)
Fig. 3 (distribution)
Scalidia humeralis Grouvelle 1916: 17 (description; distribution).
Scalidia ignota Grouvelle 1916: 18 (description; distribution).
Scalidia ignota: Blackwelder 1945: 423 (catalog; distribution); Viana & Williner 1978: 38 (distribution; natural history).
Taphroscelidia humeralis: Burckhardt & Ślipiński 1991: 475 (comb. n.; synonymy; description; distribution; figs. 97, 101, 119, 141); Burckhardt & Ślipiński 2003: 871 (references; distribution; figs. 575, 579, 597, 619).
Literature records: BRAZIL: Goiás; Mato Grosso (Burckhardt & Ślipiński 1991, 2003); ARGENTINA (Blackwelder 1945): Santiago del Estero (Burckhardt & Ślipiński 1991, 2003); Córdoba: Alta Gracia; Capilla del Monte; [Dto. Calamuchita], El Sauce, in Prosopis sp. [dry boles] (Viana & Williner 1978).
Material examined: ARGENTINA: Salta: Las Lajitas, 15-XII-1991, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged from Celtis pallida ssp. sericea [standing dead plant] (Appendix 1); Catamarca: La Ciénaga (Belén), W. Wolters leg., XII- 1925, 3 exx. [CBBA]; Chumbicha, 5-II-1993, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged from Prosopis chilensis [branches girdled by Oncideres germari] (Appendix 1); Santiago del Estero: Girardet, 1 ex. [CBBA]; Corrientes: Río Paraná, Isla Noguera, 30-VIII-1990, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged from Paullinia elegans [dry vine] (Appendix 1); La Rioja: Anillaco, 10-V-1998, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged 27-I-99 from Geoffroea decorticans [dead standing trees] (Appendix 1); Famatina, 5-VII-1998, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. [DIOC], emerged 2-I-99 from Caesalpinia gilliesii [dead standing plants]; Los Molinos, 28-IX-2001, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged 6-X-01 from Juglans regia [lopped branches] (Appendix 1); Córdoba: Alta Gracia, La Granja, C. Bruch leg., 10-I-1925, 1 ex. [CBBA], 10-II- 1927, 1 ex. [CBBA]; Santa Fe: Coronda, Arroyo Colastiné, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. [DIOC], emerged from Prosopis alba [branches girdled by Oncideres germari] (Appendix 1); Entre Ríos: Liebig, 8-I-1997, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged 7-II-97 from Acacia bonariensis [lopped plant] (Appendix 1); Ceibas, 12-X-1995, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged 26-XII-95 from Prosopis affinis [fallen dry young tree] (Appendix 1); San Luis: Sierra de las Quijadas, 20-IV-1994, Di Iorio leg., 3 exx. [DIOC], emerged from Prosopis nigra [dead standing tree]; Sierra de las Quijadas, 24-IV-1996, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. [DIOC], emerged 1-I-1997 from Prosopis torquata [dead standing plant] (Appendix 1); Hualtarán, Paraje Tres Lomas, 14-IV-1994, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. [DIOC], emerged from Prosopis alba [branches girdled by Oncideres germari].
Note: Viana & Williner (1978) mentioned this species as cited from Tucumán and Santiago del Estero by Bruch, but Bruch (1914) did not treat this species.
description: Published as part of Zubarán, Gastón E. & Di Iorio, Osvaldo R., 2018, The family Passandridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) in Argentina with comments on species from Brazil and Paraguay, pp. 471-497 in Zootaxa 4425 (3) on page 480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1270355