Eustrophopsis Champion 1889
Creators: name: Pollock, Darren
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tetratomidae
Eustrophopsis

description: <i>Eustrophopsis</i> Champion, 1889 <i>Eustrophopsis</i> Champion, 1889: 77.— Type species: <i>Orchesia quindecimmaculatus</i> Laporte, 1840; Champion, 1915: 138; Champion, 1916: 1, 138; Csiki, 1924: 7; Blackwelder, 1945: 494; Nikitsky, 1998: 58; Young and Pollock, 2002: 416. <i>Eustrophinus</i> Seidlitz, 1898: 438, 440.— Type species: <i>Mycetophagus bicolor</i> Fabricius, 1798; Champion, 1916: 3; Leng, 1920: 238; Leng and Mutchler, 1933: 36; Csiki, 1924: 8; Blackwelder, 1945: 495; Hatch, 1965: 66; Poole and Gentili, 1996: 299; LeSage, 1991: 246; Nikitsky, 1998: 58; Young and Pollock, 2002: 416. <i>Eustrophus</i> Champion, 1889: 75, nec. Illiger, 1802. Champion (1889) erected <i>Eustrophopsis</i> to include species of “Eustrophi” that exhibited a deeply emarginate prosternal process to receive a sharply keeled mesosternum. Seidlitz (1898) included in <i>Eustrophinus</i>, species that lacked this emarginate prosternal process and keeled mesosternum. However, according to Nikitsky (1998), who has studied this group extensively, these characters exhibit a graded transition without a distinct morphological gap. Th erefore, he sunk the name <i>Eustrophinus</i> as a junior synonym of <i>Eustrophopsis</i> Champion. <i>Eustrophopsis</i> is the most diverse genus of Eustrophinae, with approximately 55 species known from Afrotropical, Neotropical and Nearctic regions. Nikitsky (1998: 58) stated that it is “remarkable that <i>Eustrophopsis</i> seems to be absent both from the Oriental Region and Palearctic. It may be so that it is replaced there by species of the genera <i>Holostrophus</i> and <i>Synstrophus</i> unknown from the Neotropical and Afrotropical regions”.
description: Published as part of <i>Pollock, Darren, 2008, Review of the Canadian Eustrophinae (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae), pp. 261-290 in ZooKeys 2 (2)</i> on pages 276-277, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.30, http://zenodo.org/record/576400
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