Revision of Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 and descriptions of New Acroleptina taxa (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calopterini)

ABSTRACT

The Neotropical lycid genus Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 is revised and illustrations of diagnostic characters, geographic distribution maps and an identification key to the species are presented. Acroleptus chevrolati Bourgeois, 1886 is redescribed and a lectotype and a paralectotype are designated; two new species are described for the genus: Acroleptus alvarengai new species and Acroleptus limai new species. Two Aporrhipis Pascoe, 1887 species are described: Aporrhipis obrieni new species and Aporrhipis milleri new species and a key and geographic distribution map to the species of the genus are provided. Acroleptus costae Ferreira, 2015 is moved to the genus Paracroleptus new genus, a new genus erected to accommodate Paracroleptus costae (Ferreira, 2015) new combination.

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KEYWORDS:

• Leptolycini
• Neotropical region
• neoteny
• elateroidea
• paedomorphosis

Acknowledgements

Richard S. Miller’s generous donation of his collection to the Montana Entomology Collection (MTEC) was critical to this project. I am very thankful to Erich L. Spiessberger (MTEC) and Oliver Keller (University of Florida) for comments and advice during the development of this study and for their comments pre-submission; I am grateful to the respective curators and collections managers of each collection who provided material for this study. I am very grateful to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) of Brazil for the scholarship (process 202559/2015-7) that allowed me to continue the study of the Lycidae and to the Idea Wild Project for providing resources that allowed the acquisition of the photographic equipment used in this project.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [process 202559/2015-7].