Opselater
| Opselater | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Subfamily: | Agrypninae |
| Tribe: | Pyrophorini |
| Genus: | Opselater Costa, 1975 |
| Type species | |
| Elater pyrophanus[1] Illiger, 1807
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| Species | |
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8; see text | |
Opselater is a genus of click beetle (family Elateridae). They are one of several genera in the tribe Pyrophorini, all of which are bioluminescent.[2] This genus was established by Cleide Costa in 1975.[1] After a revision of the genus by Simone Policena Rosa,[3] she stated some members of this genus are polyphyletic with Lygelater bifossulatus (Candèze, 1865), which discouraged her from establishing any new genus in this part of Pyrophorini due to alternative resolutions and ambiguity.[4]
Description
[edit]Small; dark-brown. Pubescence short, dense yellowish or grey. Eyes in males slightly more developed than in females. Front prominent. Antennae reaching the hind angles of the prothorax, serrate from fourth segment onwards; third segment little longer than second, the two together of the same length of the fourth. Prothorax slightly convex, punctures variable. Luminous spots small, lateral, flat and visible also in the proepisternum. Mesosternal cavity sinusoidal and a little raised behind. Metacoxal plates little enlarged inwardly. Abdominal luminous organ small and lamellate. Elytral sides subparallel and rounded to apices. Male genitalia: median lobe very enlarged at the middle, with or without minute cuticular scales. Female genitalia: bursa copulatrix more or less spiraled, with long spines; accessory glands well developed; spermatheca well developed and median oviduct with sclerotized plates.[1]
Range
[edit]Opselater is mainly distributed in the Atlantic forest and some species are apparently disjunct.[5]
List of species
[edit]The following 8 species are recognized by Rosa (2004) (with each type locality given):
- Opselater costae Rosa, 2004 - Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Opselater hebes (Germar, 1841) - São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Opselater helvolus (Germar, 1841) - Bahia, Brazil
- Opselater lucens (Illiger, 1807) - Bahia, Brazil
- Opselater melanurus (Candèze, 1863) - Cayenne, French Guiana
- Opselater pyrophanus (Illiger, 1807) - Bahia, Brazil
- Opselater quadraticollis (Blanchard, 1843) - Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
- Opselater succinus Costa, 1980 - Bahia, Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Costa (1975:103–104).
- ^ Costa (1975:81).
- ^ Rosa (2004).
- ^ Rosa, S.P. (2007). Análise Filogenetica e Revisão Taxonômica da tribo Pyrophorini Candèze, 1863 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae) (Doctor of Zoology thesis) (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo. pp. 158 & 195–196 of xii + 241. doi:10.11606/T.41.2007.tde-04092007-174412.
- ^ Costa (1975:94).
- Costa, C. (1975). "Systematics and evolution of the tribes Pyrophorini and Heligmini, with description of Campyloxeninae, new subfamily (Coleoptera, Elateridae)". Arquivos de Zoologia. 26 (2): 49–190. doi:10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v26i2p49-190.
This article incorporates text by Cleide Costa available under the CC BY 4.0 license. - Rosa, S.P. (2004). "Revisão do gênero Opselater Costa (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (in Portuguese). 48 (2): 203–219. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262004000200008.
External links
[edit]- Opselater Costa, 1975. Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 13 October 2024.