Belohina
Belohina inexpectata is so far the only species of the beetle family of Belohinidae described.
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Features
Beetle
The beetles have a body length of 14 to 16 millimeters. Your body is strongly convex and glabrous. The head is not completely hidden when viewed from above by pronotum. The compound eyes have no canthus. The membranous labrum is concealed beneath the face plate ( clypeus ). The sensor bases are covered from above. The sensors are zehngliedrig and have a tripartite cup-shaped ( cupuliforme ) mace. The mandibles are short and wide and have a single peak. You are mesially curved and have no Mola. At the maxillae the Galea and lacinia are clearly developed. The indentations of the hips ( coxae ) of the front legs are open on the inside. The leg rings ( trochanter ) are obscured, or missing. The rails ( tibiae ) of the front legs have one or more distinct teeth or praise. Are located on the rails of the middle legs in front of the apex oblique grooves or ridges. The tag ( scutellum ) is well developed. The hind wings are sharply formed or missing. It formed six visible sternites on the abdomen. The second is a lateral sternite and is covered, or only partially visible. The Tracheenöffnungen formed in the first to eighth segment on Pleuralmembranen. The aedeagus of the male is symmetrical and has two praise.
Dissemination and lifestyle
The bugs are so far known only from the type series from the south of Madagascar, which was collected in March. The way of life of the animals as well as the larvae unknown.
Taxonomy and systematics
Adrien Maurice Renaud Paulian described the genus Belohina originally within the scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae ) and placed it in its own subfamily, which should be closely related to the Aphodiinae. However, he realized even then similarities in the structure of the aedeagus in comparison to the dung beetles ( Geotrupidae ). Later he put the group into its own family.