A revision of the genus Pilipalpus (Coleoptera, Anthicidae: Pedilinae).

Abstract

The Chilean genus Pilipalpus Fairmaire, 1876, formerly placed in Pyrochroidae, Oedemeridae, and Anthicidae (Anthicinae) by different authorities has now been placed in Anthicidae (Pedilinae) in a new tribe Pilipalpini related to the Holarctic tribe Pedilini but differing in characters of eyes, tempora, maxillary palpi, and aedeagus. A key to the tribes of Pedilinae (Pedilini, Pilipalpini, Eurygeniini, and Macratriini) is given. Besides the redescription of the type of the genus (dasytoides Fairmaire), a new species (darwini n. sp.) named in honour of the collector, the great naturalist Charles Darwin, has been described from Chiloe Island, Chile.

Nomenclatural Acts

darwini Abdullah, 1964 (Pilipalpus), spec. n.