New species of Mutillid Mimicking Enoclerus Gahan (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae) from Mexico and Central America

Abstract

Six new species of Enoclerus are described: E. delusus n. sp. from Costa Rica and Panamá, E. incanus n. sp. from México, E. zip n. sp. from México and El Salvador, E. reductesignatus n. sp. from Panamá, and E. citrinifrons n. sp. and E. philogenes n. sp. from Costa Rica. The new species are hypothesized to participate in a Batesian mimicry complex with boldly marked diurnal mutillid wasps as their model. Enoclerus crabronarius var. deletus Wolcott is elevated to species rank as E. deletus Wolcott new status. The identity of E. crabronarius is discussed.

A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Tillinae Leach sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cleridae) in the New World

“…Interspecific variation in integument color and fasciae arrangement is a very common condition among numerous clerid species, and various descriptive works (Wolcott 1909, 1921, Rifkind 1993b, Leavengood 2008, Rifkind et al 2010Burke 2013, Burke and Zolnerowich 2014, 2015 have shown that abdominal and aedeagal differences are the most reliable morphological characters used for delineating interspecific boundaries within Cleridae. Barr (1978) described Bogcia disjuncta and B. oaxacae from the Pacific coast of Mexico, designating B. disjuncta as the type species.…”

Taxonomy of the New World checkered beetle genusAkonesisOpitz (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Peloniinae)

“…Elytral infraspecific variation in colour patterns abounds in genera such as Trichodes Herbst (Foster 1976), Perilypus Spinola (Ekis 1977), Eurymetopum Blanchard (Solervicens 1986), and Agnatis Opitz (Opitz 2014a). Conversely, slight differences in elytral colour patterns are species specific in Aulicus Spinola (Barr and Foster 1979), Madoniella Pic (Opitz 2011), Enoclerus Gahan (Rifkind 2017), and Plocamocera Spinola (Opitz 2004). Recently acquired information about aedeagal morphology confirms that species of Akonesis fall into the last-mentioned group of genera.…”

First record of Necrobia rufipes (De Geer, 1775) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from Khuzestan Province, southwest of Iran, a beetle species of forensic importance

“…They are predators and feed on other insects in the adult and larval stages [6]. The legs are unique (tarsal formula is 5-5-5) and front coxae exposes the second segment of the legs known as the trochanter [7]. The Cleridae family are predators of insects that live in animal excrement, carrion and vegetable material [8,9].…”