Abacetini
Kipling Will
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Abacetini is a group of probably more than 500 species for which there is little modern synthesis or taxonomic revision. These beetles are distributed throughout Africa and into southern Europe, across tropical and subtropical Asia and into the Pacific as far as northern Australia.
Characteristics
A broad set of taxa have been informally associated with Abacetus based on the combination of the lack of the angular base of stria 1; a single pair of deeply impressed, linear basal impressions of the pronotum; a single or no dorsal puncture on the third elytral interval; the basal elytral puncture at or near stria two and males with symmetrically expanded protarsomeres. Additionally, nearly all of these taxa have deeply impressed, elongate frontal impressions on the head; sinuate anterior coxal sulcus and coiled spermatheca. The most obvious characteristic and likely synapomorphy for a possibly derived clade (Abacetini s.str.) is the eccentrically inserted second antennomere and, perhaps, the strongly transverse mentum. The mentum form, however, is somewhat variable. DNA sequence data also supports this clade based on a selected set of exemplars and several gene loci (K. Will unpublished).
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Abacetus sp |
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| Location | Vietnam |
| Specimen Condition | Dead Specimen |
| Identified By | K.Will |
| Life Cycle Stage | Adult |
| Body Part | Habitus |
| View | Dorsal |
| Collection | AMNH |
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| Scientific Name | Celioinkosa kivuana |
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| Life Cycle Stage | Adult |
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Kipling Will
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- First online 07 July 2006
- Content changed 21 October 2006
Citing this page:
Will, Kipling. 2006. Abacetini. Version 21 October 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Abacetini/51300/2006.10.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
