Description of a potential new species of Adelopsis (Leiodidade: Cholevinae: Ptomaphagini) from São Paulo State and elaboration of a genus catalog

• Grant number: 18/05164-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2018
• End date: June 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Gnaspini Netto
• Grantee: Eduardo Coutinho Gomyde
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A potential new species of Adelopsis will be described and compared with the other described species of this genus, being possibly the first species of Adelopsis described to Brazil in more than a decade. Its internal and external morphology details, including male and female genitalia will be described, analyzed, illustrated and compared with the other Adelopsis. The knowledge about this genus diversity in Brazil is still restricted, with few publications about its taxonomy in last years. A catalog with the described species of Adelopsis (currently, 78 nominal species) will be made providing an overview of its known diversity. The catalog will provide information on each species described characteristics, descriptions authorship, year of publication, besides eventual classifications in groups and subgenus, illustrations and locality of holotypes, paratypes and other types, providing a support to the development of this project and collaborating with further researches with the genus Adelopsis, for example, the taxonomic revision.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GNASPINI, PEDRO; GOMYDE, EDUARDO C.; ANTUNES-CARVALHO, CAIO. The `twins' and the `bachelor', new potential synapomorphies inside the Cholevinae (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 193, n. 1, p. 78-94, SEP 2021. (13/06314-7, 18/05164-5)

GOMYDE, EDUARDO C.; GNASPINI, PEDRO. Adelopsis diabolica, a new species of Ptomaphagini (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Zootaxa, v. 4658, n. 1, p. 175-182, AUG 21 2019. (13/06314-7, 18/05164-5)