Plastocerus angulosus (Germar, 1844) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae): an enigmatic click beetle with a convoluted taxonomic history

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5284.2.3" target="_blank" >https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5284.2.3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5284.2.3" target="_blank" >10.11646/zootaxa.5284.2.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Plastocerus angulosus (Germar, 1844) (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae): an enigmatic click beetle with a convoluted taxonomic history

Original language description

Plastocerus angulosus (Germar, 1844) is one of the only two species of genus Plastocerus Schaum, 1852 within the monogeneric click beetle tribe Plastocerini. It is distributed in the area comprising Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon (first record for Lebanon published here). Due to the slightly modified morphology of P. angulosus, this taxon has a convoluted taxonomic history and was earlier classified in various families and even superfamilies. However, recent phylogenies place it in Elateridae: Dendrometrinae. In this study, we review the morphology, intraspecific morphological and genetic variability, sexual dimorphism, systematics, bibliography, and distribution of P. angulosus. Our results show rather low morphological and relatively high genetic variability in this species. Females, which are larger than males and differ mainly in the antennae and abdominal ventrites, are not so rare as previously thought. Further field research should focus on the discovery of immature stages to describe their morphology and understand their biology and ecology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zootaxa

ISSN

1175-5326

e-ISSN

1175-5334

Volume of the periodical

5284

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

271-290

UT code for WoS article

000995734600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162796443