Description of Males of Ptychoderes brevis and Ptychoderes jekeli, with a Cladistical Reanalysis of Ptychoderes (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)

J. R. M. Mermudes; Ingrid Mattos

DOI:10.1603/AN10016

Corpus ID: 86502143

Description of Males of Ptychoderes brevis and Ptychoderes jekeli, with a Cladistical Reanalysis of Ptychoderes (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)

@inproceedings{Mermudes2010DescriptionOM,
  title={Description of Males of Ptychoderes brevis and Ptychoderes jekeli, with a Cladistical Reanalysis of Ptychoderes (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)},
  author={J. R. M. Mermudes and Ingrid Mattos},
  year={2010}
}

J. R. M. Mermudes, Ingrid Mattos

Published 2010

Biology

ABSTRACT A recent study of the material housed in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) provided new information to describe and illustrate the males of Ptychoderes brevis Jordan and Ptychoderes jekeli Mermudes & Napp (Coleoptera; Anthribidae). These males were previously unknown, and their characters had never been studied by the cladistical method. A reanalysis of the genus was carried out, which included 50 characters and 24 taxa (seven as outgroup). The resulting single… CONTINUE READING

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