Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Kirejtshuk, A. G.: Notes on the systematics of the African Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)

Colopterus ERICHSON, 1842 is also included the subsequent key because some specimens belonging to this genus have been captured in Gabon (MRAC), probably accidentally introduced by man. In the description of the subfamily Cillaeinae (KIREJTSHUK 1986/?), the genus Idosoronia SCHAUFUSS, 1891 was missing from the subfamily, and the genus CarpophUops GROUVELLE, 1898 was regarded as incertae sedis. Indeed the only species of the genus with the last name according to the personal communication with J. JELÍNEK seems to be synonymous with the american species included by MURRAY in LiparopeplusMURRAY, 1864. However, MURRAY (1864) included in the latter "subgenus" 2 species, one from Brazil and another from Nigeria, which are similar to one another, but belong to certainly different genera. To keep both names valid the author designates the African species as the type species of Liparopeplus. Some taxa of the subfamily should obtain a rank different from original and this changes is reflected in the below key, but Cilaeopsis GROUVELLE, 1899 is provisionarily considered as a subgenus of Cillaeus because the author of the original publication could not find any character to distinguish species placed by GROUVELLE in both taxa [C. (C.) kraatzi GROUVELLE, 1899 and C. (C.) nitidulus GROUVELLE, 1899 remain unknown to the author]. At the same time the genus Ecnomaeus ERICHSON, 1843 was sometimes regarded in the composition of the subfamily Cillaeinae (KIREJTSHUK 1998/? and so on), however, it should be transfered into the tribe Epuraeini of the subfamily Epuraeinae because all peculiarities of it correspond with characteristic of the latter subfamily, including structure of genitalia in both sexes, except very short elytra, which are rather common among members of the subfamily Cillaeinae. GROUVELLE (1915b) described "Brachypeplus tachinoides", which according to the original description seems to be a member of the subfamily Maynipeplinae, but different from Maynipeplus lomechusoides KIREJTSHUK, 1998<2 in many characters, including in much wider head, 11-segmented antennae, shape of pronotum, proportion between length of ventrites (ventrites 1 and 2 somewhat shorter than following) and so on. PARSONS (1943) designated B. planus as type-species for Brachypeplus ERICHSON, 1842, which was included by MURRAY (1864) in the subgenus Tasmus MURRAY, 1864. Fortunately, the groups regarded by them as Brachypeplus and Tasmus can be united in one group with a taxon of subgeneric rank.