Paul E. Skelley

Description of a New Species of Scarites Fabricius (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Florida

ABSTRACT n We describe a new species in the genus Scarites Fabricius, S. stenops Bousquet and Skelley, from one specimen collected in Florida. The adult differs from those of other Nearctic species by the very small, flat eyes, the extensive pustulate area at the elytral base, and the markedly convex elytral interval 7 behind the humerus. Scarites texanus Chaudoir is here synonymized under S. subterraneus Fabricius, new synonymy, validating the synonymy proposed in an earlier unpublished work, and Scarites vicinus Chaudoir, previously considered a junior synonym of S. quadriceps Chaudoir, is revalidated [revised status]. We include an updated key to all known Scarites species found in North America, north of Mexico.

Cycadophila, a new genus (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas debaoensis (Cycadaceae) in Asia.

Asian species assigned to Pharaxonotha Reitter formed a separate clade from New World species of the genus and are distinguished on the basis of morphology and analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences. Cycadophila, new genus, is described based on a consideration of four Asian species in comparison with New World Pharaxonotha. This new genus includes two new species (Cycadophila debaonica new species and Cycadophila fupingensis new species) and two previously described species (Cycadophila nigra (Gorham) new combination and Cycadophila yunnanensis (Grouvelle) new combination). These latter two may represent species complexes. Lectotypes are designated for Thallis nigra Gorham and Pharaxonotha yunnanensis Grouvelle. Larvae of C. debaonica and C. fupingensis are described based on individuals collected on the cones of Cycas debaoensis Y. C. Zhong & C. J. Chen (Cycadaceae), a cycad native to Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, China.

Description of the Larva of Homophileurus integer (Burmeister, 1847) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini), with Notes on Biology and a Key to the Known Larvae of New World Phileurini

ABSTRACT The larva of Homophileurus integer (Burmeister, 1847) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Phileurini) is described for the first time and accompanied by notes on its biology based on specimens from Suriname. An updated key to the known third-stage larvae of American Phileurini is provided.

Review of some New World aphodiine genera and descriptions of new species [Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae]

The New World eupariine scarab genera Euparixoides HINTON and Iguazua STEBNICKA are reviewed. Saprosites blackwelderi CHAPIN, is transferred to the genus Iguazua becoming Iguazua blackwelderi (CHAPIN), new combination. Keys for species of the genera Euparixoides, Iguazua, and Lomanoxoides STEBNICKA are presented. New species described are: (Eupariini) Euparixoides papilio, Euparixoides araguaensis, Euparixoides tachirensis, Lomanoxoides mapitunari, Lomanoxoides herediae, Iguazua costaricensis, Auperia waoraniae, Auperia tectipennis, Auperia viejoae, and (Didactylini) Aidophus coheni.

Description of two new species of Clivina Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini) from southeastern United States

Abstract Two new species of the genus Clivina Latreille are described. One, Clivina choatei Bousquet & Skelley, belongs to the nominotypical subgenus and is known from six specimens collected in northern Florida. The species is structurally similar to Clivina myops Bousquet, known only from the holotype found in North Carolina, but differs among others by its smaller size and wider elytral striae. The second species, Clivina alabama Bousquet, belongs to the subgenus Antroforceps Barr and is known from two specimens collected in north-central Alabama. The species is structurally most similar to Clivina sasajii Ball, known only from Latimer County in Oklahoma, but differs among others in the absence of eyes and in having the pronotum and elytra proportionally wider.

OBITUARY AND DEDICATION: Karl Heinz Stephan 1931–2005

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Karl Heinz Stephan, from the small town of Red Oak in Latimer County, Oklahoma, who passed away in June 2005 of an apparent heart attack. Almost everyone active in Coleoptera taxonomy in North America and many in other parts of the world knew of Karl as an extraordinary beetle collector, naturalist, and author of a number of important beetle monographs. Karl was born 15 May 1931 in what would become East Germany. He and his family suffered through the Second World War intact and immigrated to Windsor, Ontario in 1952. Karl’s early life, the family’s experiences as immigrants in Canada, and much of Karl’s adult biography were documented by Howard Weems (Weems 1989) in a forward to Karl’s colydiid and bothriderid monograph. Suffice it to say that Karl had a keen interest in natural history and coleopterology from an early age, and he pursued the latter with unabated passion until his untimely death. Karl’s career path was in engineering. His work on beetles was heavily influenced by that background and by his talents as a resourceful and practical problem solver. He was quite possibly the most skilled beetle collector of modern times. Though he Karl, November 1990, demonstrating the latest in sifter technology (photo, H. W. Robison). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 59(3):277–283. 2005.