taxonID	type	description	language	source
903023785D46FFED52B42FBAC175D0B5.taxon	type_taxon	Type Species. Opatrum hirtulum Baudi di Selve, 1876, by original designation.	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D46FFED52B42FBAC175D0B5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Clypeus deeply emarginate; eyes not completely divided; third antennomere short (less than two times as long as second); pronotal disc evenly convex; elytral striae with large foveate punctures; elytral intervals carinate, with one row of tubercles; wings fully developed; abdominal ventrites flat; aedeagus simple. The genus belongs to the tribe Opatrini, as shown by the excised clypeus, antennae without complex sensoria, labrum subquadrate with tormal arms mesally bent into long extensions (Fig. 9), laciniae uncinate, protrochanters of opatrinoid type sensu Iwan (2004), protibiae fossorial (although not strongly so) (Fig. 6), and ovipositor shortened (Fig. 14). It belongs to the subtribe Opatrina as evidenced by a female tract without a bursa copulatrix, with a single tubular spermatheca attached to the anterior end of the vagina (Fig. 14), and simple (not tripartite) aedeagus. The aedeagus (Figs. 12, 13) appears to have a normal apical piece of joined parameres as in most Tenebrionidae, but these are actually pseudoparameres sensu Iwan (2004), consisting of fused original parameres plus the laciniae (clavae). Scleropatroides can be separated from the other Australian Opatrini by using the key to the genera of Opatrina in Matthews and Bouchard (2008), where it appears under the erroneous name Mesomorphus darwini (Blackburn). The latter is in fact a valid species of Mesomorphus Miedel, 1880, as shown by Ferrer (2008).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	description	(Figs. 2 – 15)	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	materials_examined	Type Material. Holotype ♀: S. AUST. 1 km N White Bull Yard Kalamurina Stn 27 ° 52 ′ 23 ″ S 137 ° 54 ′ 40 ″ E 2 – 8 Oct. 1999 pitfalls Warburton R. WHC exped. Paratypes: Same data as holotype (2 ♀♀ SAMA, 1 ♀ MIZ). S. Aust. New Alton Downs Stn 8.75 km SE New Alton Downs 26 ° 34 ′ 05 ″ S 139 ° 15 ′ 03 ″ E pitfalls Nov. 1993 Goyders Lagoon surv. AW 08 (1 ♂ SAMA); S. AUST nr L Toontoowaranie Innamincka Regional Res. Pitalls lignum 5 – 6 May 1998 27 ° 04 ′ 20 ″ S 140 ° 09 ′ 44 ″ E JA Forrest. WHClub (1 ♂ MIZ); S. AUST. Yelpawaralinna W. H. on Warburton Ck 27 ° 7 S 138 ° 42 E water trap under Malaise trap 22 – 25 Nov. 1993 J. A. Forrest, D. Hirst (1 ♂ SAMA); S. AUST. Hamilton Stn 5 km NNW Mt Barr 26 ° 16 ′ 32 ″ S 134 ° 55 ′ 11 ″ E 06 – 08 May 2005. Pit trap Arid Rivers Svy, ERI 00201 (1 ♀ SAMA).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	description	Description. Oblong, subparallel, moderately convex, surfaces coarsely punctate with dense vestiture of long, curved, semirecumbent, squamiform setae. Total length 4.6 – 5.2 mm; maximum width of pronotum 1.8 – 2.0 mm; width of elyra at humeri 1.7 – 2.0 mm. Head: Clypeus deeply, arcuately emarginate (Fig. 7); clypeo-genal suture not evident; eyes entire, reniform; antennae short, not reaching base of pronotum; labrum subquadrate (Fig. 9); mandibles short, stout; maxilla (Fig. 10) with broadly securiform terminal palpomere, a long macroseta emerging from palpifer, not always present, and a single long uncus on lacinia; labium (Fig. 11) with mentum about as long as maximum width, narrowest at base, not carinate, apical labial palpomeres cultriform. Prothorax: Ratio of width to length 7: 5; anterior angles acute; lateral edges denticulate, convex, sinuate towards posterior angles, which are acute; base medially strongly convex, projecting posterad well beyond level of posterior angles; prosternal process slightly expanding apically. Pterothorax: Hind body subparallel, ratio of length to width 10: 8; elytral striae with large, closely set, foveate punctures, interstriae with a single row of large, setigerous tubercles each bearing a long semirecumbent squamiform curved seta; hind wings fully developed. Legs: Protrochanters of derived opatrinoid type, without distinct process of trochanter base; protibiae moderately widened apically, with single dentate outer apical angle, outer edge denticulate without prominent teeth. Abdomen: Ventrites flat, without depressions; defensive gland reservoirs elongate, widely separated without common volume (not joined at their bases); ovipositor and female tract as in Fig. 14; aedeagus (Figs. 12, 13) simple. No sexual dimorphism.	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The areas in which S. triplehorni was found are flood plains of a usually dry braidedstream and small-lake system which includes the Warburton River and Cooper Creek, and which in turn is fed by the Diamantina and Barcoo rivers flowing in from Queensland (Fig. 15). The area as a whole is an overlap zone between two of the 89 recognized biogeographic regions of Australia (partial map at left in Fig. 15): the Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) and the Channel Country (CHC). These are the lowest-rainfall areas on the Australian continent, with (very erratic) average annual rainfall of 125 mm and 168 mm, respectively. However, the Channel Country also receives floodwaters from the slow-flowing rivers which originate in mountain ranges far to the east in Queensland. These flows are also erratic and subject to very high evaporation rates and percolation into the porous soil, hence they rarely reach their destination of Lake Eyre. The relatively moist soils lining the channels give rise to denser vegetation there. It is in these overflow areas that Scleropatroides was collected. Given this fact, it is more likely that the whole range of S. triplehorni extends north-eastward into the Channel Country of Queensland, rather than northward into the dunefields of the Northern Territory. The vegetation of the type locality (Fig. 15) is described as Eucalyptus coolabah Blakely and Jacobs / Acacia salicina Lindl (coolabah / cooba or Broughton willow) low open woodland over Duma florulenta (Meisn.) T. M. Schust (lignum) and Epaltes cunninghamii (Hook.) Benth. (tall nut-heads) (P. Lang, personal communication 2015). Other plants mentioned in the data attached to the labels are Acacia stenophylla A. Cunn. ex Benth. (river cooba), Eragrostis sp. (a cane grass), and Cyperus victoriensis C. B. Clarke (yelka).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	discussion	Discussion. The new species resembles Scleropatroides strigatus (Fabricius, 1798) but differs notably in the shape of the convex hind edge of the pronotum, which in the latter species is produced medially to a level only about equal to that of the hind angles, whereas in S. triplehorni this edge projects much further posteriorad. The lateral edges before the hind angles are more sinuate in S. triplehorni. The elytral humeri are rectangular in S. strigatus and obtuse in S. triplehorni. Scleropatroides strigatus occurs widely in the Oriental Region (see Appendix I) with Thailand as the nearest area, which is also as near to Australia as the whole genus was previously known to occur. The wide gap in distribution across Indonesia is probably artificial, resulting from an inadequate collecting effort there.	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D47FFE952EE28D4C310D35A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The authors are pleased to dedicate this species to the distinguished tenebrionidist Charles A. (Chuck) Triplehorn on the occasion of his 88 th birthday.	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D40FFEA52BF297FC181D6CE.taxon	description	Asia (W India). Polycoelogastridion decellei Ardoin, 1969 Africa (Ivory Coast, Chad). Polycoelogastridion octocostatum (Fairmaire, 1863) Asia (Cambodia, Thailand (Bangkok), Indonesia (Bali, Lombok Island )). Polycoelogastridion sexcostatum (Motschulsky, 1858) Europe (Azerbaijan, Greece), Asia (Syria, Turkey). Polycoelogastridion tenuipes Kaszab, 1942 Asia (SE India). Polycoelogastridion vinciguerrae (Gridelli, 1930) North Africa (Libya).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D40FFEA509E2B4AC023D6CE.taxon	description	Scleropatroides gallagheri (Ferrer, 2000) Asia (Oman). Scleropatroides girardi (Ferrer, 2000), new combination Africa (Kenya). Scleropatroides gustafssoni (Ferrer, 2000), new combination Africa (Burkina Faso). Scleropatroides hirtulus (Baudi de Selve, 1876) Europe (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern European Russia), Asia (Afghanistan, Egypt-Sinai, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). Scleropatroides patrizii (Gridelli, 1945) Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia). Scleropatroides seidlitzi (Reitter, 1898) Europe (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern European Russia), Asia (Afghanistan, China-Gansu, China – Inner Mongolia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). Scleropatroides somalicus (Ferrer, 1995) Africa (Somalia). Scleropatroides strigatus (Fabricius, 1798) Asia (Oman, SE India, Sri Lanka, Thailand). Scleropatroides triplehorni Iwan and Matthews, new species Australia. Scleropatroides turanicus (Reitter, 1904) Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
903023785D40FFEA536F2AD5C68AD168.taxon	description	Scleropatrum carinatum relictum (Skopin, 1964) Asia (Kazakhstan). Scleropatrum csikii (Kaszab, 1967) Asia (China-Gansu, China-Xinjiang) Scleropatrum elongatum (Guérin-Méneville, 1834) Asia (China-Hainan), N India, Kazakhstan. Scleropatrum horridum horridum Reitter, 1898 Asia (China-Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang). Scleropatrum horridum humeralis (Skopin, 1963) Asia (Mongolia). Scleropatrum mongolicum (Kaszab, 1967) Asia (Mongolia). Scleropatrum prescottii (Faldermann, 1833) Asia (China-Inner Mongolia, China-Xinjiang, Mongolia, Russia-East Siberia-Tuva) Scleropatrum tuberculatum Reitter, 1887 Asia (China-Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang). Scleropatrum tuberculiferum Reitter, 1890 Asia (China: Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia).	en	Iwan, Dariusz, Matthews, Eric G. (2015): Scleropatroides Löbl and Merkl (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Opatrini) Discovered in Australia, with Description of a New Species and Discussion of Related Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69: 115-121, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.115
