Neatus tenebrioides ( Palisot de Beauvois, 1812 )

Soldati, Fabien, Leo, Piero, Jansson, Nicklas, Avci, Mustafa, Coşkun, Mustafa & Kayiş, Tamer, 2025, A new species of the genus Neatus J. L. Leconte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrionini) from Türkiye, with new country records and a key to holarctic species, Zootaxa 5659 (2), pp. 179-190 : 187

Neatus tenebrioides ( Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)

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Type locality: “ Caroline du Sud ”, described from the South Carolina State in the USA ( Palisot de Beauvois 1812).

Studied material. Canada.— Québec, Eardley K. 13, 19-V-1996, V. Maly & S. Laplante , 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ ( FS) . USA.— Illinois, Chicago, Palos Park , 13-V-1950, J. B. Hayes, 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ( FS, PL) . Iowa, Cedar Bluff , 05-VI-1958, J. R. Powers, 1 ♂, coll. P. Ardoin ( MNHN) . Michigan, Douglas Lake biological station, 09-VII-1962, 1 ♂, coll. P. Ardoin ( MNHN) . Michigan, Macomb County, E of Memphis , 07-V-1963, IV-1966, 21-III-1968, C. Brivio, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ coll. P. Ardoin ( MNHN) .

Geographical distribution: Widely distributed in North America, cited from 39 states of the USA and 6 provinces of Canada ( Bousquet et al. 2018).

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Habitus (♂). 1: Neatus noctivagus (15.5 mm). 2: N. picipes (14 mm). 3: N. subaequalis (15 mm). 4: N. tenebrioides (11.5 mm). 5: N. turcicus (15.5 mm). 6: N. ventralis (15 mm). Habitus lengths are given in brackets.