Homalocerus antennalis Hustache, 1940

Mermudes, José Ricardo M., 2025, On the rare species of Dicordylus Lacordaire and Homalocerus Schoenherr (Coleoptera, Belidae) with notes on male terminalia of D. vanini Mermudes, Zootaxa 5646 (1), pp. 144-150 : 148-149

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5646.1.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15818736
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scientific name	Homalocerus antennalis Hustache, 1940
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Homalocerus antennalis Hustache, 1940 View in CoL

Material examined. BRAZIL. Rio Grande do Sul. S. Salvador, 30.X.1960, without leg. ( MAPA) .

Remarks. Vanin (1976) stated that H. antennalis is the only species characterized by antennomere XI with an elongate length, almost as long as the three preceding antennomeres together. The species was previously known only from the type locality Água Preta (now Uruçuca), State of Bahia. However, Vanin (1976) studied a male and a female from the state of Santa Catarina, municipality of Joinville (10 m elevation). Based on the material from this important collection in Porto Alegre (MAPA), the distribution of the species reaches the state of Rio Grande do Sul and helps to confirm the Atlantic Forest biome for this species at low elevation, unlike Homalocerus lyciformis .