Redescription of the African genus Poecilomorpha Hope, 1814 (Megalopodidae: Megalopodinae) and description of a new species

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M. (2025): Redescription of the African genus Poecilomorpha Hope, 1814 (Megalopodidae: Megalopodinae) and description of a new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 987: 264-280, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.987.2865, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2865/13013 Abstract.

Three species of the genus Poecilomorpha Hope, 1841, P. passerinii Hope, 1841 (type species), P. minuta (Pic, 1951) and P. cribricollis (Pic, 1951) are redescribed, and a new species P. pseudocribricollis sp. nov. is described. Illustrations of the habitus, aedeagus and spermatheca of all four taxa are provided. The following new combinations are proposed: Leucastea apicalis (Pic, 1951), L. atricornis (Pic, 1951), L. curta (Pic, 1951), L. fasciaticeps (Pic, 1951), L. immaculatipes (Pic, 1951), L.impressipennis (Pic, 1951), L. laticornis (Pic, 1951), L. nigroapicalis (Pic, 1951), L. nigromaculata (Pic, 1951), L. overlaeti (Pic, 1951), L. testaceipennis (Pic, 1917), L. trimaculata (Pic, 1951), L. usambarica (Weise, 1902), Sphondylia diversipes (Pic, 1951), S. trilineata (Erber & Medvedev, 2002), S. gravastella (Péringuey 1908), Macrolopha aurovillosa (Jacoby, 1894) and Monrosolopha tarsata (Bryant, 1941).