Kipling Will, G.B. Monteith. 2018.
A MULTI-LOCUS PHYLOGENY, TAXONOMIC REVIEW AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN NURUS (SENSU STRICTO) MOTSCHULSKY, 1865 (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE: PTEROSTICHINI).
Australian Entomologist, 2018, 45 (4): 353-388.
Corresponding author - Kipling Will: Essig Museum of Entomology, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, #4780, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, USA (Email:kipwill@berkeley.edu)
Abstract
The genus Nurus Motschulsky, subgenus Nurus s. str., is revised, with three new species: Nurus
moorei sp. n., from southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, N. popplei sp. n.
from near Torrington, New South Wales and N. baehri sp. n. from the Ebor region of New South
Wales. Nurus perater (Sloane, 1923), comb. n., originally described in Trichosternus Chaudoir,
is redescribed. Redescriptions for the remaining four species in Nurus s. str., distribution maps
and a key to species are given. Lectotypes are designated for N. perater, N. latipennis (Sloane)
and N. imperialis (Sloane).
Cladistic analysis of a combined matrix of partial sequences from
three loci: 28S, COI and CAD, found support for the inclusion of Trichosternus perater Sloane
in Nurus s. str. and the reciprocal monophyly of all populations represented for recognized
species with the exception of N. moorei, which in some resulting trees was paraphyletic.
Distributions of each of the three sister pairs found in the phylogenetic analysis (N. moorei + N.
imperialis; N. perator + N. atlas; N. baehri + N. popplei) are distinctly allopatric. Several
distantly related species overlap in their regional distributions but are separated at the local
habitat level.