Identification of Truetok Tokkies Toktokkus
Identification of Toktokkus (Truetok Tokkies)
Key, figures and distribution map are available in these two papers
- https://bioone.org/journals/annales-zoologici/volume-72/issue-1/00034541ANZ2022.72.1.010/New-Species-of-Toktokkus-from-Mozambique-Tenebrionidae--Sepidiini/10.3161/00034541ANZ2022.72.1.010.full
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342229101_First_insights_into_the_phylogeny_of_tok-tokkie_beetles_Tenebrionidae_Molurina_Phanerotomeina_and_examination_of_the_status_of_the_Psammodes_vialis_species-group
Features used in the key: be sure to photograph them - fortunately this key seems to be based primarily on dorsal features, so ID in this genus to species should be very easy:
- Elytral disc ( flat or convex)
- Elytra apex (slope, depressions, margins)
- Elytra shape (round, elongate)
- Elytral hairs (black, golden, absent)
- Humeri (front edges of elytra) (prominent or not)
- Tubercles (shape [pointed, rounded, indistinct], arrangement: # rows and position, density, angle of point, size (all same or "microtubercles"present), separate or merging ("confluent")
- Prosternal collar (margin shape)
- Pronotum punctures (prominent, micro, none)
- Body size (small < 25mm > large) - will need a scale or notes!
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map of species here
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=1351258,1351262,1351255,1351254,1351261,1351256,1351260,1391259,1391269,1398113,1351259,1351253,1351248#6/-23.354/25.156
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TAPPING TOKTOKS
Here is an interesting video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeFQjvzTwE&ab_channel=ColeopteristsSociety
Add it here - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/tenebrionidae-darkling-beetles-of-southern-africa/journal/86842-african-tenebrionidae-of-the-vhembe-biosphere-reserve,
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