Systematics and phylogeny of Eodrepanus, a new Drepanocerine genus, with comments on biogeographical data (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Oniticellini)

We described here Eodrepanus gen. n., currently comprising nine species, six previously assigned to the genus Drepanocerus and three described as new (namely, E. morgani sp. n., E. paolae sp. n. and E. coopei sp. n.). Two of the new species have an afrotropical distribution, whilst the latter is an Eemian fossil species from England. Maximum Parsimony was used to analyze reciprocal relationships among the species of Eodrepanus gen. n., and four of the 24 species remaining in Drepanocerus. Support for these phylogenies was evaluated using the Bootstrap method and Bayesian Inference as implemented in MrBayes. The biogeography of Eodrepanus gen. n. was analyzed using several different methods, viz. Analysis of Similarity (Ochiai Index). Dispersal- Vicariance Analysis (DIVA) and Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE).