. Breviora. BREVIORA No. 225 found, as noted by Jeannel himself (1949: 1058, "... a de- veloppe la meme sculpture elytrale") ! More recently, Basilewsky (1963: 7-8, 63-64) added new char- acters, which should also be analyzed. He characterized Galeri- tella as having "... une membrane apicale transparente aux elytres,'' and a more voluminous aedeagus, the latter very often with "partie terminale individualisee" (the latter, however, only in the African species).. Fig. 1. Galeritula orientalw, 5 from Jabalpur (MCZ), inouthparts. Fig. 2. G. americana, $ from Trinidad (MC
. Breviora. BREVIORA No. 225 found, as noted by Jeannel himself (1949: 1058, "... a de- veloppe la meme sculpture elytrale") ! More recently, Basilewsky (1963: 7-8, 63-64) added new char- acters, which should also be analyzed. He characterized Galeri- tella as having "... une membrane apicale transparente aux elytres,'' and a more voluminous aedeagus, the latter very often with "partie terminale individualisee" (the latter, however, only in the African species).. Fig. 1. Galeritula orientalw, 5 from Jabalpur (MCZ), inouthparts. Fig. 2. G. americana, $ from Trinidad (MCZ), mouthparts. As to the first character, Asian species have a membranous apical margin on the elytra (for a width of less than mm). This membrane is much less developed in Neotropical species, but it can be found with high magnification and careful examination. As part of this paper, I have measured and studied the geni- talia of the Oriental species which were available (Figs. 4-8). Although the relative size of the aedeagus really seems to be larger in these than in most Neotropical species, it seems also to be true that the Oriental species are larger insects than the average Neotropical species, so that insofar as my investigation goes, the size of aedeagus seems to be directly related to the size of the species. I have not studied the genitalia of any African species of Galeritella; however, Basilewsky (1963: 64 and fig. 28) indicates that the African species have a less well developed aedeagus, and this seems to agree with the average smaller size of the African Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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