Anthrenus

Háva, Jiří & Kadej, Marcin, 2015, Description of a new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy 1762, with a key to species from Nepal, Zootaxa 3920 (3), pp. 488-492 : 490-491

Key to Anthrenus species from Nepal

(modified from Kadej & Háva 2012)

1. Antenna with 5–6 antennomeres ............................................................................................... A. cechovskyi , sp. nov.

- Antenna with 8–11 antennomeres................................................................................................................................. 2

2. Antenna with 8 antennomeres....................................................................................................................................... 3

- Antenna with 10–11 antennomeres............................................................................................................................... 5

3. Antennal club shorter than half of antenna................................................................................................................... 4

- Antennal club almost as long as half antenna or longer ........................................................................... A. nepalensis

4. Antennal club with 2 antennomeres, female antennomere VIII at least 2.5x longer than antennomere VII; male antennomere VIII at least 5x longer than antennomere VII ...................................................................... A. museorum

- Antennal club with 3 antennomeres, female antennomere VIII at least 1.3–1.6x longer than antennomere VII; male antennomere VIII at least 2.8–3.0x longer than antennomere VII ............................................................ A. hartmanni

5. Antenna with 10 antennomeres .................................................................................................................. A. maculifer

- Antenna with 11 antennomeres..................................................................................................................................... 6

6. Eye with median margin entire, scales short and stout, 1.5–2.0x as long as wide .......................... A. flavipes flavipes

- Eye with median margin not entire (oval), scales elongated, very narrow (seta–like), 3.0–6.0x as long as wide ........ ..................................................................................................................................................................... A. verbasci