Pseudognaptorina Kaszab

Liu, Hao-Yu & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2009, Review of the genus Pseudognaptorina Kaszab from China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), Zootaxa 2174, pp. 45-50 : 49

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189305

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6213857

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/47586312-A458-FFC0-FF7D-FD7E6683FB7D

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scientific name

Pseudognaptorina Kaszab
status

 

Key to known species of Pseudognaptorina Kaszab

1. Males with lateral margins of pronotum regularly arcuate. Epipleural carina visible from above at anterior one-third. Parameres moderately elongate (1.8 times as long as wide), with deeply sinuate outer margins. Ventral surface of male mesotarsomere I with hair brushes ........................................................................................... P. nepalica Kaszab

- Males with lateral margins of pronotum arcuate at anterior half, and nearly straight or slightly sinuate at posterior half. Epipleural carina visible from above at least at anterior half. Parameres strongly elongate (at least 2.2 times as long as wide), with slightly sinuate outer margins. Ventral surface of male mesotarsomeres I–III with hair brushes or tufts .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2

2. Genae distinctly convex. Prosternum in front of procoxae moderately convex. Males with mesotarsomeres I–II with hair brushes, III with a tuft of hairs at apex ............................................................... P. exsertogena Shi, Ren & Merkl

- Genae slightly convex. Prosternum in front of procoxae strongly convex. Males with mesotarsomeres I–III with hair brushes .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3

3. Upper edge of inner surface of profemur nearly straight. Sides of pronotum explanate and slightly concave. Elytra densely covered with indistinct punctures and coarse wrinkles. Apices of lateral branches of spiculum gastrale distinctly widened ....................................................................................................................................... P. flata sp. nov.

- Upper edge of inner surface of profemur angularly prominent. Sides of pronotum convex. Elytra sparsely covered with distinct punctures and fine wrinkles. Apices of lateral branches of spiculum gastrale slightly widened............... ............................................................................................................................................ P. obtusa Shi, Ren & Merkl

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

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