Tragardhus, Koch, 1956

Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), Zootaxa 4347 (1), pp. 71-93 : 83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F7666D82-8228-4A2E-AE10-AA5F3F51D652

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6044353

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/87658782-FFD6-FFCD-7EBF-FF2910DBFDF3

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Plazi

scientific name

Tragardhus
status

 

Key to the species of subgenus Tragardhus

1. Third elytral interval forming a sharp and strongly raised continuous costa ( Fig. 4F View FIGURE 4 )............................... 2

-. Third elytral interval composed of more or less elongated tubercles ( Fig. 4G View FIGURE 4 )..................................... 3

2. Anterior pronotal angles protruding outwards. Lateral sides of pronotum, at base, straight. Eighth elytral interval composed of short tubercles ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 )............................................................... T. (T.) majae sp. nov.

-. Anterior pronotal angles not protruding outwards. Lateral sides of pronotum rounded. Eighth elytral interval, at least at middle, with a sharply raised continuous costa ( Fig. 4C View FIGURE 4 ).............................................. T. (T.) jani sp. nov.

3. Fifth, seventh and ninth elytral intervals with a sharply raised continuous costae ( Fig. 2H View FIGURE 2 ). Male protibia with a prominent, obtusely dentiform, arcuate median dilatation ( Fig. 2J View FIGURE 2 )....................................... T. (T.) glandipleurum

-. Fifth, seventh and ninth elytral intervals composed of more or less elongated tubercles ( Fig. 2I View FIGURE 2 ). Male protibia without median dilatation........................................................................................... 4

4. Pronotum cordiform, sinuate anterior to basal angles ( Fig. 4E View FIGURE 4 ). Third, fifth and seventh elytral intervals covered with coarse, dense tubercles; second and fourth intervals covered with sparse tubercles........................... T. (T.) stigmaticus

-. Pronotum narrowed, subparallel in basal half ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Third, fifth and seventh elytral intervals covered with sparse tubercles; second and fourth intervals not covered with tubercles........................................... T. (T.) biapicalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

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