Euphoria hera Species-Group

Orozco, Jesús, 2012, Monographic Revision of the American Genus Euphoria Burmeister, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 11) 66, pp. 1-182 : 57

Euphoria hera Species-Group

(Appendix 3: Plate 2s–v )

The only species in this group resembles species in the candezei species-group but is distinguished by having the frons with a strong longitudinal ridge and the clypeus strongly emarginated. The color variation observed in E. hera is unique for the genus. Euphoria hera might be a derived member of the candezei species-group that dispersed south.

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Plate 2. Euphoria species. herbacea species-group: a, b) E. herbacea, c, d) E. leprosa, e, f, g) E. steinheili, h, i) E. subguttata. candezei species-group: j, k) E. candezei, l, m, n) E. lesueuri, o, p, q, r) E. westermanni. hera speciesgroup: s, t, u, v) E. hera.