Agnorimus Miyake & Iwase, 1991

Qiu, Jian-Yue, Xu, Hao & Chen, Li, 2019, Coloration variability of the Oriental genus Agnorimus Miyake & Iwase, 1991 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) with synonymic notes, Zootaxa 4585 (3), pp. 531-545 : 533

Agnorimus Miyake & Iwase, 1991

Agnorimus Miyake & Iwase 1991: 187 ; Yu et al. 1998 (in synonymy); Li & Yang 1999: 164 (diagnostic characters); Krajčík 1999: 50; Tauzin 2000 (in synonymy); Tauzin 2004 (in synonymy); Smetana 2006 (in synonymy); Krikken 2009: 13; Krajčík 2011: 75; Krajčík 2012: 14; Bezděk 2016: 404.

Type species: Gnorimus tibialis Chûjô, 1938 (= Gnorimus pictus Moser, 1902 ), by original designation.

Differential diagnosis. By strongly curved inward male mesotibia and inflexed male metatibia, this genus can be easily separated from other genera of the Eurasian Trichiini. It differs from the most similar genus Gnorimus by the following characteristics (modified from Miyake & Iwase (1991): body convex (Fig. 47; flat in Gnorimus ); dorsal surface matt (usually bright in Gnorimus ); anterior margin of clypeus not raised (distinctly raised in Gnorimus ); mesometasternal process distinct and long ( Fig. 2 ; almost invisible in Gnorimus ); scutellum subtriangular (semicircular in Gnorimus ); male abdomen without groove ( Fig. 2 ; with a longitudinal groove in Gnorimus ); female pygidum without groove ( Fig. 5 ; with a medial groove in dorsal view in Gnorimus ); male mesotibia abruptly expand inward in distal portion ( Fig. 1 ; gradually expand inward in Gnorimus ); male metatibia inflexed ( Fig. 1 ; straight in Gnorimus ); segment 1 of male mesotarsus distinctly elongated and pilose ( Fig. 1 ; segment 1 unmodified and glabrous in Gnorimus ); parameres margins almost parallel, and outer margin sharply protrude outward in apex (Fig. 37; margins constricted and without sharply protruding in Gnorimus ).

Distribution. Oriental region.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. The pattern A of elytral coloration (elytra black, with red markings) of Agnorimus pictus (Moser, 1902) from different localities.