Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1836

Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2013, Four new species of the genus Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1836 from China (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini), Zootaxa 3737 (3), pp. 251-260 : 251-252

Smaragdina Chevrolat, 1836

Diagnosis: The genus Smaragdina can be recognized by the following characters: body shape elongate and subcylindrical, size usually smaller than 6mm; head small, very short; mandibles short; eyes round or elongate; antennae slender, 2nd and 3 rd antennomeres short and equal, following antennomeres serrate; pronotum transverse, posterior angles rounded; scutellum large; elytra without distinct epipleural lobes; legs short, fore legs slightly longer than others, tarsi short, 1st tarsomere longer than 2nd; pygidium not exposed.

This genus is closely allied to the genus Aethemorpha Lacordaire, 1848 (Jacoby, 1908; Medvedev, 2010; Warchałowski, 2012), but is usually distinguished by the absence of epipleural lobes and a concealed pygidium.