Melalgus Dejean, 1835: 309
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.3.5 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8130639 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D8F215-6E33-FF92-54DB-762C3CA6FC51 |
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Melalgus Dejean, 1835: 309 |
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Genus Melalgus Dejean, 1835: 309 View in CoL View at ENA
Type species: Apate gonagra Fabricius, 1798: 156 (= Apate femoralis Fabricius, 1792: 361 ). Monotypy. (Bousquet & Bouchard, 2013: 73).
Diagnosis. Body elongate, cylindrical, reddish-brown to black. Head strongly convex, completely visible from above. Lateral profile of head evenly arcuate in both sexes. Fronto-clypeal suture more or less distinct. Mandibles not impressed dorsally, closing below labrum. Antennae with 9‒11 antennomeres. Pronotum with sides flattened or weakly concave, lateral margin without carinae. Elytra parallel-sided, moderately convex, with or without longitudinal carinae on apical declivity. Protibiae short and thick, deeply emarginate at base. Sexual dimorphism usually well-developed, males less conspicuously setose than females, and elytra often glabrous posteriorly, not punctured and granulate throughout. Further morphological characters are given by Fisher (1950).
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Polycaoninae |
Melalgus Dejean, 1835: 309
Liu, Lan-Yu & Beaver, Roger A. 2023 |
Melalgus
Dejean, P. F. M. A. 1835: 309 |