Parahabroloma Kurosawa, 1959

Tamadera, Yutaka, 2025, New or little-known jewel beetles on mistletoe, Taxillus Tiegh. (Loranthaceae), in Japan: Unusual morphology and biology in Habroloma Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 5725 (1), pp. 55-88 : 58

Subgenus Parahabroloma Kurosawa, 1959

Remarks. Within the subgeneric concepts in the genus Habroloma ( Habroloma , Parahabroloma Kurosawa, 1959 , and Malobroha Cobos, 1979), the two mistletoe-associated species described below are tentatively assigned to Parahabroloma , which is characterized by the following combination of character states: 1) more or less deplanate body; 2) distinctly concave frons; 3) ridged oculofrontal margins of eyes; and 4) more or less depressed apicolateral part of pronotal disk, sometimes with a small pore at the middle of the depression (Kuorsawa, 1959). However, the two species discussed here have some different character states from typical Parahabroloma species in the antennal scape, clypeus, and/or elytral punctation, and moreover their larval habits are peculiar. This study will discuss the taxonomic implication of these morphological and biological characters in the Discussion section.