Euphoria discicollis 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 : 102

Euphoria discicollis Species-Group

(Appendix 3: Plate 5k–m )

The only member of this group resembles those in the verticalis and areata species-groups in the globular body shape and ecology, but it exhibits a unique combination of characters to warrant placement in a different group. Together with the areata and verticalis species-groups, this group exhibits a strongly reduced mesometasternal process and a rounded pronotal basal margin. It is distinguished from these two other species-groups by the following: clypeus without denticles; tibial teeth strongly developed; antennal club longer in males; pronotum with a color pattern, body without cretaceous markings; and tarsal claws as long as or longer than last tarsomere (shorter than the last tarsomere in all other species in the genus).

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Plate 5. Euphoria species. inda species-group: a) E. hirtipes, b, c, d) E. inda. areata species-group: e, f) E. anneae, g, h, i) E. areata, j) E. pilipennis. discicollis species-group: k, l, m) E. discicollis. verticalis species-group: n) E. bispinis, o) E. verticalis.