Review of the genera Anelaphinis Kolbe, 1892 and Atrichelaphinis Kraatz, 1898 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae)
Author
Rojkoff, Sebastien
Author
Perissinotto, Renzo
text
ZooKeys
2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8343
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8343
1313-2970-482-91
21C3B7D0B18743EABB38175C704D7550
Taxon classification Animalia
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Atrichelaphinis
s. l.
Kraatz, 1898
Generic characters.
Clypeus rectangular; antennal club longer in male than in female; pronotum sub-octogonal, anterior border convex with or without projection, posterior
border
largely convex, more or less bisinuate, posterior angles not acute; scutellum longer than wide, apex from more or less acute to slightly dull; elytra tricostate; mesosternal apophysis tansverse; male abdomen concave with a median depression; protibia bi- or tridentate, meso- and metatibias with transverse carina on external side, metatibia widened and thickened at apex; aedeagus with parameres fused, except at apex, internal sac without sclerite; female genitalia (Figure 2) exhibiting regression of tergite and retention of epipleurite IX as dorsopleurite, showing articulation on simplified gonopod, with gonopod composed of coxosubcoxite IX made of partial fusion of coxite and subcoxite.
Figure 2.
Atrichelaphinis (Eugeaphinis) deplanata (Moser, 1907)
. Female genitalia (EPL IX: epipleurite IX; CSC IX: coxosubcoxite IX) (Scale bar = 1 mm).