Revision of the genus Eulichas Jacobson, 1913 (Coleoptera: Eulichadidae) II. E. dudgeoni species group
Author
Hájek, Jiří
text
Zootaxa
2009
2192
1
44
journal article
40692
10.5281/zenodo.189396
ea4e0f79-8de5-4af5-b12c-b88b00befe28
1175-5326
189396
The
Eulichas dudgeoni
species group
The
E. dudgeoni
species group is characterised by a relatively broad phallobase, which is about the same length or slightly shorter than the parameres, and by the short basal parameral apophysis. In addition, the last antennomere is filiform, rectangular or slightly club shaped, never distinctly widened, its ventral part is smooth; and the last maxillary palpomere is club shaped. The group contains 21 species distributed from
Nepal
, northern
India
and southern
China
, through continental south-eastern Asia, where it reaches its highest diversity, to the Greater Sunda Islands and the
Philippines
.