Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): reclassification of eight species to Antitrogus Burmeister, 1855 and Barryfilius new genus
Author
Allsopp, Peter G.
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-29
5213
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journal article
199060
10.11646/zootaxa.5213.5.3
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Key to males of
Barryfilius
1 Antennomere 7 lamellate, or sublamellate at least 0.75x length of lamella of antennomere 8; antennomere 6 lamellate or sublamellate......................................................................................... 2
- Antennomeres 6 and 7 discoidal, sometimes with a slight indication of a lamella................................... 3
2 Antennomere 7 sublamellate, about 0.75x length of lamella of antennomere 8; antennomere 6 sublamellate, about 0.45x length of lamella of antennomere 8; antennomere 5 discoidal; aedeagus as in
Fig. 20...............
B
. contiguus (
Britton, 1978
)
- Antennomeres 6 and 7 lamellate, as long as lamella of antennomere 8; antennomere 5 sublamellate, about 0.5x long as lamella of antennomere 6; aedeagus as in
Fig. 23............................................
B
. quinarius (
Britton, 1978
)
3 Middle third of posterior edge of pronotum without a narrow, raised margin; pale red-brown; clypeus less transverse, 2.8x wide as long; aedeagus as in
Fig. 19.....................................................
B
. centralis (
Britton, 1978
)
- Middle third of posterior edge of pronotum with a narrow, raised margin defined by a groove; colour very dark red-brown or pale red-brown; clypeus more transverse, more than 3.5x wide as long........................................... 4
4 Body light red-brown; clypeus indented in the middle with the labrum visible from above; punctuation of the clypeus and frons finer and denser (about 50
mm-
2
in middle of clypeus); groove defining the narrow, raised posterior margin present across the middle of the pronotum; aedeagus as in
Fig. 21...........................................
B
. laevis (
Arrow, 1932
)
- Body dark red-brown; clypeus with a shallow indentation in the middle, labrum not visible from above; punctuation of the clypeus and frons coarser and less dense (about 30
mm-
2
in middle of clypeus); groove defining the raised posterior margin of the pronotum obliterated in the middle.................................................................... 5
5 Setae on the abdominal ventrites less elongate, about 1.5x long as wide; clypeus less transverse, about 2.7x wide as long; aedeagus as in
Fig. 22.............................................................
B
. lewisae (
Britton, 1978
)
- Setae on abdominal ventrites elongate, about 2.5–3x long as wide; clypeus more transverse, 3.1–3.2x wide as long; aedeagus as in
Fig. 24......................................................................
B
. vernus (
Britton, 1978
)