Laemophloeus souzalimai, a new species of lined flat bark beetle (Coleoptera Cucujoidea, Laemophloeidae) from Southeast Brazil
Author
Bento, Matheus
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-30
5072
3
278
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journal article
3171
10.11646/zootaxa.5072.3.4
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Identification key to species of
Laemophloeus
with antennal club of 6 or more antennomeres [modified from
Thomas (2013)
].
1. Elytra maculate ....................................................................................... 4
— Elytra not maculate; may be infuscate..................................................................... 2
2(1). Male clypeus with deep antennal emarginations; body color more or less uniformly testaceous or dark testaceous...........3
— Male clypeus with shallow antennal emarginations; head and pronotum dark testaceous, elytra testaceous, infuscate medially...................................................................................
L. concinnus
Thomas
3(2). Frons without V-shaped excavation, with longitudinal line usually deeply impressed; lateral sides of head not excavated, with eyes not laterally protruding; antennal emarginations of clypeus rounded......................
L. sexarticulatus
Kessel
— Frons with a broad, V-shaped excavation, with longitudinal line effaced to barely defined; lateral sides of head strongly excavated, with laterally protruding, somewhat pedunculated eyes; antennal emarginations of clypeus somewhat V-shaped.....................................................................................
L. souzalimai
sp. nov.
4(1). Frons unmodified, not excavate; ground color of body testaceous; elytra dark basally and along suture, forming ill-defined, pale, elongate, maculae...............................................................
L. macrognathus
Reitter
— Frons medially excavate; ground color of body castaneous or piceous; elytra with well-defined pale maculae.............5
5(4). Medial excavation of frons broadly V-shaped; surface of head between punctures smooth, not microreticulate; genal processes anteriorly projected...................................................................
L. germaini
Grouvelle
— Medial excavation of frons as a deep groove; surface of head between punctures strongly microreticulate; genal processes unprojected..........................................................................
L. buenavista
Thomas