Review of the genus Chilotrogus Reitter (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae Rhizotrogini) in Iran with description of two new species
Author
Miessen, Geoffrey
Author
Uliana, Marco
Author
Keith, Denis
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-19
4742
1
181
193
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4742.1.12
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1175-5326
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Genus
Chilotrogus
Reitter, 1905
Chilotrogus
Reitter, 1905: 203
.
Type
species:
Chilotrogus panotrogoides
Reitter, 1905
by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Elongate, sometimes wholly or partly pruinous, without any cerosity. Dark. Most often glabrous in appearance, rarely pilose. Body somewhat widened posteriad. Antennae with 10 antennomeres, with club trimerous. Clypeus strong, elongated, slightly transverse, anteriorly reflexed. Labrum transverse, bilobed, with angular lateral margins. Clypeus and frons in the same plane. Vertex without carina. Tarsal claws basally dented. Metatarsus II longer than metatarsus I. Protibiae bi- or tridentate. Base of pronotum not margined. Sides of the pronotum at least partially crenulate. Ventral side with dense pilosity, longer and erected on thoracic segments, shorter and adpressed on ventrites. Parameres longitudinally emarginate up to the base, with a small well sclerified internal piece.