A synopsis on the Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini)
Author
Wang, Feng-Yan
Author
Zhou, Hong-Zhang
text
Zootaxa
2011
3067
1
25
journal article
46128
10.5281/zenodo.201359
354ec148-322d-480c-8399-9bdb5b9d1957
1175-5326
201359
Genus
Clytra
Laicharting, 1781
Clytra
Laicharting, 1781
: 165
;
Chapuis, 1874
: 120
;
Jacoby & Clavareau, 1906
: 32
;
Clavareau, 1913
: 47
;
Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961
: 88
;
Medvedev, 1961
: 636
;
Regalin & Medvedev, 2010
: 566
.
Syn.:
Clythra
Fabricius, 1798
: 110
;
Lacordaire, 1848
: 190;
Lefèvre, 1872
: 139.
Camptolens
Chevrolat, 1837
(
nec
Lacordaire, 1848
): 419;
Monrós, 1953
: 47 (
type
:
Clytra rugosa
Fabricius
).
Type
species:
Chrysomela quadripunctata
Linnaeus, 1758
.
Diagnosis.
The genus
Clytra
can be recognized by the following character states: body similar in both sexes, cylindrical, generally robust; head and ventral side more or less pubescent, mandibles short, eyes large and oblong; antennae short; pronotum of variable shape, generally transverse, posterior angles of pronotum not elevated; elytra without produced epipleural lobes, epipleura not pubescent; legs robust, tarsi broad; last ventrite of the male generally with a smooth surface in the middle, while in the female with a fovea.