ClassiIication, Natural History, and Evolution oI the SubIamily Peloniinae OPITZ (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae). Part XIII. The New World genera oI checkered beetles of the Labasiella complex
Author
Opitz, Weston
Research Associate, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry / Entomology, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
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Genus
Labasiella
SPINOLA
,
1849
CORPORAAL 1950: 307
(Cregya).
OPITZ 2017a: 62
.
Type species:
Labasiella varipennis
SPINOLA 1849: 409
. By original designation.
J u n i o r S y n o n y m:
Exochonotus
BARR 1980: 179
. Type species:
Lebasiella varipennis
SPINOLA, nov.syn.
Diagnosis: The tubercles on the pronotal disc are found in
Labasiella
SPINOLA and
Oncochelyna
OPITZ.
Labasiella
specimens show a subsecuriform (
Fig. 54B
) terminal maxillary and labial palpomere. These structures are strongly securiform in
Oncochelyna
.
Description: This genus was adequately described in
OPITZ (2017a: 62)
. Additional characteristics are: Pronotal sides reticulated and elytral posterior slope gradual (
OPITZ 2017: 111
).