New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles- 21. Physodeutera (Microlepidia) propripenis sp. nov., Ph. (M.) marginemaculata (W. Horn) and Ph. (M.) peyrierasi Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Mendel University in Brno, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Author
Brzoska, David
2740 Island Pond Lane, Naples, Florida 34119, U. S. A
Author
Vybíral, Jan
Biosférická rezervace Dolní Morava, o. p. s., Národních hrdinů 23, 690 02 Břeclav, Czech Republic
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-05
4941
1
33
50
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.2
1175-5326
4594651
77262AD3-7FA4-4F48-BC44-58AE8B21688C
Physodeutera
(
Microlepidia
)
Rivalier, 1967
Physodeutera
(
Microlepidia
)
Rivalier, 1967: 268
.
Physodeutera
(
Microlepidia
)
:
Moravec 2002a: 80
.
Type
species
.
Prothyma
(
Megalomma
)
centropunctata
W.
Horn, 1934
(by original designation).
Seemingly heterogenous subgenus, comprising species with various body size and surface sculpture, but with majority of diagnosis characters congruent. Body large, medium-sized or small. Elytral surface shiny or partly velvet. Penultimate palpomere of labial palpi non- or only moderately dilated. Internal sack of aedeagus possesses ventral spur with aberrant, only rarely normally developed projection.Antennomere 4 not widely lobed, dilated only in
Ph.
(
M.
)
virgulata
(Fairmaire, 1903)
. Labrum sexually dimorphic in shape, except for
Ph.
(
M.
)
propripenis
sp. nov.
,
and
Ph
. (
M
.)
bucephala
(W. Horn, 1900). Mentum with indistinct, short and subacute, rarely longer and acute central tooth.