A revision of the genera Anilaroides Théry, 1934, stat. nov. and Tetragonoschema Thomson, 1857 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-10-18
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1
38
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3521.1.1
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subgen.
Tetragonoschema
s. str.
Type
species:
Tetragonoschema chrysomelinum
Thomson, 1857
(by monotypy; currently
T. quadratum
(Buquet, 1841))
.
Black, bronze or multicolorous, shortened (sometimes almost as long as wide) species; elytra usually very short, flat, conspicuously uneven with one common, medial depression and with deep lateral and preapical depressions; elytral epipleura wide, well-developed, nearly or completely reaching elytral apex (
Figs. 59, 60
); frons usually deeply impressed with prominent swellings above antennal insertions, rarely frons convex; pronotum less convex, transverse, usually with more or less distinct lateroposterior depressions; antennae and tarsi black; aedeagus spindle-shaped or elongate, parameres very often with lateral hooks or spines (
Figs. 68, 69
,
75–78
).