Antibothrus morimotoi Sasaji, an Old World cocoon-forming beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Bothrideridae) newly established in North America
Author
Mcelrath, Thomas C.
Author
Androw, Robert A.
Author
Mchugh, Joseph V.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4154
3
323
330
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.7
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1175-5326
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Key to the Nearctic genera of
Bothrideridae (
sensu
Robertson
et al.
2015
)
(
Coleoptera
: Coccinelloidea)
[modified from
Stephan (1989)
and
Philips & Ivie (2002)
; see those references for figures of genera other than
Antibothrus
]
1. Procoxae separated by half or more than half the width of one procoxa; greatest width of pronotum less than greatest width of elytra; body generally flattened and wider................................................................. 2
1’’. Procoxae contiguous or nearly so; greatest width of pronotum about equal to greatest width of elytra; body generally subcylindrical, elongate, or narrow............................................................................. 4
2(1). Elytral costae interrupted or notched; each elytron with pair of conspicuous yellow callosities at or near mid length.............................................................................................
Lithophorus
Sharp
2’’. Elytral costae uninterrupted and even; elytra lacking yellow callosities.......................................... 3
3 (2”). First abdominal ventrite with distinct postcoxal lines extending beyond mid length of ventrite, usually nearly reaching the posterior margin; pronotal disc with pair of large, unusually shaped nodules bordered by deep grooves and separated by narrower groove............................................................................
Prolyctus
Zimmerman
3’’. First abdominal ventrite with postcoxal lines at most vaguely indicated; pronotal disc not extremely modified, usually at most with median longitudinal depression........................................................
Bothrideres
Dejean
4 (1”). Length greater than 9.0 mm; antennal club weakly 3-segmented; pronotal disc with well-developed, deep, median longitudinal groove, interrupted near middle; Pacific Northwest and
California
.............................
Deretaphrus
Newman
4”. Length less than 6.0 mm; antennal club 2-segmented; pronotal disc variously modified, but if possessing groove never interrupted near middle; eastern and southern US............................................................... 5
5 (4”). Procoxae contiguous; scape and pedicel normal, not joined asymmetrically; terminal two antennomeres subequal in width..........................................................................................
Sosylus
Erichson
5”. Procoxae narrowly separated; scape and pedicel joined asymmetrically, scape with pointed nodule; terminal antennomere narrower than penultimate (~ 2/3 as wide) (
Fig. 1
)................................................
Antibothrus
Sharp