Taxonomic notes on the tribe Dryptini Bonelli, 1810 with description of a new genus and species from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini)
Author
Sciaky, Riccardo
Author
Anichtchenko, Alexander
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-10
4731
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journal article
24095
10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.5
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1175-5326
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Key to genera of
Dryptini
1 Intervals of elytra weakly or densely punctate, flat or slightly convex............................................ 2
– Intervals of elytra impunctate, costate and transversally striate. Distribution:
Brazil
...........
Neodrypta
Basilewsky, 1960
2 Humeri more or less distinct. Fully winged. Lateral margins of pronotum completely beaded or not. Stylomere smooth, setose or spinose (
figs. 5–8
). Elytra with 1–4 scutellar pores......................................................... 3
– Humeri completely reduced. Hind wings completely reduced. Lateral margins of pronotum completely beaded. Stylomere smooth (
fig. 4
). Elytra with 7–8 scutellar pores..............................................
Megadrypta
gen. n.
3 Lateral margins of pronotum not beaded or with a subtle line, hardly distinct, emargination very weak or absent (figs. 9–10). Stylomere with 3–4 spines on concave margin and with 2–3 spines on convex margin.............................. 4
– Lateral margins of pronotum completely beaded, emargination of pronotum evident (figs. 11 and 13). Stylomere without spines or with a single spine on concave margin.................................................................. 5
4 Claws smooth. Scutellar pores varied in number from 1 to 4, according to the species..............
Drypta
Latreille, 1796
– Claws more or less pectinate. A single scutellar pore present.......................
Dendrocellus
Schmidt-Goebel, 1846
5 Pronotum wide, slightly longer than wide (fig. 11), with sides evidently serrulate and evidently constricted towards base; disc of pronotum coarsely and deeply punctate; at most one rudimental seta on outer side of stylomere (
fig. 6
). Distribution: South-East Asia..........................................................................
Prionodrypta
Jeannel, 1949
– Pronotum narrow, much longer than wide (fig. 13), with sides not serrate and very slightly constricted towards base; disc of pronotum sparsely punctate or transversally wrinkled (except
N. setigera
, which shows a punctuation on head, pronotum and elytra almost as in
Prionodrypta
); no setae on outer side of stylomere (
fig. 5
). Distribution:
Madagascar
, Continental Africa................................................................................
Nesiodrypta
Jeannel, 1949