The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka
Author
Packova, Gabriela
0000-0001-7949-619X
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7949 - 619 X
Author
Kundrata, Robin
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-05
4926
2
285
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journal article
8296
10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.8
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1175-5326
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Genus
Selasia
Laporte, 1838
Selasia
Laporte, 1838: 19
.
Type
species:
Selasia rhipiceroides
Laporte, 1838
.
Diagnosis
. This genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: body usually stout, frontoclypeal region short and wide, labrum more than four times wider than long, antenna flabellate, posterior margin of pronotum shallowly arcuately emarginate or almost straight (never rectangularly emarginate), scutellar shield longer than wide, anterior margin of mesoventrite slightly concave, and abdomen with seven free ventrites (
Kundrata & Sormova 2018
,
Kundrata & Bocak 2019
, this study) (
Figs 1
,
2
).