Ceraspis LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Fuhrmann, Juares & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2017, Macrodactylini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae): primary types of type species and taxonomic changes to the generic classification, European Journal of Taxonomy 350, pp. 1-71 : 23-24

Ceraspis LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828

Type species

Ceraspis pruinosa LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828 (designation: Lacordaire 1856: 252); a synonym of C. bivulnerata ( Germar, 1824) .

Diagnosis

Body covered by scale-like or stout setae; pronotal anterior margin not beaded; pronotum−scutellum contact acutely sinuous ( Fig. 8 C ); prosternum with an anterior longitudinal carina; protibia with two external teeth and without spur; meso- and metacoxae contiguous; metatarsomere V with internoproximal spine-like setae.

Remarks

Ancistrosoma , Ceraspis , Chariodema , Faula , Manopus Conte de Castelnau, 1840 , Pectinosoma and Pseudopectinosoma have a sinuous pronotum−scutellum contact ( Fig. 8 A–E). Ceraspis is distinguished by the medially contiguous meso- and metacoxae (separate in other genera).

The present study revalidates Faula , formerly a synonym of Ceraspis . Consequently 27 species are transferred to Faula , and Ceraspis now comprises 75 species: C. ajonjoli Mora-Aguilar, Delgado, and Vallejo, 2013 , C. albipennis Frey, 1973 , C. albovaria Frey, 1962 , C. alvarengai Frey, 1973 , C. amazonica Frey, 1962 , C. amoema Frey,1962 , C. bivulnerata , C. brittoni Frey, 1962 , C. bufo Frey, 1962 , C. burmeisteri Frey, 1962 , C. castaneipennis Blanchard, 1850 , C. cinerea Moser, 1921 , C. citrina Blanchard, 1850 , C. colon Burmeister, 1855 , C. conspersa Burmeister, 1855 , C. convexicollis Frey, 1969 , C. costulata Frey, 1965 , C. decora Gory, 1831 , C. diversa Frey, 1962 , C. dorsata Burmeister, 1855 , C. dorsipicta Frey, 1972 , C. duckei Ohaus, 1911 (type species of monotypic subgenus Isoceraspis Ohaus, 1911 ), C. elegans Nonfried, 1892 , C. elongata Frey, 1962 , C. farinosa Burmeister, 1855 , C. femorata Frey, 1969 , C. flava Blanchard, 1850 , C. fulva Blanchard, 1850 , C. gibbicollis Blanchard, 1850 , C. globicollis Frey, 1962 , C. griseosquamosa Moser, 1921 , C. guttata Blanchard, 1850 , C. imitatrix Nonfried, 1892 , C. kuntzeni Moser, 1921 , C. lepida Frey, 1973 , C. leucosoma Blanchard, 1850 , C. linharensis Frey, 1973 , C. lurida Frey, 1962 , C. martinezi Frey, 1962 , C. melanoleuca LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828, C. mixta Blanchard, 1850 , C. moseri Frey, 1962 , C. mustela Frey, 1962 , C. mutica Moser, 1921 , C. nitida Frey, 1962 , C. nivea LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828 , C. niveipennis Gistel, 1857 , C. oblonga Moser, 1919 , C. obscura Blanchard, 1850 , C. ocellata Frey, 1962 , C. ornata Frey, 1962 , C. pallida Blanchard, 1850 , C. pauperata Burmeister, 1855 , C. penai Frey, 1964 , C. pereirae Frey, 1962 , C. plaumanni Frey, 1962 , C. pulchra Frey, 1962 , C. rotundicollis Frey, 1973 , C. ruficollis Frey, 1962 , C. setiventris Moser, 1921 , C. signata Blanchard, 1850 , C. sparsesetosa Frey, 1972 , C. squamulata Moser, 1924 , C. striata Frey, 1973 , C. subvittata Moser, 1921 , C. sulcicollis Moser, 1921 , C. tenuisquamosa Frey, 1962 , C. tibialis Blanchard, 1850 , C. unguicularis Moser, 1919 , C. variegata Perty, 1833 , C. ventralis Frey, 1862 , C. vestita Blanchard, 1850 , C. vittata Moser, 1919 , C. vulpes Frey, 1962 and C. zikani Moser, 1924 .

Figures

Fig. 8. A−E. Pronotum−scutellum contact. F. Protibia. A. Ancistrosoma klugii Curtis, 1835. B. Chariodema virescens Blanchard, 1842. C. Ceraspis bivulnerata (Germar, 1824). D. Faula cornuta Blanchard, 1850. E−F. Manopus biguttata Conte de Castelnau, 1840. Scale bars = 1 mm.