Manopus Conte de Castelnau, 1840

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 : 39

Manopus Conte de Castelnau, 1840

Type species

Manopus biguttatus Conte de Castelnau, 1840 (designation: monotypy).

Diagnosis

Body brown with elytron bearing irregular dark areas, opaque; pronotal anterior margin not beaded; pronotum−scutellum contact slightly sinuous ( Fig. 8 E ); prosternum with an anterior longitudinal carina; protibia with three external teeth and without spur, internal angle spine-like ( Fig. 8 F ); meso- and metacoxae separate; internal area of metatarsomere V with spine-like setae.

Remarks

The genera Ancistrosoma , Chariodema , Faula , Manopus , Pectinosoma and Pseudopectinosoma are similar to each other. They have a sinuous pronotum−scutellum contact and separate meso- and metacoxae. Manopus is distinguished by having the pronotum−scutellum contact slightly sinuous (similar to Pectinosoma , Fig. 8 E ); protibia with three teeth, without spur, and with internal angle spinelike ( Fig. 8 F ); male ventrite VI straight.

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.