Denierella Kaszab

Yang, Yu-Xia & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2007, Review of Chinese species of the genus Denierella Kaszab with a key to the worldwide species (Coleoptera, Meloidae), Zootaxa 1642, pp. 53-59 : 54

Key to known species (male) of the genus Denierella Kaszab

1 Protibia with a single spur; protarsomere I compressed and widened laterally.......................................... 2

- Protibia with two spurs; protarsomere I normally subcylindrical................................................................ 3

2 Elytral apex broadly with gray pubescence..................................................................... D. serrata Kaszab

- Elytral apex without light pubescence.............................................................................. D. mimos Kaszab

3 Leg and antenna with very long setae.......................................................................................................... 4

- Leg and antenna without very long setae..................................................................................................... 6

4 Elytron with a median longitudinal stripe of gray pubescence; antenna shorter, reaching the middle of body ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

- Elytron without any median longitudinal stripe of light pubescence; antenna reaching the apex of body ... .................................................................................................................................... D. birmanica Kaszab

5 Median longitudinal light pubescent stripe extending to the middle of elytron, and broader than that along outer margin; antennomeres II–V with dense long black setae................................. D. venerabilis Kaszab

- Median longitudinal light pubescent stripe nearly extending to the apex of elytron, and as broad as that along outer margin; antennomeres I–V and base of VI with dense long black setae.... D. striolata sp. nov.

6 Elytron brown in the middle, dark brown at base and apex, yellow pubescent in longitudinal middle and along outer, inner and apical margins; protarsomere I longer than half of protibia ...................................... ............................................................................................................................ D. incompleta (Fairmaire)

- Elytron black or brown, entirely dark or brown pubescent, never light pubescent; protarsomere I shorter or at most as long as half of protibia................................................................................................................ 7

7 Meso- and meta-femur and tibia ventrally with dense moderately long black setae...... D. minutiserra Tan

- Meso- and meta-femur and tibia ventrally without dense moderately long black setae.............................. 8

8 Elytron brown or dark brown; body opaque, at least partially dark brown pubescent................................ 9

- Elytron entirely black; body shiny, entirely black pubescent ................................................................... 10

9 Elytron brown in the middle, dark at base and apex, dark pubescent; antenna reaching the apex of body; pronotum hardly depressed at base......................................................................... D. brunneopaca Kaszab

- Elytron dark brown entirely, dark brown pubescent; antenna shorter, reaching the middle of body; prono- tum obviously depressed at base.......................................................................................... D. kaszabi Saha

10 Head subquadrate; antenna long, reaching the apex of body, antennomere III twice as long as II, V–XI subequal in length to III; pronotum about as wide as head .................................................. D. freyi Kaszab

- Head quadrate, about 1.5 times as wide as long; antenna short, reaching the middle of body, antennomere III more than twice as long as II, IV–XI all obviously shorter than III; pronotum narrower than head ....... ..................................................................................................................................... D. stockleini Kaszab