Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967

Moravec, Jiří, Brzoska, David & Vybíral, Jan, 2021, New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles- 21. Physodeutera (Microlepidia) propripenis sp. nov., Ph. (M.) marginemaculata (W. Horn) and Ph. (M.) peyrierasi Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), Zootaxa 4941 (1), pp. 33-50 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.2
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scientific name	Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967
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Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967 View in CoL

Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967: 268 View in CoL .

Physodeutera (Microlepidia) View in CoL : Moravec 2002a: 80.

Type species. Prothyma (Megalomma) centropunctata W. Horn, 1934 View in CoL (by original designation).

Seemingly heterogenous subgenus, comprising species with various body size and surface sculpture, but with majority of diagnosis characters congruent. Body large, medium-sized or small. Elytral surface shiny or partly velvet. Penultimate palpomere of labial palpi non- or only moderately dilated. Internal sack of aedeagus possesses ventral spur with aberrant, only rarely normally developed projection.Antennomere 4 not widely lobed, dilated only in Ph. (M.) virgulata (Fairmaire, 1903) View in CoL . Labrum sexually dimorphic in shape, except for Ph. (M.) propripenis View in CoL sp. nov., and Ph. (M.) bucephala (W. Horn, 1900). Mentum with indistinct, short and subacute, rarely longer and acute central tooth.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae
Genus	Physodeutera