Platyebaeus Wittmer

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2015, A new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Platyebaeus Wittmer, 1995 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Malachiidae) from Philippines, Zootaxa 3941 (2), pp. 289-293 : 293

Key to the species of the genus Platyebaeus Wittmer

1. Pronotum uniformly orange, elytra almost completely black or orange, legs yellow, sometimes with slightly darkened tibiae and tarsi............................................................................................. 2

- Only lateral sides of pronotum orange, elytra black with straw slopes and orange-yellow apices, intermediate and posterior legs black with anterior legs yellow with narrow black stripes above ( Philippines: Luzon)....... quirinicus Tshernyshev , sp. n.

2. Antennae and elytra uniformly black, legs yellow, intermediate and posterior tibiae and tarsi darkened ( China: Yunnan)....................................................................................... bellulus Wittmer, 1995

- Antennomeres 1–4 and base of 5th antennal segment orange, the remainder black; elytra almost completely orange with black stripes at base and near suture and two black elongate spots in the middle; legs yellow with posterior femora basally black ( China: Yunnan)..................................................................... kubani Wittmer, 1999