Bietia Fairmaire, 1898

Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A review of the genus Bietia with a description of a new species from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Goliathini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 517-528 : 519-520

Genus Bietia Fairmaire, 1898

Bietia Fairmaire, 1898: 385 . Type species: Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 , subsequent designation by Medvedev (1964: 37).

Bietia: SCHENKLING (1921) : 81 (catalogue; in Goliathini : Ichnestomina ); WINKLER (1929): column 1119 (catalogue; in Goliathini ); MEDVEDEV (1964): 37 (diagnosis; type species designation; in Goliathini ); MIKŠIĆ (1977): 380 (diagnosis; in former Heterorrhinini); KRIKKEN (1978): 263 (note on distribution; in ‘Ischnostomina’); KRIKKEN (1984): 55 (list; in Goliathini : Coryphocerina ); SAKAI & NAGAI (1998): 234 (note in Japanese), 382 (note in English); KRAJČÍK (1998): 19 (catalogue; in Goliathini : Coryphocerina ); SMETANA (2006): 301 (catalogue; in Goliathini : Coryphocerina ).

Atropinota Heller, 1923: 78 . Type species: Atropinota funkei Heller, 1923 , by monotypy.

Atropinota: WINKLER (1929) : column 1120 (catalogue; in Cetoniini ); MEDVEDEV (1964): 104 (diagnosis; in Cetoniini ); KRIKKEN (1984): 55 (synonymized with Bietia ); MA (1995):110, fig.88 (description; as valid genus in Cetoniini ); KRAJČÍK (1998): 25 (catalogue; as valid genus in Cetoniini : Cetoniina); SMETANA (2006): 284 (catalogue; as valid genus in Cetoniini : Cetoniina).

Diagnosis. Colour. Head and pronotum black, elytra blackish to brownish; antennae moderately elongated; pronotal punctation dense, with puncture diameter larger than width of interspaces on most of its surface; posterior margin of pronotum straight or with very shallow emargination at scutellar shield; elytra with flat and obtuse, uniform or irregularly interrupted costae; humeral calli flat and obtuse, apical calli very obtuse or missing; subhumeral emargination rather shallow, deepest point at level of metepimeron; sutural ridge obtusely elevated in the posterior third, its termination not sharp, not protruding over elytral apex; metaventrite, prosternum and mentum always with long yellowish setation; meso-metaventral process small, terminated with not protruding obtuse keel; abdomen of males constricted, with indistinct medial furrow; protibia bi- or tridentate, metatibia with carina in the apical third; tarsi elongated, especially in males; genitalia simple, parameres running parallelly.