Pyticara SPINOLA

Opitz, Weston, 2015, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Enopliinae GISTEL (Coleoptera Cleridae). Part IV. The New World genus Pyticara SPINOLA, Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 711-730 : 715-716

Key to species of Pyticara SPINOLA

1 Head across eyes wider than anterior margin of pronotum...............................................2

1' Head as wide as anterior margin of pronotum..................................................................3

2(1) Pronotal disc with wide central yellow vertical streak; elytral disc without yellow post humeral streak ( Brazil) ( Fig. 32 )................................. Pyticara batesiana (GORHAM)

2' Pronotal disc without wide central yellow vertical streak; elytral disc with yellow post humeral streak ( Fig. 36 ) ( Brazil) ................................. Pyticara lineatohumeralis PIC

3(1') Sides of elytral disc very explanate ( Brazil) ( Fig. 37 ) Pyticara simoata OPITZ , new species

3' Sides of elytra not very explanate.....................................................................................4

4(3') Anterior half of elytral disc flavotestaceous ( Costa Rica, Panamá) ( Fig. 33 )..................... ............................................................................................. Pyticara championi GORHAM

4' Anterior half of elytral disc black.....................................................................................5

5(4') Anterior margin of elytra flavotestaceous ( Brazil) ( Fig. 35 ) .............................................. ................................................................................. Pyticara implana OPITZ , new species

5' Anterior margin of elytra black ( Colombia, French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil) ( Figs 34 , 38 )............................................................................................. Pyticara duponti SPINOLA

Figures

Fig. 32-35: Photographs of Pyticara species. (32) P. batesiana. (33) P. championi. (34) P. duponti. (35) P. implana.

Figs 36-39: Photographs of Pyticara and Chrysomelidae species. (36) P. lineatohumeralis. (37) P. simoata. (38) P. duponti. (39) Chrysomelidae: Monocesta depressa.