Aulacophora

Lee, Chi-Feng & Beenen, Ron, 2015, Revision of the genus Aulacophora from Taiwan (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Zootaxa 3949 (2), pp. 151-190 : 153

Key to species of the genus Aulacophora from Taiwan

1. Elytron yellowish brown, some with black spots, or black elytron with yellow apex................................ 2

- Whole elytron black................................................................................... 7

2. Whole elytron yellowish brown.......................................................................... 3

- Elytron yellowish brown with black spots or black elytron with yellow apex...................................... 5

3. First antennomere enlarged and elytra with erect hairs behind elytra humerus in male; cone-like pygidium projecting elytral apex in female; scutellum yellowish bown.................................................................. 4

- Without such sexually secondary characters; scutellum blackish brown.................................... A. tibialis

4. With a pair of tubercles on pronotum in male; pygidium slender and black in female....................... A. kotoensis

- Without tubercles on pronotum in male; pygidium wide and yellowish brown............................. .. A. indica

5. Elytron yellow with two big black square patches, one at humerus and the other at apical 1/3................... A. analis

- Not such patterns...................................................................................... 6

6. Elytron yellow with one black spot on humerus; or two transverse rows of black spots, anterior row composed of two spots, one at humerus, the other near suture, posterior row composed of transverse band ( Figs 18, 20 ); some with posterior rows con- nected with each other ( Fig. 21 ); some with basal 1/4 black and one pair of small yellow spots at base near humerus, and pos- terior rows connected with each other ( Fig. 22 ) or separated bands ( Fig. 24 ); some with anterior row composed of two spots and apical half black ( Fig. 23 ); some with basal 2/3 ( Fig. 25 ) or most of elytra black ( Fig. 26 ) but with one pair of small yellow spots near humerus............................................................................. A. bicolor

- Basal 1/3 ( Fig. 125 ), 2/3 ( Fig. 126 ), or most of elytra ( Fig. 123 ) black without yellow spots at base, meso- and metathoracic and abdominal ventrites black; or black elytron with yellow apical margin extending into middle ( Fig. 124 ), meso- and metathoracic and abdominal ventrites yellow......................................................... A. tibialis

7. Meso- and metathoracic ventrites, and legs black................................................... A. nigripennis

- Whole ventral surface yellow........................................................................... 8

8. Antennomeres III to V filiform in both sexes............................................................... 9

- Antennomeres III to V triangular in male................................................................ 10

9. Elytron opaque ( Fig. 80 ); antenna of male more slender than female; apical margin of abdominal ventrite V truncate in female......................................................................................... A. opacipennis

- Elytron shining ( Figs 73, 75 ); antenna of male wider than female; apical margin of abdominal ventrite V sinuate in female............................................................................................... A. lewisii

10. Antennomere III longer than wide, and vertex with longitudinal groove ( Fig. 111 ) in male; antennomeres VII to X relatively wider than that of A. palliata (2.8–3.2 times longer than wide) in female................................. A. frontalis

- Antennomere III long as wide, and ventex with transverse ridges ( Fig. 112 ) in male; antennomeres VIII to X relatively slender than that of A. frontalis (3.5–3.7 times longer than wide) in female....................................... A. palliata

Figures

FIGURES 18 – 26. Habitus of Aulacophora bicolor (Weber). 18. Male, Taiwan, dorsal view; 19. Ditto, ventral view; 20. Female, Taiwan, dorsal view; 21. Female, Java, dorsal view; 22. Male, Java, dorsal view; 23. Male, Java, dorsal view; 24. Female, Sumatra, dorsal view; 25. Female, Sumatra, dorsal view; 26. Male, Vietnam, dorsal view.

FIGURES 121 – 128. Habitus of Aulacophora species. 121. A. tibialis, Taiwan, male, dorsal view; 122. Ditto, ventral view; 123. A. tibialis, Vietnam, female, dorsal view; 124. A. tibialis, Java, female, dorsal view; 125. Lectotype of A. dohrni, dorsal view; 126. Paralectotype of A. dohrni, dorsal view; 127. A. apicipes, male, dorsal view; 128. Ditto, venral view.

FIGURES 73 – 81. Habitus of Aulacophora species. 73. A. lewisii, male, dorsal view; 74. Ditto, ventral view; 75. A. lewisii, female, dorsal view; 76. Ditto, ventral view; 77. A. nigripennis, male, dorsal view; 78. Ditto, ventral view; 79. A. nigripennis, female, dorsal view; 80. A. opacipennis, male, dorsal view; 81. Ditto, ventral view.

FIGURES 108 – 112. Habitus of Aulacophora species. 108. A. palliata, male, dorsal view; 109. Ditto, ventral view; 110. A. palliata, female, dorsal view; 111. Head of A. frontalis, male; 112. Head of A. palliata, male.