Atrichelaphinis s. l. Kraatz, 1898

Rojkoff, Sebastien & Perissinotto, Renzo, 2015, Review of the genera Anelaphinis Kolbe, 1892 and Atrichelaphinis Kraatz, 1898 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae), ZooKeys 482, pp. 91-142 : 97-98

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.482.8343

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:21C3B7D0-B187-43EA-BB38-175C704D7550

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Atrichelaphinis s. l. Kraatz, 1898
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Atrichelaphinis s. l. Kraatz, 1898

Generic characters.

Clypeus rectangular; antennal club longer in male than in female; pronotum sub-octogonal, anterior border convex with or without projection, posterior border largely convex, more or less bisinuate, posterior angles not acute; scutellum longer than wide, apex from more or less acute to slightly dull; elytra tricostate; mesosternal apophysis tansverse; male abdomen concave with a median depression; protibia bi- or tridentate, meso- and metatibias with transverse carina on external side, metatibia widened and thickened at apex; aedeagus with parameres fused, except at apex, internal sac without sclerite; female genitalia (Figure 2) exhibiting regression of tergite and retention of epipleurite IX as dorsopleurite, showing articulation on simplified gonopod, with gonopod composed of coxosubcoxite IX made of partial fusion of coxite and subcoxite.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae