Atrichelaphinis (Heterelaphinis) Antoine, 2002

Rojkoff, Sebastien & Perissinotto, Renzo, 2015, Review of the genera Anelaphinis Kolbe, 1892 and Atrichelaphinis Kraatz, 1898 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae), ZooKeys 482, pp. 91-142 : 101

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 (Heterelaphinis) Antoine, 2002
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

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Type species.

Elaphinis quadripunctata Lansberge, 1882

Subgeneric characters.

Clypeus longer than wide with the apex slightly sinuous; anterior pronotal border tuberculate or tectiform, but minimally so in female; protibiae bidentate, with teeth normally separated; metatibial apical spurs strongly enlarged (spatuliform) in female; parameres of aedeagus fused with apex modified (in dorsal view), with protrusion in the middle deeply incised or not, apex laterally modified or not. Three species are currently included in this subgenus.