Selasia Laporte, 1838

Packova, Gabriela & Kundrata, Robin, 2021, The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 4926 (2), pp. 285-292 : 286

Genus Selasia Laporte, 1838

Selasia Laporte, 1838: 19 .

Type species: Selasia rhipiceroides Laporte, 1838 .

Diagnosis. This genus is characterized by the following combination of characters: body usually stout, frontoclypeal region short and wide, labrum more than four times wider than long, antenna flabellate, posterior margin of pronotum shallowly arcuately emarginate or almost straight (never rectangularly emarginate), scutellar shield longer than wide, anterior margin of mesoventrite slightly concave, and abdomen with seven free ventrites ( Kundrata & Sormova 2018, Kundrata & Bocak 2019, this study) ( Figs 1 , 2 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Selasia apicalis Pic, 1914, holotype. A,B. Habitus, dorsal and lateral view, respectively. C. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. D. Head, frontal view. E. Tergites IX and X, dorsal view. F. Sternite IX, ventral view. G–I. Male genitalia, dorsal, lateral and ventral view, respectively. Scale bars = 2.0 mm (Fig. 1A,B), 1.0 mm (Fig. 1C), 0.3 mm (Fig. 1D–I).

FIGURE 2. Selasia ivanae sp. nov., holotype. A–C. Habitus, dorsal, ventral and lateral view, respectively. D. Head and pronotum, dorsal view. E. Head, dorso-frontal view. F. Head, frontal view. G. Right antenna, dorsal view. H. Tergite X, dorsal view. I. Tergite IX, dorsal view. J. Sternite IX, ventral view. K–M. Male genitalia, dorsal, lateral and ventral view, respectively. Scale bars = 2.0 mm (Fig. 2A–C), 1.0 mm (Fig. 2D,E,G), 0.5 mm (Fig. 2F,J), 0.3 mm (Fig. 2H,I,K–M).