Xenoceraspis

Bezděk, Aleš, Lu, Yuanyuan, Král, David & Bai, Ming, 2025, Review of Diphycerini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Part I - the genus Xenoceraspis Arrow, 1920, Journal of Natural History 59 (1 - 4), pp. 57-75 : 73-74

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2442795

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14772455

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/077B87DC-CC01-FFCC-FF55-FAB253DA1889

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Plazi

scientific name

Xenoceraspis
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Key for identification of Xenoceraspis View in CoL species

1 – metafemora and metatibiae enlarged (males) .................................................................... 2 – metafemora and metatibiae unmodified (females) ............................................................... 4

2 – terminal spurs of metatibiae present ( Figure 17 View Figures 14–19 ) males of.......................... X. calcarata – terminal spurs of metatibiae absent ............................................................................................ 3

3 – apex of metatibiae considerably enlarged, beak-like ( Figures 19 View Figures 14–19 ) males of..................

....................................................................................................................................... X. longimacularia – apex of metatibiae moderately enlarged ( Figure 18 View Figures 14–19 ) males of....... ....... X. kurseongana View in CoL

4 – disc of elytra covered with sparse, minute, nearly invisible setae ( Figure 3 View Figures 1–4 ) females of .................................................................................................................................................. X. calcarata

– disc of elytra covered with moderately dense, well visible pale scale-like setae ...... 5

5 – elytra distinctly expanded laterally just in front of metacoxa ( Figure 24 View Figures 20–26 ), with well visible sinuosity from lateral view ( Figure 26 View Figures 20–26 ) females of.......... .......... X. longimacularia

– elytra only weakly expanded laterally just in front of metacoxa ( Figure 23 View Figures 20–26 ), with nearly no sinuosity from the lateral view ( Figure 25 View Figures 20–26 ) females of............ ............ X. kurseongana View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Diphycerini

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