Languropilus
Notice: | This page is derived from the original publication listed below, whose author(s) should always be credited. Further contributors may edit and improve the content of this page and, consequently, need to be credited as well (see page history). Any assessment of factual correctness requires a careful review of the original article as well as of subsequent contributions.
If you are uncertain whether your planned contribution is correct or not, we suggest that you use the associated discussion page instead of editing the page directly. This page should be cited as follows (rationale):
Citation formats to copy and paste
BibTeX: @article{Roland2011ZooKeys92, RIS/ Endnote: TY - JOUR Wikipedia/ Citizendium: <ref name="Roland2011ZooKeys92">{{Citation See also the citation download page at the journal. |
Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Cleridae
Name
Languropilus Pic, 1940 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type species:
Languropilus fortipes Pic, 1940. Pic 1940a[1]: 3.
Distribution:
Aethiopian region (East Africa).
Material examined:
Languropilus fortipes (females), Tanzania, Shinyanga Prov., Serengeti Sopa L., 19.XI.93, LF., Heiss (RGCM).
Description
Head: With weakly protruding eyes, only very slightly emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space about two times one eye width; gular sutures long, converging, gular process broad; antennae short, A1 large, stout, almost two times longer than A2, A2=A3 or A2>A3, A3-A8 filiform, antennomeres becoming shorter, A8 almost spherical, A9 and A10 transverse, A11 ovate, terminal three antennomeres forming a distinct club.
Thorax: Proepimeron medium-sized, more rounded than acute; anterior mesosternal process absent; metendosternite with normal furcal stalk length, stalk slender, base almost straight, furcal arms of more or less normal length, acute distally (Fig. 15). Elytra long, broadest behind middle, apices broadly rounded, elytral punctation arranged into ten striae.
Legs: Of normal size, stout; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-3, tibial spur formula 1-2-2; tibiae without longitudinal carinae; claws simple.
Taxon Treatment
- Roland, G; Jonas, E; 2011: Definition and Revision of the Orthrius-group of genera (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae) ZooKeys, 92: 35-60. doi
Other References
- ↑ Pic M (1940a) Diagnoses de Coléoptères exotiques. L’Echange, Rev.Linn. 56 (479): 2–4.
Images
|