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Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier 1967

  • 1. Mendel University in Brno, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2. 2740 Island Pond Lane, Naples, Florida 34119, U. S. A
  • 3. Biosférická rezervace Dolní Morava, o. p. s., Národních hrdinů 23, 690 02 Břeclav, Czech Republic

Description

Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967

Physodeutera (Microlepidia) Rivalier, 1967: 268.

Physodeutera (Microlepidia): Moravec 2002a: 80.

Type species. Prothyma (Megalomma) centropunctata W. Horn, 1934 (by original designation).

Seemingly heterogenous subgenus, comprising species with various body size and surface sculpture, but with majority of diagnosis characters congruent. Body large, medium-sized or small. Elytral surface shiny or partly velvet. Penultimate palpomere of labial palpi non- or only moderately dilated. Internal sack of aedeagus possesses ventral spur with aberrant, only rarely normally developed projection.Antennomere 4 not widely lobed, dilated only in Ph. (M.) virgulata (Fairmaire, 1903). Labrum sexually dimorphic in shape, except for Ph. (M.) propripenis sp. nov., and Ph. (M.) bucephala (W. Horn, 1900). Mentum with indistinct, short and subacute, rarely longer and acute central tooth.

Notes

Published as part of Moravec, Jiří, Brzoska, David & Vybíral, Jan, 2021, New or rare Madagascar tiger beetles- 21. Physodeutera (Microlepidia) propripenis sp. nov., Ph. (M.) marginemaculata (W. Horn) and Ph. (M.) peyrierasi Rivalier (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), pp. 33-50 in Zootaxa 4941 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4594651

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References

  • Rivalier, E. (1967) Le genre Physodeutera Lacordaire (Col. Cicindelidae) revision et description d'especes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, New Series, 3, 261 - 296.
  • Moravec, J. (2002 a) Tiger beetles of Madagascar 2. A monograph of the genus Physodeutera (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Nakladatelstvi Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic, 290 pp.
  • Horn, W. (1934) Catalogue Bibliographique et synonymique des Cicindelides de Madagascar (Coleoptera, Fam. Carabidae, sbfam. Cicindelini). In: HORN, W. & OLSOUFIEFF, G., Les Cicindelides de Madagascar (premiere partie). Memories de l' Academie Malgache, 1934, 7 - 28.