Pseudomicrocara Armstrong

• Main Authors: Libonatti, María Laura, Ruta, Rafał
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Scirtidae; Pseudomicrocara; Ruta; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5685353; https://zenodo.org/record/5685353

Key to the Argentinean species of Pseudomicrocara Armstrong 1 Elytra unicolored, testaceous, brownish testaceous or dark brown................................................ 2 - Elytra with distinct color pattern, at least suture has different color than elytra..................................... 4 2 Elytra dark brown to black, pronotum yellow to orange with a brown central macula; habitus elongate, elytral margins subpar- allel; female with setal patch on ventrite 4; TL/EW> 2........................................... P. angusta sp. nov. - Elytra testaceous or brownish testaceous, pronotum testaceous or brownish testaceous with or without maculae; habitus elon- gate-oval, elytral margins rounded; female without setal patch on ventrite 4; TL/EW<2.............................. 3 3 Testaceous, head and pronotum without maculae; trigonium simple; TL> 5 mm...................... P. livida (Fabricius) - Brownish testaceous, head with three pairs of brown maculae, pronotum with one central large macula and one small macula on each side; trigonium bifid; TL<5 mm.................................................. P. patagonica (Curtis) 4 Elytra testaceous with brown suture....................................................................... 5 - Elytral pattern different, with partly or completely testaceous suture............................................. 6 5 Right mandible with a single tooth, left mandible lacking teeth; apex of trigonium truncate........ P. antarctica (Fairmaire) - Both mandibles with a single tooth; apex of trigonium acute................................... P. inflexipenis sp. nov. 6 Elytra with pale testaceous suture and four pale testaceous longitudinal-oblique stripes interspersed with five wider brown stripes, each of these transversely interrupted by three rows of irregular pale maculae; elytra with four costulae; TL>5.0 mm.................................................................................. P. hieroglyphica sp. nov. - Elytral pattern different, brown with one oblique pale macula located behind the humerus, approximately at the end of the basal quarter; elytra without costulae; TL<4.0 mm............................................ P. obliquata (Solier) : Published as part of Libonatti, María Laura & Ruta, Rafał, 2013, Review of the Argentinean species of Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), pp. 137-157 in Zootaxa 3718 (2) on page 184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3718.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/248524