Sinodiapterna Dellacasa 1986

• Main Author: Shabalin, S. A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Aphodiidae; Sinodiapterna; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7166056; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF3587DB6D6A980B384246F8B927FC11

Key to species of the genus Sinodiapterna from the Russian Far East 1. Elytra with denticles in the shoulder area. Russia: Primorskii krai. S. gorodinskiyi (Gusakov, 2006) – Elytra without denticles in the shoulder area. 2 2. Head coarsely punctured. Elytral striae feebly but distinctly crenulate. Nearly entirely black, shining. Russia: Krasnoyarskii krai, Amurskaya oblast, Jewish autonomous region, Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin, Kunashir. – China (Heilongjiang), North Korea (Yanggang-do), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu). S. troitzkyi (Jacobson, 1896) – Head rugose punctured. Elytral striae not crenulate. Nearly entirely black, strongly shining. 3 3. Epistom distinctly gibbous, with small curve carina, frontal suture strongly carinate, at middle feebly upturned. Pronotum as wide as long. Russia: Primorskii krai. – China (Heilongjiang). S. hammondi (Dellacasa, 1986) – Epistom without trace of carina, frontal suture not elevated market by line. Pronotum two times as wide as long. Russia: Primorskii krai. – North Korea (Yanggang-do). S. songrini (Stebnicka et Galante, 1992) Published as part of Shabalin, S. A., 2018, First record of Sinodiapterna songrini (Stebnicka et Galante, 1992) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Russia, pp. 8-10 in Far Eastern Entomologist 363 on page 9, DOI:10.25221/fee.363.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7164355