Ora
Creators: name: Libonatti, María Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scirtidae
Ora

description: Key to the Argentine species of the genus Ora
1 Body reddish testaceous with antennae, legs and apical part of elytra dark brown to black (Figs. 1–3)................................................................................................... Ora atroapicalis Pic, 1928
- Body differently colored............................................................................... 2
2 Head, pronotum and scutellar shield brown, elytra uniformly yellow or yellow with brown spots (Figs. 20, 21).......................................................................................... Ora semibrunnea Pic, 1922
- Body differently colored............................................................................... 3
3 TL less than 3.0 mm (Fig. 5).......................................................... Ora bivittata Pic, 1922
- TL more than 3.5 mm ................................................................................. 4
4 Elytra with a zigzag yellow mark enclosed by brown areas (Figs. 18, 19). Penis L-shaped in ventral aspect (Fig. 100).......................................................................................................... 5
- Elytra differently colored. Penis not L-shaped............................................................... 6
5 Body oval, TL/EW 1.3–1.4 (Libonatti 2014: fig. 22). Penis narrower, with a shorter lateral protuberance (Libonatti 2014: fig. 38)..................................................................... Ora brevieminentia Libonatti, 2014
- Body oblong oval, TL/EW 1.7–1.8 (Figs. 18, 19). Penis broader, with a longer lateral protuberance (Fig. 100)........................................................................................... Ora platensis Brèthes, 1925
6 Body broadly oval (Figs. 6–12). Elytra punctation not uniform, with intermixed coarser punctures. Penis rod-shaped (Figs. 68, 117). Prehensor without well-defined sclerites (Figs. 54, 74, 122)................................................ 7
- Body oval or elliptical (Figs. 13–17, 22–25). Elytra punctation uniform, without intermixed coarser punctures. Penis not rodshaped (Figs. 86, 133). Prehensor with well-defined sclerites (Figs. 90, 138,139)................................... 9
7 Body wider, TL/EW 1.1–1.2. Elytra yellow with pale spots (Libonatti 2014: figs. 23, 24). Left-handed surface of tegmen spiny (Libonatti 2014: figs. 55, 57). Anterior part of bursal sclerite not folded, with a single central tooth, margin rectangularly notched, middle part with a pair of shorter and narrower teeth (Libonatti 2014: figs. 61, 62)..................................................................................................... Ora megadepressa Libonatti, 2014
- Body narrower, TL/EW 1.4–1.5. Elytra yellow with or without brown spots (Figs. 6–12). Left-handed surface of tegmen not spiny (Fig. 62). Anterior part of bursal sclerite folded, with three teeth, margin not notched or ovally notched, middle part with a pair of longer and broader teeth (Figs. 55–57, 75, 76)...................................................... 8
8 Elytra yellow with non-coalescent small brown spots (Fig. 6). Anterior margin of bursal sclerite rounded, not notched (Fig. 56).................................................................................... Ora bruchi Pic, 1928
- Elytra yellow, without spots (Fig. 8) or with small brown spots (Fig. 10), usually coalescing in larger spots in the anterior 1/3 (Fig. 9), or with a rounded brown spot (Fig. 11), or with a brown basal fascia (Fig. 12). Anterior margin of bursal sclerite notched (Figs. 77, 78).......................................................... Ora depressa (Fabricius, 1801)
9 Body oval. Elytra testaceous to brown, not costulate, without a trifurcate black mark on apex (Figs. 22–25). Tegmen with two apical lobes: a digitiform left-handed lobe and a very acute and curved right-handed lobe (Fig. 132). Prehensor with two rows of spiny sclerites (Fig. 139)........................................................... Ora wagneri (Pic, 1928)
- Body elliptical. Elytra testaceous to brown, costulate, with a trifurcate black mark on apex (Figs. 13–17). Tegmen with one digitiform apical lobe (Fig. 85). Prehensor without rows of spiny sclerites (Fig. 90)................................ 10
10 Body smaller, TL 4.1–4.9. Tegmen with a right-handed spiny region (Fig. 85). Dorsal appendix of penis with the lateral margins straight, diverging posteriorly to the broadly rounded apex; ventral appendix of penis straight in its major part, slightly curved at apex (Fig. 86). Prehensor chair-shaped (Fig. 90).............................. Ora mediolineata (Pic, 1928)
- Body larger, TL 4.9–6.0. Tegmen without spiny regions (Libonatti 2014: fig. 73). Dorsal appendix of penis broadened at middle, then lateral margins converging posteriorly to the obliquely truncate apex; ventral appendix of penis uniformly curved (Libonatti 2014: fig. 72). Prehensor boxing-glove-shaped (Libonatti 2014: fig. 80)......... Ora sigmoidea Libonatti, 2014
description: Published as part of Libonatti, María Laura, 2015, A revision of the genus Ora Clark, 1865 (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) in Argentina (part II) — redescriptions, updated distributions and a key to species, pp. 69-97 in Zootaxa 3985 (1) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/289063