Dromanthomorphus Pic
Creators: name: Tshernyshev, Sergei E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melyridae
Dromanthomorphus

description: Key to the species of the genus Dromanthomorphus Pic of South-East Asia (males only)
1. Antennae flabellate, antennomeres slightly triangular with extremely stretched outer edges.......................... 2
- Antennae flabellate, serrate or filiform with cylindrical and elongate antennomeres.................................. 9
2. Anterior and intermediate legs yellow..................................................................... 3
- All legs almost completely black or dark-brown, only tarsi and knees could be lighter.............................. 5
3. Antennae yellow with black spots on stretched apices of antennomeres; weakly flabellate (Fig. 13); surface with green-blue metallic tint; legs yellow with black posterior femora; anterior tibiae widened and excavate within in apical half (Fig. 14), intermediate tibiae weakly stout and excavate near the apex (Fig. 15); metathoracic appendage with elongate semi-transparent bilaciniate lamellae reaching intermediate coxae (Fig. 16); pygidium as in Fig. 17, ultimate ventrite as in Fig. 18, tegmen as in Fig. 120, aedeagus as in Fig. 19; size— 3.1 mm (Fig. 5)..................................... D. subflabellatus sp. n.
- Antennae dark, except entirely or in part yellow basal segments; antennae strongly flabellate (Fig. 3), beetles large, about 4.3– 4.5 mm ............................................................................................. 4
4. Head metallic blue with yellow distal part from level of antennae insertion, pronotum and scutellum metallic blue, elytra yellow with metallic blue lateral, basal and apical fringing; antennae yellow with black stretched outer sides of 7–11 segments, flabellate from 4th segment; abdomen yellowish with dark apex; anterior and intermediate legs yellow, posterior ones dark except yellow joints; anterior tibiae slightly compressed (Fig. 62) and widened in a middle within (Fig. 63); intermediate tibiae strongly stout, lacking excavations (Fig. 64), pygidium as in Fig. 65; size 4.3 mm .......................... D. cyaneus
- Upperside of the body entirely with metallic blue tint (Figs 1–2), underside black, antennae black-brown with entirely yellowish 1–3 segment and yellow base of the 4th segment, flabellate part wide, stout (Fig. 3); pronotum weakly transverse, elytra gradually widened just behind the middle and narrowed at apices; legs yellow, anterior tibiae weakly widened and excavate before the tip (Fig. 5), intermediate tibiae cylindrical, strongly stout, with flat excavation within (Fig. 6); metatoracic appendage strong, elongate, gladiate, expanded over the intermediate coxae (Fig. 4); pygidium (Fig. 7), ultimate ventrite (Fig. 8), tegmen (Fig. 9) and aedeagus (Fig. 10) as figured; size— 4.5 mm (Fig. 1, 2)............................... D. luzonensis
description: Published as part of Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2016, The genus Dromanthomorphus Pic, 1921 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea: Malachiidae) in South-East Asia, pp. 551-565 in Zootaxa 4139 (4) on page 563, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/399964