Clytra Laicharting
Creators: name: Wang, Feng-Yan
name: Zhou, Hong-Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Clytra

description: Key to Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting (based on Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
1 Body oval, obviously narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly (Figs. 13 D–F)...... C. (Clytraria) duodecimmaculata (Fabricius)
- Body sub-cylindrical, not narrowed and elytra more or less parallel-sided......................................... 2
2 Pronotum black....................................................................................... 3
- Pronotum fulvous or yellow with black markings........................................................... 6
3 Elytra yellow, only with black apical margins, without humeral spot...................... C. (s. str.) reductoapicalis Pic
- Elytra fulvous, each elytron with a humeral spot............................................................ 4
4 Pronotum widely edged, densely and coarsely punctured, especially on the lateral margins (Fig. 12 G).................................................................................... C. (s. str.) quadripunctata turfanica Lopatin
- Pronotum narrowly edged, with very fine punctures or impunctate.............................................. 5
5 Each elytron with a small humeral spot and a sub-rectangular band at apical two fifths (Fig. 12 F), in China only occurring in Xinjiang................................................................... C. (s. str.) laeviuscula Ratzeburg
- Patterns on the elytra variable: each elytron with a humeral spot and a reduced band at apical two-fifths (Fig. 13 A), which sometimes divided into two spots; each elytron with a single humeral spot (Fig. 13 C); sometimes each elytron with a large oblong humeral spot and a sub-square band at apical two-fifths (Fig. 13 B); occurring in the north of China .................................................................................................. C. (s. str.) arida Weise
6 Pronotum with a fused black marking..................................................................... 7
- Pronotum with more than one black marking............................................................... 8
7 Each elytron with a basal oblique and a transverse band at apical one-third (Fig. 12 C); occurring in the north of China ........................................................................ C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis asiatica Chûjô
- Each elytron with a humeral spot, a spot at basal one-third near elytral suture, and a band at apical one-third (Fig. 12 D), occur- ring in Xinjiang..................................................... C. (Clytraria) atraphaxidis punctata Weise
8 Pronotum with two black spots.......................................................... C. (s. str.) guerryi Pic
- Pronotum with more than two black spots................................................................. 9
9 Pronotum with four black markings...................................................................... 10
- Pronotum with three black markings..................................................................... 11
10 Frons without marking, ventral side of median lobe with a high ridge (Fig. 5 F)......... C. (Clytraria) yunnana Medvedev
- Frons with a red marking, ventral side of median lobe not highly convex (Fig. 10 F).......... C. (s. str.) rubrimaculata Tan
11 Body parallel-sided, pronotum with a sub-rhombic marking medially and a pair of small lateral spots (Fig. 12 I).............................................................................................. C. (s. str.) tsinensis Pic
- Body sub-cylindrical, pronotum with an oblong marking medially and two small spots, one on each side.............. 12
12 Last tarsomere longer than 2nd and 3rd together, apex of median lobe truncated (Figs. 2 D–F)...................................................................................................... C. (Clytraria) truncatula sp. nov.
- Last tarsomere not longer than 2nd and 3rd together, apex of median lobe emarginate (Figs. 1 D–F).................................................................................................... C. (Clytraria) tanae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wang, Feng-Yan & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2011, A synopsis on the Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini), pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 3067 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201359