Eucalandra
Creators: name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dryophthoridae
Eucalandra

description: Key to the species of Eucalandra
1 Antennal club (Figs. 13–14) with basal shiny, glabrous portion comprising almost entire length of club, apical pilose portion limited to extreme apex and only clearly visible in distal (apical) view...................2
1’ Antennal club (Figs. 11–12, 15–16) with basal shiny, glabrous portion comprising 0.5–0.8 of length of club, apical pilose portion comprising at least 0.2 length of club and clearly visible in lateral view........3
2 Front femur (Fig. 21) with broad, rounded subapical tooth on inner margin, occluding area on front tibia with short, flat laminate extension from inner margin; pronotum (Fig. 3) with midline with narrow row of yellowish-white broad scales throughout length; lateral margins of pronotum (Figs. 3–4) with similar scales extended in broad row from base to near apex; mesepisternum (Fig. 4) with scales of similar size to those elsewhere on venter ................................................................................................... E. boxi Marshall
2’ Front femur with inner margin simple, occluding area on front tibia simple, not modified; pronotum (Fig. 5) with midline glabrous throughout length (some specimens with few scattered scales at base); lateral margins of pronotum (Figs. 5–6) with broad yellowish-white scales scales arranged in broad row only from base to near midlength; mesepisternum (Fig. 6) with scales larger in size to those elsewhere on venter ...................................................................................................................... E. luteosignata (Blanchard)
3 Pronotum (Fig. 7) deeply, very densely and uniformly punctate; body lacking any broad flat scales; elytra with intervals deeply, densely uniformly punctate; front tibia with subapical tooth similar in size and form to apical tooth ...................................................................................................... E. mexicana (Champion)
3’ Pronotum (Figs. 1, 9) with punctation various but with punctures small and fine or with at least some impunctate areas; body with at least some broad pale scales; elytra with intervals impunctate or with punctures small, shallow and indistinct; front tibia with subapical tooth very small, much shorter than apical large tooth ............................................................................................................................................. 4
4 Tarsi with tarsite 3 with dense fine ventral pilosity limited to area across apical margin; large white flat scales (Figs. 1–2) present on lateral margin of pronotum, mesepimeron, metepisternum, lateral portion of metasternum, elytral intervals 3 and 5 at base and anterior to declivity; inner margin of front tibia distinctly serrate ........................................................................................................... E. setulosa (Gyllenhal)
4’ Tarsi with tarsite 3 with dense fine ventral pilosity covering almost entire apical two-thirds; scale pattern (Figs. 9–10) various, not as above; inner margin of front tibia very finely, indistinctly serrate .................. ........................................................................................................................................... E. alas Anderson
description: Published as part of Anderson, Robert S., 2008, A review of the Neotropical genus Eucalandra Faust, 1899 (Coleoptera; Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae), pp. 57-67 in Zootaxa 1791 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.182534