Alticini
Creators: name: Bukejs, Andris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae

description: Key to species of Alticini described from fossil resin
1. Metatarsi attached nearly at middle of metatibia............................................................. 2
- Metatarsi attached on apices of metatibiae.................................................................. 3
2. Pronotal punctation small and fine, distinctly smaller than punctures in elytral striae; antennae rufous. Baltic amber (Kaliningrad region, Russia)................................................. Psyllototus doeberli Bukejs & Nadein 2013
- Pronotal punctation large, as large as elytral punctures in striae; antennae dark. Rovno amber (Ukraine)......................................................................................... Psyllototus progenitor Nadein, 2010
3. Metatarsomere 1 long, about as long as half of metatibia. Baltic amber (Kaliningrad region, Russia)............................................................................... Ambraaltica baltica Konstantinov & Bukejs, 2013
- Metatarsomere 1 relatively short, not longer than 1/3 of metatibia length.......................................... 4
4. Elytra dark (bluish green to black), sometime with metallic reflex............................................... 5
- Elytra pale, almost completely reddish to testaceous brown.................................................... 7
5. Elytra with irregular punctation; lager, body length 4.5 mm. Dominican amber (Dominican Republic)....................................................... Wanderbiltiana wawasita Santiago-Blay, Savini, Furth, Craig & Poinar, 2004
- Elytra with regular punctation; smaller, body length less than 4 mm ............................................ 6
6. Pronotal punctation large and dense, about as large as punctures in elytral striae; antennae and legs completely redish-brown. Rovno amber (Ukraine)....................................... Crepidodera decolorata Nadein & Perkovsky, 2010
- Pronotal punctation fine and sparse, distinctly smaller than punctures in elytral striae; antennae and legs black. Baltic amber (Kaliningrad region, Russia)..................................................... Crepidodera svetlanae sp. nov.
7. Anterolateral callosities large, very protruding from pronotum outline; lateral margins of pronotum parallel, almost straight. Rovno amber (Ukraine)................................................. Manobiomorpha eocenica Nadein, 2010
- Anterolateral callosities relatively smaller, not distinctly protruding pronotal outline; lateral margins of pronotum subparallel, weakly rounded anteriorly.............................................................................. 8
8. Elytral punctation completely regular; pronotum with wide basal border; elytra widely rounded at apex. Oise amber (France).................................................... Crepidocnema yantarica Moseyko, Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2010
- Elytral punctation arranged in striae only on disc, more or less confused in apical 1/3 and laterally; pronotum with relatively narrow basal border; elytra obliquely narrowed apically. Chiapas amber (Mexico)...................................................................................................... Neocrepidodera antiqua (Gressitt, 1971)
description: Published as part of Bukejs, Andris, 2014, A new species of the genus Crepidodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber, pp. 286-290 in Zootaxa 3815 (2) on page 289, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/226869