Plateros Bourgeois 1879
Creators: name: Tvardik, David
name: Bocak, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Plateros

description: Key to the <i>Plateros</i> species known from Sulawesi 1. Elytra concolour yellow...................................................... 2 ­ Elytra dark brown to black, at most with very narrow yellow to reddish brown margins.... 4 2. Antennomeres 3­11 almost parallel­sided (Fig. 22), phallus slender in apical part (Figs 12­13), male eyes diameter slightly smaller than interocular distance............... <i>P</i>. <i>lalui</i> <b>sp. n.</b> ­ Antennomeres 3­11 serrate (Fig. 20), male unknown............................... 3 3. Pronotum 1.45 times wider at base than long at midline, frontal margin widely rounded, frontal angles inconspicuous, antennae dark brown to black............. <i>Plateros toliensis</i> <b>nom. n.</b> ­ Pronotum 1.83 times wider at base than long at midline, frontal margin of pronotum slightly projected, frontal angles distinct, antennae dark brown to black..... <i>P. flavidus</i> Kleine, 1933 4. Pronotum red, with a patch at middle of basal margin.............. <i>P. celebensis</i> Pic, 1921 ­ Pronotum black, at most with very narrow brown to reddish brown margins............. 5 5. Maximum male eye diameter eyes larger than interocular distance..................... 6 ­ Maximum male eye diameter eyes smaller than interocular distance................... 7 6. Maximum diameter of male eye 1.46 times interocular distance, phallus strongly curved in apical part (Figs 5­6)...................................................... <i>P. milenae</i> <b>sp. n.</b> ­ Maximum diameter of male eye 1.13 times interocular distance, phallus slender, straight, widened in apical part (Figs 1­2)................................... <i>P. kalamensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b> 7. Lateral margins of elytra light brown to reddish brown.............................. 8 ­ Elytra concolour dark brown to black............................................ 9 8. Antennomeres 3­10 acutely serrate (Fig. 27), narrow margins of pronotum lighter than disc, phallus slender, curved in middle part, widened apically, internal sac membranous (Figs 9­10)........................................................... <i>P. tanatorajensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b> ­ Antennomeres 3­10 almost parallel­sided (Fig. 26), margins of pronotum concolour with disc, phallus robust, internal sac partly sclerotized (Figs 11)........... <i>P. rubromamasensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b> 9. Margins of pronotum concolour with disc, antennae very slender, antennomeres 3­11 parallelsided (Fig. 25), phallus very slender (Figs 7­8)...................... <i>P. orobuensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b> ­ Margins of pronotum lighter than disc, antennomeres 3­10 serrate (Fig. 23), phallus robust, curved in apical part (Figs 3­4)................................. <i>P. mamasensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Tvardik, David &amp; Bocak, Ladislav, 2001, Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 16</i> on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618537
description: {"references": ["Kleine, R. (1933) Neue Lycides und Bemerkungen zum Cat. Col. Junk-Schenkling Lycidae. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 94, 1 - 20.", "Pic, M. (1921 a) Contribution a l'etude des Lycides. L'Echange Revue Linneenne, 404, 1 - 4."]}