Ophthalmoglipa
Creators: name: Ruzzier, Enrico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Mordellidae
Ophthalmoglipa

description: Key to Ophthalmoglipa species
1 Species from the African continent........................................................................ 2
- Species from SE Asia and Oceania........................................................................ 4
2 Head and pronotum covered by a golden pubescence (Fig. 1A); parameres as in Fig. 2 A. Central and West Africa.................................................................................... O. aurocaudata (Fairmaire 1897)
- Head and pronotum covered by a silvery pubescence. São Tomé and Principe Island................................ 3
3 Median elytral band consisting of an “N-shaped” patch of white setae (Fig. 1 D); preapical elytral band very large (width 0.7x length). Parameres as in Fig. 2 C. Principe Island................................................. O. horaki n. sp.
- Median elytral band consisting of an irregular circular ring of white setae (Fig. 1 C); preapical elytral band small (width 1. 2 x length); parameres as in Fig. 2 B. São Tomé Island............................................... O. leblanci n. sp.
4 Apex of the elytra, base of the pygidium and ventral surface covered by golden-white pubescence (Fig. 1 E). Australia .................................................................................. O. elongatula (Mac Leay, 1872)
- Apex of the elytra, base of the pygidium and ventral surface covered by white pubescence............................ 5
5 Humeral elytral band elongated, extending from base of the elytra to one third of the elytral length and connected to the elytral margin by a transverse band of golden pubescence, leaving an oblong area of black pubescence at the humeral callus (Fig. 1 F); parameres as in Fig 2 D.......................................................... O. australis Franciscolo, 1965
- Humeral elytral band not elongated, “W” or “XX-shaped”, surrounding patches of black pubescence (pattern resembling G. (Stenoglipa) species).................................................................................. 6
6 Humeral elytral band interconnected along the suture by a median elytral band (Fig. 1 G); male protibiae strongly curved; parameres as in Fig. 2 E. Maluku Island (Seram)........................................ O. maranoleai Horak, 1998
- Humeral elytral band not reaching the median elytral band; male protibiae only slightly curved....................... 7
7 Postscutellar spot of black pubescence present (Fig. 1 G); pubescence of head and pronotum golden; parameres as in Fig. 2 F. Papua (Irian-Jaya)................................................................... .. O. iriana Horak, 1998
- Postscutellar spot absent; pubescence of head and pronotum silvery (Fig 1 H); parameres as in Fig. 2 G. Maluku Island (Seram)..................................................................................... O. bilyi Horak, 1998
description: Published as part of Ruzzier, Enrico, 2015, Taxonomic considerations on the genus Ophthalmoglipa Franciscolo, 1952 (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) with description of two new species, pp. 364-370 in Zootaxa 4059 (2) on page 369, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/239434