Malaia Heller 1892
Creators: name: Kaneko, Naoki
name: Wada, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Malaia

description: Key for identification of Sulawesian species of Malaia (subgenus Malaia)
Species distribution is adopted from Machatschke (1957) and Miyake (1996, 2000)
1. Elytra with 2–3 fine longitudinal ridges or clearly punctate rows............................................... 2
- Elytra without longitudinal ridges and punctate rows........................................................ 13
2. Pronotum without hairs or with sparse setae only on lateral sides............................................... 3
- Pronotum covered with hairs.......................................................................... …9
3. Pronotum densely transversely or longitudinally rugoso-punctate................................................4
- Pronotum covered with coarsely spatulate punctures, except rugoso-punctate lateral sides............................5
4. Pronotum transversely rugoso-punctate................................................................... 6
- Pronotum longitudinally rugoso-punctate........................................ Malaia (M.) ritsemae Heller, 1892
5. Propygidium with dense fringe of hairs along posterior margin, pygidium with two large triangular hairy patches.............................................................................. Malaia (M.) tondanoensis Miyake, 1996
- Propygidium without hairs along posterior margin, pygidium with two small and thin tufts at base.......................................................................................... Malaia (M.) castanoptera Miyake, 2000
6. Propygidium with dense fringe of hairs along posterior margin................................................. 7
- Propygidium without hairs along posterior margin............................................................8
7. Pygidium with two hairy tufts at base....................................... Malaia (M.) nigrita (Boisduval, 1835)
- Pygidium bears scattered hairs, without hairy tufts …....................... .. Malaia (M.) gnomonica (Schaufuss, 1885)
8. Pygidium with two small hairy tufts at base...................................... Malaia (M.) cyanea Miyake, 1996
- Pygidium with two large triangular hairy patches................................... .. Malaia (M.) taoi Miyake, 1996
9. Pronotum densely covered with hairs.................................................................... 10
- Pronotum covered with scattered hairs, with coarse horseshoe-shaped punctures under the hairs …........................................................................................... Malaia (M.) macassara Miyake, 2000
10. Pronotum covered with longitudinal aciculate cracks, with fine punctures between these........................... 11
- Pronotum covered with dense grained or annulate punctures...................................................12
11. Pronotal hairs arranged in relatively low density............................... Malaia (M.) ornata (Schaufuss, 1885)
- Pronotal hairs arranged in extremely high density................................ .. Malaia (M.) trajecta Heller, 1892
12. Pronotum covered with dense grained punctures................................. Malaia (M.) vestita (Candèze, 1869)
- Pronotum covered with dense annulate punctures................................ Malaia (M.) celebica (Ohaus, 1936)
13. Pronotum covered with dense granulose texture.............................................................14
- Pronotum fairly densely punctured, with lateral sides showing aciculate punctures..... Malaia (M.) vandepolli Heller, 1892
14. Pronotum with weak oblique impression on each side............................ Malaia (M.) simulatrix Heller, 1892
- Pronotum with strong oblique impression on each side and bearing sparkly gloss................................................................................................ Malaia (M.) medea Kaneko & Wada, new species
description: Published as part of Kaneko, Naoki & Wada, Kaoru, 2022, A new species of the genus Malaia Heller, 1892 (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, pp. 426-432 in Zootaxa 5104 (3) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6332094