Maurodus Leschen & Reid & Nadein 2020
Creators: name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
name: Reid, Chris A. M.
name: Nadein, Konstantin S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Maurodus

description: Key to species of Maurodus
1. Body, exclusive of mouthparts and appendages, unicoloured (Fig. 5A).................................. M. impressus
- Body bi- or mulicoloured............................................................................... 2
2. Elytra unicoloured (Fig. 6A)...................................................................... M. nunni
- Elytra bi- or multicoloured.............................................................................. 3
3. Pronotum completely unicoloured yellow, pale or orange (Figs 8C, 9A).......................................... 6
- Pronotum bicoloured (Figs 6E, 7D)....................................................................... 4
4. Epipleuron bicoloured and black at base (Fig. 7D)................................................... M. ornatus
- Epipleuron unicoloured (Fig. 5H)........................................................................ 5
5. Legs entirely black (Fig. 8B)........................................................................... 10
- Legs yellow or bicoloured (Fig. 5H)...................................................................... 7
6. Elytral maculae extending laterally toward apical ½ (Fig. 9A); male tarsomere 1 not greatly enlarged (Fig. 9C)..................................................................................................... M. supernus
- Elytral maculae not extending laterally to apex (Fig. 8C); male tarsomere 1 greatly enlarged (Fig. 8D)......... M. plagiatus
7. Body form more broadly-oval (Figs 4C, E); lateral edge of elytral macula usually more even and not strongly sinuate (Fig. 4E)....................................................................................... M. cinctiger
- Body form more elongate-oval (Figs 4A, 5F, 6E); lateral edge of elytral macula always irregular and strongly sinuate (Fig. 5G)................................................................................................ 8
8. Pale or yellow area of pronotal disc not reaching level of posterior angle (Figs 4A,B)......................... M. arcus
- Pale or yellow area of pronotal disc reaching level of posterior angle (Figs 5F,H, 6E,F).............................. 9
9. Body form spherical with pronotal sides divergent towards base and elytra widest at basal third with sides more convex in outline (Fig. 5F); male abdominal ventrite 5 vaulted at middle (Fig. 4B)................................ M. maculatus
- Body form broader with pronotal sides subparallel towards base and elytra widest at middle with sides weakly convex in outline (Fig. 6E); male abdominal ventrite 5 not vaulted at middle............................................ M. occiduus
10. Prosternal carinae convergent (Fig. 9D); body more curved rounded with sides of pronotum evenly convex (Fig. 5D).................................................................................................. M. lepidus
- Prosternal carinae parallel-sided (Fig. 8B); body broadly oval and sides of pronotum not evenly convex (Fig. 8A).................................................................................................. M. owenensis
description: Published as part of Leschen, Richard A. B., Reid, Chris A. M. & Nadein, Konstantin S., 2020, Generic Review of New Zealand Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4740 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4740.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3672681