Agyrtodini
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Gnaspini, Pedro
name: Newton, Alfred F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodesidae

description: Key to Genera of Agyrtodini of Latin America (modified from Peck et al., 1998a and Salgado, 2015a)
1a Epistomal suture absent; lacinia with large dense rasp-like brush; body ovoid, pronotum widest at or very near base; mesosternum with mid-longitudinal carina................................................................. Agyrtodes
1b Epistomal suture present, usually with small “stem”; lacinia with normal setose brush; body form variable, pronotum usually widest before base; mesosternum carinate or not............................................................. 2
2a Mesosternum not carinate............................................................................... 3
2b Mesosternum carinate.................................................................................. 6
3a Surfaces of pronotum and elytra extremely uneven, with many bumps and depressions; elytra without transverse striolations; pronotum widest before middle, sides sinuately narrowed posteriorly, hind angles right; basal segment of male mesotarsus with large tooth as well as tenent setae................................................................. Ragytodina
3b Surfaces of pronotum and elytra more or less even, without bumps, with few or no depressions; elytra transversely striolate; pronotal shape variable, generally widest at or behind middle, sides not notably sinuate, hind angles obtuse; male mesotarsus never with teeth, with or without tenent setae on basal 1 – 2 segments............................................. 4
4a Pronotum evenly covered with coarse, deep punctures separated by about their own diameters, surface between punctures smooth and shining; male mesotarsus with basal 2 segments expanded and bearing tenent setae................ Eupelates
4b Pronotal punctation variable, generally not coarsely and densely punctate or punctures shallow, surface between punctures variable but often microsculptured and dull; male mesotarsus usually with at most basal segment expanded and bearing tenent setae............................................................................................... 5
5a Male with elevated spinose process on ventral edge of mesofemur, and pair of curved spinose processes near posterior edge of ventrite VII (penultimate visible ventrite); aedeagal parameres glabrous................................. Dasypelates
5b Male without elevated spinose processes on femora and abdominal ventrites; aedeagal parameres setose near apex.................................................................................................. Chiliopelates
6a Body somewhat convex; low mesoventral keel; male mesotarsi slender; elytral longitudinal striae with visible sulci................................................................................................. Karinapelates
6b Body rounded; high mesoventral keel; male mesotarsi expanded; elytral longitudinal striae without sulci....... Dontipelates
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (" Latin America ": Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 4741 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3772899