Lebiini
Creators: name: Erwin, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae

description: Key to the Costa Rican genera of the Cryptobatida Group, Subtribe Agrina (Lebiini)
(Modified in part from Erwin, Kavanaugh & Moore 2004)
1 Elytron at basal third depressed, surface uneven, tuberculate or not, and/or margin of pronotum angulate or subangulate at mid­lateral setiferous pore ............................... .......................................................................................... Cryptobatida Group ... 2
1' Elytron neither depressed nor tuberculate, surface smooth with normal interneurs and intervals (or interneurs effaced); side of pronotum evenly rounded .................... .......................................... Plochionida Group, Calleidida Group, Agrida Group
2 Elytron markedly tuberculate overall or with a series of small setiferous tubercles in
intervals 3 and 5 ....................................................................................................... 3 2' Elytron without trace of discal tubercles; lateral marginal intervals with or without calli ................................................................................................................................... 5
3(2) Prothorax somewhat tubular, much narrower than head ... Otoglossa Chaudoir 1872
3' Prothorax wider than head ...................................................................................... 4
4(3') Sides of pronotum narrowly reflexed except at mid­lateral seta, there wide; neck well­defined, narrow; elytra metallic blue, forebody rufous....1 Thoasia Liebke 1939
4' Sides of pronotum broadly reflexed throughout; neck broad ...................................... ........................................................................................... Hyboptera Chaudoir 1872
5(2') Antennomere 4 glabrous except for apical ring setae .............................................. 6
5' Antennomere 4 multisetiferous from basal third to apex, in addition to apical ring setae ................................................................................................................................... 7
6(5) Elytron laterally with callus at apical third; male endophallus without flagellum ..... ........................................................................................ Valeriaaschero Erwin 2004
6' Elytron laterally without callus at apical third; male endophallus with flagellum ...... ........................................................................................... Aspasiola Chaudoir 1877
7(5') Head and pronotum densely and evenly punctate ....... Cylindronotum Putzeys 1846
7' Head and pronotum smooth ...................................................................................... 8
8 (7') Pronotum with lateral margin narrowly reflexed from base to apex .......................... ...................................................................................... Pseudotoglossa Mateu 1961
8' Pronotum with lateral margin moderately or markedly reflexed from base to apex 9
9(8') Elytron laterally at apical third with large callus ....... Cryptobatis Eschscholtz 1829
9' Elytron laterally at apical third without callus ........................ Onota Chaudoir 1872
description: Published as part of Erwin, Terry L., 2004, The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: The genera of the Cryptobatida group of subtribe Agrina, tribe Lebiini, with new species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 662 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158702