Paragnorimus Becker 1910
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Paragnorimus

description: Key to species of Paragnorimus   
 1. Pronotal disc with a distinct, transverse, cretaceous band (sometimes interrupted medially) (as in Fig. 1-2).................................................................................................................................... 2   
 — Pronotal disc either without a trace of a transverse, cretaceous line (as in Fig. 4-6) or with a very faint, broken line (as in Fig. 3)................................................................................................. 4   
 2(1). Males and females with unicolored head, clypeus without longitudinal stripes. Pygidium more-orless evenly convex in both sexes. Mexico.............  Paragnorimus linea (Burmeister, 1841)    
 — Males with distinctly bicolored or tricolored head, female with unicolored head; apex of clypeus and 3 longitudinal stripes extending to the eye (2 lateral and 1 medial) with a black, shiny, densely punctate surface; base of clypeus and vertex dull olive green, matt, with punctures obscured. Females with pygidial disc transversely concave or more-or less evenly convex, if pygidial disc is convex, then head with cretaceous markings pygidium of males more-or-less evenly convex. Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua............................................................ 3   
 3(2). Head dorsally without cretaceous markings. Pronotum without oblique cretaceous markings posterior to the transverse cretaceous band. Honduras and Nicaragua............................................................................................................................  Paragnorimus hondurensis n. sp.    
 — Head with cretaceous markings. Pronotum with oblique cretaceous markings posterior to the transverse cretaceous band. Guatemala................  Paragnorimus glaseri (Howden, 1971)    
 4(1). Clypeus rounded or truncate....................................................................................................... 5   
 — Clypeus distinctly (sometimes weakly) emarginate.................................................................... 6   
 5(4). Elytra with cretaceous markings...............................  Paragnorimus velutinus Becker, 1910    
 — Elytra without cretaceous markings........................  Paragnorimus aenescens (Bates, 1889)    
 6(4). Elytra with distinct orange and dark green/black pattern (Fig. 3-4)..........................................................................................................................................  Paragnorimus howdeni n. sp.    
 — Elytra unicolored, some specimens with cretaceous markings.................................................. 7   
 7(6). Elytra light brown..................................................  Paragnorimus sambucus Howden, 1970    
 — Elytra black................................................................................................................................. 8   
 8(7). Head and pronotum black.........................................................  Paragnorimus atratus n. sp.    
 — Head and pronotum dull olive green..............  Paragnorimus guatemalensis Howden, 1970
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2010, Three new species of Paragnorimus Becker from Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini) with a redefinition of the genus, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (126) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164417