Prionodera
Creators: name: Flowers, R. Wills
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Prionodera

description: Key to the species of Prionodera
1 Body ovate, relatively short; sides of elytra curved at middle (Fig. 8), color dark blue
....................................................................................................... cyanea (Lefèvre) 1' Body elongate­ovate; sides of elytra subparallel at middle, color variable............ 2
2 (1) Intercoxal process of prosternum depressed posterior to forecoxae, and with apical margin distinctly concave (Fig. 10) ........................................................................ 3
2' Intercoxal process of prosternum not depressed, apical margin truncate or very shallowly concave................................................................................................... 6
3.(2) Body with at least faint metallic sheen, usually metallic green or copper ............... ....................................................................................................... merana Bechyné
3' Body entirely tan or brown .................................................................................... 4
4 (3') Body and elytra entirely light tan (Fig. 5). ........................................ lutea Erichson
4' Body dark brown, elytra dark brown or brown and tan ......................................... 5
5 (4') Body and elytra entirely dark chocolate brown; intervals on elytral disc sharply costate .............................................................................................. arimanes n. sp.
5' Elytra light brown with dark brown sutural and lateral margins, intervals of elytral disc flat .................................................................................... peruviana (Bechyné)
6 (2') Head, pronotum and body reddish or yellowish brown, elytra blue (Fig. 3).......... 7
6' Elytra same color as head and pronotum (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5) ..................................... 8
7 (6) Elytra shining blue, punctures in striae ......................................... bicolor (Olivier)
7' Elytra matte blue, punctation confused ...................................... marshalli Lefèvre
8 (6') Body and elytra metallic green, blue, or coppery .................................................. 9
8' Body and elytra brown or tan, sometimes with faint metallic sheen.................... 14
9 (8) Legs reddish brown to dark brown, contrasting with metallic blue or green body and elytra ......................................................................................... dichroma n. sp.
9' Legs same metallic color as body and elytra........................................................ 10
10 (9') Apical declivity of elytra with two or three elytral intervals weakly to strongly inflated (Figs 11, 12) ............................................................................................ 11
10' Elytral intervals not differentially inflated or swollen above apical declivity ........ ....................................................................................................... kirschi (Lefèvre)
11 (10) Elytral intervals costate and elytral interval III strongly produced posteriorly at apical declivity (Fig. 11) ....................................................................................... 12
11' Elytral intervals fused and only weakly swollen at apical declivity (Fig. 12)...... 13
12 (11) Pronotum more evenly and densely punctate (Fig. 14) ..................... costata (Baly)
12' Pronotum more sparsely and irregularly punctate (Fig. 13) ............ adiastola n. sp.
13(11') Color bright metallic green, known from central to northern Costa Rica (Fig. 3) .. ....................................................................................................... esmeralda n. sp.
13' Color dark blue­green, known from Panamá ........................................... nila n. sp.
14 (8') Legs concolorous yellowish brown .............................................. gaiophanes n. sp.
14' Legs yellowish brown with tarsi and femoral­tibial joints darker brown............. 15
15 (14')Apex of median lobe with projections digitate and angled downward (Fig. 32), known from Panamá and Colombia .................................................. furcada n. sp.
15' Apex of median lobe with projections shorter and not angled downward (Fig. 41), known from the central Amazon Basin ....................................... geniculata (Baly)
description: Published as part of Flowers, R. Wills, 2004, A review of the Neotropical genus Prionodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) with description of a new genus, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 631 on pages 6-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158151