Altitatiayus Weinreich 1960
Creators: name: Grossi, P. C.
name: Koike, R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Altitatiayus

description: Key to the species of Altitatiayus (modified from Grossi and Almeida 2011)   
 1 Male mandibles with bifurcate or trifurcate apex....................................................................... 2   
 — Male mandibles with simple apex, not bifurcate or trifurcate. São Paulo, Piquete (Pico dos Marins)..................................................................................................................  A. campoi sp. nov.    
 2(1). Male mandibles longer than head in lateral view. Female head slightly convex on disc; pronotum entirely punctate, punctures moderate to coarse. Clean specimens without blue iridescence 3   
 — Male mandibles shorter than head in lateral view. Female head concave on disc; pronotum smooth, finely punctate. Clean specimens with blue iridescence............................................ 6   
 3(2). Male head near anterior margin at middle with a conspicuous process. Mandibles with apex trilobed. Female unknown. Minas Gerais, Passa Quatro (Serra Fina)..................................................................................................................  A. trifurcatus (Grossi and Racca-Filho)    
 — Male head simple, without any process. Mandibles with apex bilobed...................................... 4   
 4(3). Male mandibles robust, with apical bifurcation wide and with at most 3 internal teeth. Female canthi projected laterally; internally with a strong and hollowed dorsal concavity; pronotal disc moderately densely punctate; puncture size moderate. Elytra with lines of moderately sized punctures. Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia (Vale das Prateleiras)..............  A. rotundatus (Boileau)    
 — Male mandibles slender with apical bifurcation narrow. Female without the combination of characters listed above............................................................................................................. 5   
 5(4). Male pronotum projecting forward and with a small pit at middle. Female canthi not projected, in the same plane as eye surface, concavity when present situated more laterally; pronotal disc densely punctate; puncture size large. Elytra with lines of large to coarse punctures. Minas Gerais, Itamonte (Serra Negra).....................................  A. dulceae (Bomans and Arnaud)    
 — Male pronotum not projecting forward, widely concave anteriorly. Female canthi less concave than A. dulceae; pronotal disc moderately punctate; punctures moderate. Elytra with lines of fine to moderate punctures. Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia (Morro do Couto).......................................................................................................................  A. godinhorum (Bomans and Arnaud)    
 6(2). Male mandibles with a strong upturned basal tooth; pronotum in both sexes reddish, with anterior margin slightly concave. Elytra black; elytral punctures fine. Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia (Pico das Agulhas Negras)...........................................................................  A. ruficollis (Lüderwaldt)    
 — Male unknown. Female pronotum and elytra totally red. Anterior pronotal margin simply convex. Elytral punctures moderate to large. Minas Gerais, Passa Quatro (Serra Fina)...................... ........................................................................................................................ A. koikei Grossi
description: Published as part of Grossi, P. C. & Koike, R. M., 2011, Description of a new species of the stag beetle genus Altitatiayus Weinreich (Coleoptera, Lucanidae, Lucaninae), pp. 1-4 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (189) on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5161187