Tibipectinus Tshernyshev 2020
Creators: name: Tshernyshev, S. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Malachiidae
Tibipectinus

description: KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS TIBIPECTINUS OF AFRICA(males only)
1. Upperside black, pronotum with a weak metallic lustre. Legs yellow excepting brown external sides of posterior femora, antennae yellow with brown apical spots in 9th and 10th antennomeres; intermediate tibiae with protruding triangular edge above, thinly narrowed distally, and biappendiculate appendage, which is longer than the distal side of the tibia in front .......... T. claripes (Evers, 1990)
— Upperside of head, pronotum and elytra blue or green with metallic lustre ............................................................... 2
2. Upperside of head, pronotum and elytra with green, green-blue or green-bronze metallic lustre ................. 3
— Upperside of head, pronotum and elytra with deep blue or violet-blue metallic lustre ............................................ 5
3. Thin appendage in outer distal side of the intermediate segment parallel to tibia, distal side of tibia straight, not hollowed between appendage and inner lobe ............. 4
— Thin appendage in outer distal side of the intermediate segment perpendicular to tibia, strongly curve inwardly at apex, distal side of tibia strongly hollowed between appendage and inner lobe; basal four antennomeres dorsally, anterior tibiae (except at the base and apex) and the intermediate femora at the base yellow .......................... ......................................... T. fissipes (Champion, 1920)
4. 1st to 5th antennomeres, palpi, intermediate femora yellow at the base beneath, remaining parts dark brown; antennae strongly dilated, anterior tibiae with wide dilated plate above .......... T. dilaticornis (Champion, 1920)
— 1st to 6th antennomeres, palpi, all tibiae and femora in anterior and intermediate legs yellow, remaining parts black; antennae weakly dilated, anterior tibiae with narrow dilated plate .............. T. testaceicornis (Pic, 1914)
5. Antennae yellow, anterior tibiae yellow-brown, remaining parts of all legs dark brown; intermediate tibiae with thin dilated distally appendage, inner side of the tibia in front of the appendage not impressed ............................ ............................................ T. appendicifer (Pic, 1904)
— Basal antennomeres yellow in part, remaining black ... 6
6. 1st to 4th in part and base of 5th antennomeres yellow; anterior tibiae and intermediate femora yellow except brown apical part, remaining parts of all legs dark brown; intermediate tibiae stout and wide, with thin dilated distally appendage, inner side of the tibia in front of the appendage strongly impressed ........................................ ....................... T. caeruleoviolaceus Tshernyshev 2020
— 1st to 3rd in part and base of 4th antennomeres yellow; anterior tibiae at base and femora at apical part brown beneath, basal 2/3 of intermediate femora yellow, remaining part black; intermediate tibiae stout, but not wide, with thin slightly dilated distally appendage, inner side of the tibia in front of the appendage slightly impressed ......... ..................................... T. seawardi Tshernyshev, sp.n.
description: Published as part of Tshernyshev, S. E., 2021, A new species of soft-winged flower beetle of the genus Tibipectinus Tshernyshev, 2020 (Coleoptera: Malachiidae: Apalochrini) from South Africa, pp. 74-77 in Russian Entomological Journal 30 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.30.1.08, http://zenodo.org/record/10978393