Pegylis Erichson 1847
Creators: name: Sehnal, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Pegylis

description: Key to Pegylis species of group 1 (modified from Lacroix 2015)
1. Anterior angles of the pronotum rounded; metasternum with abundant pilosity.............................................................................. 2
- Anterior angles of the pronotum acute; metasternum sparsely pilose, without setae in middle ....................................................... 5
2. Elytra yellowish brown to golden yellow, with two longitudinal darker strips; clypeus with granular punctation, anterior margin of clypeus rounded; proximal tooth of protibia very short, rounded at apex; length 14 mm; Uganda .............................................. .............................................................................................................................................................. P. ugandensis Lacroix, 2008b
- Elytra dark brown, with multiple, poorly visible maculae; clypeus punctate and wrinkled, anterior edge of clypeus straight; proximal tooth of protibia elongate........................................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Pronotum regularly rounded, length 14 mm; Tanzania, Kenya ................................................................. P. rufolineata Kolbe, 1894
- Pronotum irregularly rounded ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
4. Antennal shaft (antennomeres 1–7 combined) of same length as club; elytral striae prominent....... P. majori Sehnal, new species
- Antennal shaft (antennomeres 1–7 combined) longer than club; elytral striae absent; length 15–18 mm; Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia ..................................................................................................................................................................... P. gestroi Brenske, 1895
5. Dark elytral maculae abundant over entire elytra; anterior margin of clypeus rounded; pronotum 2.4 times wider than long; metasternum densely covered with long setae; anterior margin of clypeus flat; elytral punctation not wrinkled; length 14–18 mm; Kenya, Tanzania .......................................................................................................................... P. conspurcata (Gerstaecker, 1867)
- Dark elytral maculae present only on sides; anterior margin of clypeus straight; pronotum 2.2 times wider than long; metasternum with short setae; anterior margin of clypeus upturned; elytral punctation strongly wrinkled with indicated striae; length 14–15 mm; Kenya .................................................................................................................................................... P. lineata Lacroix, 2008
description: Published as part of Sehnal, Richard, 2017, A new species of Pegylis Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Pegylini) from Ethiopia, pp. 423-426 in Zootaxa 4323 (3) on page 426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/919950