Diplopherusa Heller 1922
Creators: name: Murakami, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Diplopherusa

description: Key to the species of Diplopherusa   
(modified from CORPORAAL & VAN DER WIEL 1949)  
1 Elytra unicolour.............................................................................................................. 2  
– Elytra multicolour........................................................................................................... 5  
2 Elytra orange.................................................................................................................. 3  
– Elytra black.................................................................................................................... 4  
 3 PL/PW: 1.34–1.45; elytra with regular large deep punctation reaching to apex.......................................................................................................... D. ahsini Yang & Yang, 2013   
 – PL/PW: approximately 1.0; elytra with irregular fine and dense punctation on apical 2/5 of length.................................................................................. D. tumidipes Heller, 1922   
 4 Pronotum red with black anterior margin; elytral rows of punctures not reaching to apex.......................................................................................... D. rosti Schenkling, 1908   
 – Pronotum uniformly metallic blue; elytral rows of punctures reaching to apex........................................................................................................ D. delicatula Gerstmeier, 2015   
5 Elytra with white or yellow postmedian band................................................................ 6  
– Elytra without postmedian band..................................................................................... 8  
 6 Pronotum black with reddish basal margin....................... D. shibatai (Miyatake, 1965)   
– Pronotum reddish with black apical margin................................................................... 7  
 7 Elytra with round reddish markings near scutellum, the rest of elytra copper in color............................................................................................ D. magnificus Schenkling, 1908   
 – Elytra reddish in basal 1/4 of length and black in apical 3/4..................................................................................................................... D. transversalis Corporaal & Wiel, 1949   
 8 EyD/EyW: 1.95–2.20; punctation of pronotum rather dense; only apex of elytra black; tibiae metallic dark blue and stout....................................... D. kitamurai Nakane, 1989   
 – EyD/EyW: 2.37–2.40; punctation of pronotum rather sparse; elytra black in apical 1/2 of length; tibiae brownish black and slim..................................  D. yonaguniensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Murakami, Hiroyuki, 2016, Review of the generaDiplopherusa and Paracladiscus (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from Japan and Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 725-741 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (2) on page 736, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5307482