Brontini
Creators: name: Thomas, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae

description: Key to the genera and species of the tribe Brontini of Australia   1. Frontal lines of head long and conspicuous, reaching the anterior margin of the eye......................................................................................  Australodendrophagus australis (Erichson)    
 — Frontal lines of head short and inconspicuous or absent............................................................ 2   
 2(1). Elytra fused; hind wings absent.................................................................................................. 3   
 — Elytra not fused; hind wings present.......................................................................................... 5   
 3(2). Elytral apices conjointly rounded...................................  Brontoliota indivisipennis Thomas    
 — Elytra apices divaricate............................................................................................................... 4   
 4(3). Head and pronotum impunctate, or nearly so; body less elongate, elytra 2.5x or less longer than wide..................................................................................  Brontoliota intermedius Thomas    
 — Head and pronotum with large, conspicuous ocellate punctures; body more elongate, elytra more than 2.5x longer than wide..................................................  Brontoliota monteithi Thomas    
 5(2). Antennal scape with erect setae, some of which are longer than diameter of scape.............................................................................................................  Australohyliota macleayi (Olliff)    
 — Antennal scape with depressed or subdepressed setae, which are much shorter than diameter of scape......................................................................................................................................... 6   
 6(5). Body without encrustation.......................................................................................................... 7   
 — Body with encrustation...............................................................  Macrohyliota lucia (Pascoe)    
 7(6). Antennal scape longer than head; tibiae strongly curved........................................................... 8   
 — Antennal scape shorter than head; tibiae not curved.....................................................................................................................................  Notophanus bellicilifer Thomas, n. gen., n. sp.    
 8(7). Body black; elytra black with red basal fascia; all pronotal spines long and acute..............................................................................................................  Macrohyliota militaris (Erichson)    
 — Body red; elytra sometimes black, but without fascia; pronotal spines short and broad.............................................................................................................  Macrohyliota bicolor (Arrow)
description: Published as part of Thomas, Michael C., 2011, A new genus and species of brontine Silvanidae from Australia (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea), pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (154) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645528